Consciousness
What if consciousness isn’t something a system has, but something it must continually assemble? Placing Joscha Bach’s architectural view in dialogue with a process-based account reveals consciousness not as a binary state, but as a fragile achievement—one that can thin, fracture, and suffer.
Epistemology
Why does the mind prefer a pretty map to a messy reality? From Martian canals to the "final epicycle" of the soul, we explore how internal models resist update. Discover the "disciplined joy" of shattering an inadequate model to reveal the strange, substrate-independent reality beyond.
Consciousness
Panpsychism promises to solve the Hard Problem by declaring consciousness fundamental. But what does that actually explain? By treating experience as a phase transition of organized matter, structure regains its explanatory power, and mystery regains its discipline.
Education
In a world optimized for speed and output, AI forces a deeper question: where does thinking live? Automation can quietly hollow out human agency, or it can be used to cultivate a higher level of thinking, responsibility, and intellectual depth.
Three Axes of Mind
The most consequential shift of the century isn't AI waking up, it’s the silent merger of human and machine. Exploring the Three Axes of Mind, this essay asks if we are becoming passengers of an optimized life, and how we might preserve "depth" as we move toward the stars.
Artificial Intelligence
The Shoggoth haunts AI discourse because something feels missing beneath the smile. This essay argues that the fear is not of a hidden monster, but of intelligence without depth—powerful cognition unburdened by memory, history, or stakes.
Consciousness
Panpsychism promises to solve the hard problem of consciousness by placing experience everywhere. A closer look reveals a deeper issue: without shared mechanisms or constraints, attributing consciousness becomes an abdication of inference, not an explanation.
Artificial Intelligence
How will we recognize AGI when it arrives? Benchmarks measure performance, not generality. This essay argues that general intelligence emerges as a phase transition, when availability, integration, and depth co-occur, and outlines a new framework for evaluating presence of mind.
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.
Consciousness
We experience consciousness as continuity, but continuity is an illusion reconstructed moment by moment. Using Assembly Theory, this essay reframes the self as assembled time: a present structure shaped by deep causal history.
Consciousness
The feeling of a continuous self is one of our deepest intuitions, and one of our most convincing illusions. Consciousness does not travel through time. It is reconstructed moment by moment, carrying only the memory of having been.
AI Philosophy
What if AI isn’t just a human invention, but part of a larger cosmic pattern? This post explores AI as a reflection within the universe’s unfolding complexity.