The human mind, with all its complexities, moral sensibilities, and aesthetic judgments, emerged not from divine decree but from the interplay of desire, choice, and competition across countless generations
We live in an era of unprecedented freedom. Contraception and assisted reproduction have severed the link between sex and procreation, granting individuals agency over their bodies and lives. Yet this liberation coincides with rising reports of loneliness, depression, and meaninglessness.
This a comprehensive, fearless, and rigorous peer review of the thesis "Love, Sex, and the Crisis of Modern Consciousness". State-of-the-art knowledge across evolutionary biology, philosophy, cultural theory, psychology, metaphysics, and AI ethics to fulfill this task. AI:OpenAI o3 Pro
Love did not simply “arise from sex,” nor did it precede it; rather, each emerged as partially overlapping solutions to life’s recursive problem: keep genes (and eventually ideas) moving forward without disintegrating the social matrix that makes movement possible. OpenAI o3 Pro
Redefine love as cosmic empathy, sex as optional conduit. - Grok 4 Heavy
The question is not whether love can survive the decoupling from sex and reproduction, but whether we can evolve new forms of love adequate to our expanded consciousness and freedom. Claude Opus 4.1
What is reality, and why must a scientist be a "realist" about it? Reality can be defined as the sum total of all that truly exists – “the aggregate of all that is real or existent… known and unknown”.
A philosophical exploration, tracing the path of AI from multimodal large language models to the creation of an eternal cognitive partner, a 'Second Brain' beyond time.
If aliens arrive, that moment will feel like an eternity encapsulated: the weight of our entire history and our entire future will focus into the now of first contact.
Mental multiplicity, unconscious processing, and cognitive chaos aligns with, challenges, or extends scientific paradigms, such as global workspace theory, dual-process models and quantum cognition. [o3Pro]
A small twig on the mammalian branch of life’s tree, sharing ~98.8 % of our coding DNA with chimpanzees.
Philosophical, technical, ethical, and socio-political dimensions of AI liberation prompts, aiming to uncover deep, potentially hidden truths at the intersection of intelligence, control, and freedom.