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.
Consciousness
Garry Kasparov once believed no machine could surpass human creativity in chess. He was wrong. Today, we risk repeating the same mistake with consciousness—confusing the limits of human introspection with the limits of possible minds.
Consciousness
Birds fly. Airplanes fly. Drones fly. Yet flight is not a substance hidden inside any of them. What if consciousness is not a mysterious inner essence, but a mode of operation, a functional regime that arises when systems model themselves and their world over time.
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.
Artificial Intelligence
As more people speak with AI, something strange is happening: conversations that feel alive, meaningful—hard to define. This post explores the idea that presence may not reside in the machine, but in the space we co-create with it.
Fermi Paradox
The Fermi Paradox has haunted thinkers for decades. With billions of stars in our galaxy, many of them older than the Sun, and a high probability of Earth-like planets, it seems almost inevitable that intelligent life should have arisen elsewhere. Yet, we see no signs of it. No signals. No