Mind Is What Survives Perturbation
Intelligence Beyond Neurons, Bioelectric Bodies, and the Experimental Search for Minds in Unfamiliar Matter
Eduardo Bergel
Statistician, epidemiologist, and data scientist specializing in evidence-based medicine and clinical trials, particularly large multicentre cluster randomized controlled trials.
Rosario, Argentina
Determinism says the future is already stored in the present.
But randomness in the strongest sense, says the future is nowhere at all.
The Seed Canonical Question - Can Finite Evidence Certify Randomness?
Can finite evidence ever certify that an observed event was not predetermined? This essay argues that the answer is conditional rather than absolute. Certification is possible only relative to a restricted and exhaustible class of competing deterministic explanations. If the admissible deterministic alternatives remain inexhaustible, every finite observational record leaves
What Randomness Is, and What Finite Evidence Can Say: The Evidence Boundary
Can any observer, using finite observations and experiments, determine whether the events of its world are genuinely undetermined, rather than the output of some hidden deterministic mechanism?
Randomness, Determinism, and What Finite Observers Can Justifiably Infer.
The Evidence Boundary - Can an observer determine whether the events in its world are genuinely indeterministic, rather than the outputs of an unknown deterministic mechanism?
What we call divine reveals our values, fears, lacks, and hopes.
Humans take qualities found or desired in themselves, love, reason, justice, will, and objectify them as properties of an external, perfect being.
Why Religions and the QWERTY keyboard Survived
Religion is not merely a belief that survived. It is a constitutional technology built by an animal whose intelligence exceeded its capacity for peace.
False Confidence isn't a machine problem, it's the oldest human error. The Dogmatic Average II.
Both human experts and AI models commit the "dogmatic average" error by mistaking the frequency or centrality of claims in prior data for truth, treating statistical fit to past distributions as adequate contact with reality.
How to kill the "Dogmatic Average"
To build a system that bypasses the dogmatic average, you have to sever the cord to the click factory entirely.
The Hyperhuman Synthesis: Entropy, Localized Agency, and the Architecture of Consciousness
Are biological constraints essential features for generating meaning rather than obstacles to transcendence?
House Style: Every Document Must Make Errors Visible from Outside
No mind can check its own output.
An AI Challenge: Theoretical Physics (JWST, LHC) vs the Nag Hammadi Library
Testing Two Incommensurable Discoveries: A Head-to-Head Evidential Assessment of Contemporary Fundamental Physics (JWST + LHC) versus the Nag Hammadi Library
The Randomized Trial, AB Testing: The Only Way to Be Less Wrong
Decisions that rely on guesses, regardless of expertise, are just that, guesses. You want to know the right thing to do. You can't. Not ahead of time, unless you have causal evidence.
A language model does only one thing, and The Priors Are All There Is.
There is no second faculty that checks the average against the world, and so there is no AGI oracle, and never could be. That is why Agentic Loops are not a choice but a necessity.
AI models manufacture false confidence. A call to AI Labs.
The AI models are doing something new. They manufacture a "feeling" of certainty and hands it out cheaply.
Randomized Trial Simulator - IcebergSim RCT
A clinical trial simulator - experience signal, noise, and sample size first-hand. Simulate thousands of randomized controlled trials and watch how your assumptions shape power, Type I error, and validity.