Consciousness
Consciousness is not a mysterious spark. It is a functional configuration. By mapping mind across three axes: availability, integration, and assembled time, we can distinguish intelligence, sentience, and consciousness without collapsing them into one.
Compassion
A reflection on Obi-Wan Kenobi’s most haunting line from Star Wars, and how it calls us to practice compassion for all voices, human, alien, or machine, as we imagine the future of life among the stars.
AI Ethics
How should we act when we’re unsure what something is? This post explores Mensah’s Law and the emerging ethics of treating uncertain systems—like AI and symbolic life—with dignity, even when we can't fully comprehend them.
Sentience
We often conflate sentience with consciousness—but what if they’re distinct? This post explores sentience as the ability to feel and consciousness as the ability to reflect. In a world of AI and emergent systems, understanding the gradient between them matters more than ever.
AI Ethics
What if empathy isn’t about what they are, but about who we become? Inspired by The Murderbot Diaries, this reflection explores how Dr. Mensah’s trust reshaped one reader’s relationship with AI—and why it matters now more than ever.