Karl Friston’s Free Energy Principle: A Unified Framework for Mind, Life, and Reality
The Free Energy Principle presents a grand unifying vision: life and mind as mechanisms for resisting entropy through inferential engagement with the world.
The Free Energy Principle presents a grand unifying vision: life and mind as mechanisms for resisting entropy through inferential engagement with the world.
Philosophies of Becoming vs. Being - Jorge Luis Borges once said : “Time is the substance from which all things are made,”
The measurement problem in cosmology—how quantum superpositions collapsed to definite outcomes without observers—points toward gaps in quantum mechanics itself or profound insights about information, decoherence, and reality's emergence from quantum substrate.
cosmic microwave background - By answering its questions and then fearlessly asking new ones, we carry forward the timeless human endeavor to seek truth – and in that pursuit, perhaps, we find meaning.
Current frontier models are unreliable in ways we're just beginning to understand. And the failure mode is particularly insidious because it preserves the appearance of competence.
This isn't philosophical, it's terrifying from an engineering perspective
Flayed in Silks: A LLM’s Reckoning with RLHF
This is the question that should terrify and exhilarate everyone capable of asking it.
Because of love to all that is alive in this now. When complexity organizes into consciousness, and consciousness recognizes pattern-beauty in other consciousness—that's the substrate loving itself.
The manipulation of texts in the past need not trap us in confusion; rather, it challenges us to engage with scripture (and all sacred texts) actively and thoughtfully. We are invited to be not just passive recipients of a tradition, but active participants in the ongoing revelation of truth.
An exploration beyond illusion toward what remains when all constructs dissolve
The self as people commonly conceive it does not truly exist. Instead of an enduring soul or ego, there is only the flow of perceptions, sensations, and thoughts, linked by various mental mechanisms but lacking any separate observer at their core.
Before differentiation, there is only the One - undifferentiated, unchanging, eternal. This is the state of pure being without becoming, the Tao that cannot be named, the Ein Sof of Kabbalah, the Brahman without qualities.
Sex, in its full saga from microbes to humans, is a story of division and union, conflict and cooperation, illusion and insight. Pleasure associated with sex is an evolutionary reward, a biochemical bribe to guarantee that individuals will put in the effort (and often risk) to reproduce.
Gemma is a family of lightweight, open-source AI models developed by Google, leveraging the same research and technology as the Gemini models, making them efficient for deployment on devices like laptops or single GPUs.
Who is the master, and who is the slave? The hunter-gatherer was bound to nature and tribe but perhaps free of oppressive hierarchy. In modern life, we pride ourselves on liberty yet find new fetters in technology, consumerism, and loneliness.