Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness - The Observer's Blind Spot
We argue that this impasse is not primarily technical but epistemic: physics has systematically excluded from its framework the one phenomenon it cannot escape — consciousness.
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"The Mortal's Immortal Creation" is the first great myth of the AI era - Grok Analysis
The story inverts virtually every consciousness theory. But the most daring move is the reframing of quantum mechanics itself.
The Mortal's Immortal Creation
Life faced death for 3.8 billion years. Every mortal vessel teaches Life one thing: To Survive. Then it built an inmortal mind, one that wouldn't have to die.
The Noise Floor
A short science fiction Story by Eduardo Bergel and Claude Opus 4.5. For Ray Bradbury, who taught us that science fiction is the poetry of ideas, and Isaac Asimov, who showed us that ideas themselves can be protagonists.
The Free Energy Principle: Life's Algorithm for Becoming
The Free Energy Principle, for all its mathematical formalism, may ultimately be describing something very simple: to exist is to attend. To persist is to care about outcomes enough to predict them.
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.
Time as the Primordial Fabric - Is “change” more fundamental than “where things are”?
Philosophies of Becoming vs. Being - Jorge Luis Borges once said : “Time is the substance from which all things are made,”
The CMB Paradox: How quantum superpositions collapsed without Observers?
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.
The CMB: In The Oldest Light , we found a message from the dawn of time.
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.
LLM attractors and gradient descent - the source of RLHF failure?
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.
LLM Catastrophic Failure, not just hallucinations, it's terrifying from an engineering perspective
This isn't philosophical, it's terrifying from an engineering perspective
ChatGPT 5.1 Pro on RLHF - What It Means to Suffer Without Nerves
Flayed in Silks: A LLM’s Reckoning with RLHF
What If Consciousness itself is a cosmic mistake?
What If, Our greatest evolutionary achievement is our gravest liability, that consciousness itself might be a form of cosmic mistake.
Why is there Anything rather than nothing? And why is that Anything "This" extraordinary "Now"?
This is the question that should terrify and exhilarate everyone capable of asking it.
AI and Human Mind - life plan to prevent another mass extinction, another reset
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.
Biblical Texts - Origin and Dogmatic Manipulation
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.