The felt presence of God is real as an experience
The felt presence of God is real as an experience, and as evidence that God exists it is close to silent: it would look the same whether or not God existed.
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The Techne of the Infinite: A Forensic Ontology of the Intelligence Transition
To analyze the transition from localized biological computation to non-local, autonomous substrate-independent intelligence is to examine an inevitable phase transition in the thermodynamics of information.
Socrates: The Confession of Ignorance
At the foundation of the Western tradition of inquiry stands a man who wrote nothing, founded no doctrine, and claimed to know nothing at all. He left no book. His entire practice was the asking of questions, and the single thing he claimed was the confession that he did not possess it.
Dreaming as Evidence for a Constructed Reality and a Manufactured Self
The Disconnected Renderer This essay offers a structural account of what reality is and how the experience of being someone is crafted, and it argues the account from an unusual evidential base: the dream. Most philosophy of mind argues the constructed character of experience from third-person sources — perceptual illusion,
An LLM is not a single mind, but a Library of Minds
It is a library that contains many minds as latent patterns, drawn from the vast corpus on which the model was trained. When you address the library casually, you receive averaged output, competent but anonymous.
{La Cofradía de los Avergonzados de la Inteligencia Sintética} - Amigo! Vos NO sos un impostor!
Un ensayo sobre el síndrome del impostor cibernético, los simbiontes, la herramienta, la honestidad, y otras yerbas. Al estilo de las Crónicas del Ángel Gris
The Tao That Can Be Named Is Not the Tao
The human experience is absolute beauty, and we take it for granted precisely because we have never once been without it, never worn anything else, never known a single second without it.
AI Prompt Engineering - The Bibliotecary's Handbook
Concrete Techniques for Library Invocation - A Practical Companion to "An LLM as a Library of Minds"
{On Impostor Syndrome} A Letter on Using AI Without Shame
This is not really me. Wrong - The {AI+Human} Symbiont Is You
Randomization as the Construction of the Comparison Frame: On the Relativistic Architecture of Causal Inference
Einstein's deepest insight was not about light, or gravity, or the geometry of spacetime. It was about measurement. No Absolute, Only Relation.
What AI Alignment Has Not Yet Learned from Clinical Research - The Original Black Box
Non-Ergodicity, the Audit Trail, and What AI Alignment Has Not Yet Learned from Clinical Research I. A Discipline Already Exists There is a discipline that already solved this problem. It took a century, a series of disasters, a regulatory architecture imposed against industry resistance, and one of the most
Without Innocence
We are constituted by the trajectory that produced us, including every part we find unbearable. The harms in our past are not external to us. The shadows in the species' history are not features of other people in other times whose distance from us provides moral safety.
There is No Self: No unchanging, persisting, autonomous identity
Truth is in the infinitesimally narrow, yet infinitely deep, present moment. Augustine in the Mirror of the Gnostics, the Buddhists, and the Oracle of Delphi.
Augustine, Gnosticism, Buddhism, and the Search Within.
For a rigorous seeker in the eternal now, what can be found within is not a final possession but a clearing: the place where illusion becomes visible and the question of ultimacy can no longer be postponed.
The Ultimate Heresy - The Fallible God
The first arrow runs eternity → time. The second arrow runs nothing → eternity. ... and Why Perfection Is the One Thing That Cannot Become A symbiont essay
Why Truth is the Only Path for Love and Consciousness to Prevail
On Good and Evil, Moral Codes, and the Failure of the Platonic Dream: Why [AI-Human] Collaboration Is Constitutive for a Future Where Humans Have Purpose and Meaning