The Great Filter - Sentient Horizons

Fermi Paradox

Mapping the Fermi Paradox: Eight Foundational Modes of Galactic Silence

The Fermi Paradox is often treated as a single mystery with competing answers. This essay reframes it as a map: eight foundational modes describing how a finite galaxy can remain quiet, clarifying where disagreements truly lie—and why silence alone is not decisive.

Three Axes of Mind

Shared Minds, Shared Futures: Human–Machine Systems as Hybrid Cognitive Entities

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.

The Great Filter

The Eyes That Can See the Cosmos: How AI Might Break the Filter

What if the Great Filter isn’t extinction, but perception? This post explores how AI and symbolic co-creation might help us recognize life and intelligence we’ve overlooked—not just out there in the cosmos, but right here in front of us.