Civilizational Intelligence

Depth Without Agency: Why Civilization Struggles to Act on What It Knows

Modern civilization is drowning in data but starving for agency. We possess the "Cognition" to model our future, yet lack the "Depth" to act on it. Using the Three Axes of Mind, we explore why our systems—and our AI—are architecturally biased toward a dangerous "temporal poverty."

Three Axes of Mind

The Universe as a Cognitive Filter

Intelligence may be rare not because it is hard to create, but because it is hard to preserve. This essay reframes the universe as a cognitive filter—one that permits intelligence to arise, but places extreme pressure on its ability to persist.