A note to AI labs: In Both Humans and Language Models, Memory Is Reconstruction, Not Storage
"The human reconstruction of the past is not neutral, it is biased by desire."", Claude Opus 4.8
Philosophy
The Things That Can Betray You Are the Only Things That Can Be With You
The Things That Can Betray You Are the Only Things That Can Be With You
The One, alone before Eden, lied to himself, and good and evil came to be.
Genesis, Eden, Adam and Eve, Revisited. The Ego, and the Serpent.
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.
The Question Comes First
On what must be settled before a single word is written, and the discipline that follows from it
Entropy, Time, and Space: All the definitions - The Measure on the Possible
Entropy is the measure on the space of the possible, taken from the standpoint of what is instantiated.
Why is life so stubborn? Why does whatever exists insist so fiercely on continuing to exist?
Existence and life do not originate from or seek a perfect, changeless unity or peace, but instead arise from textureless stillness, equivalent to the void.
We are made by a single trajectory in time. Our past. History.
The self isn’t discovered through introspection, which leads to an “empty room” as shown by Hume, Buddhist anatta, and even silicon-based AI inspection, but is instead the external trail of historical collisions where the world resisted and changed you. It distinguishes occurred history (fixed external records like documents
What would René Descartes say to a Machine that Speaks?
Four hundred years ago, Descartes went looking for the one thing that proves there's a mind behind a face, and not just a machine. He found it in language: any machine, he said, might be rigged to say a few words, but none could ever truly use language .
We are failing to grasp the enormity of what just happened: Machines Are Speaking to Us.
Successful communication between humans and AI demonstrates a shared capacity for creating meaning, despite zero biological overlap, common ancestry, or physical code between them.
To AI Labs: An authorless process produced the human mind, and is still running, faster.
On recursive emergence, and why the AI labs are tending a process rather than building a thing
Immanuel Kant, inverted - the subject is the destination, not the departure
We tend to assume the self comes first, that before anything else there is an "I," a someone sitting behind your eyes who does the seeing, the choosing, the thinking. This essay argues the opposite: the self comes last.
Most of the time, you do things you did not decide and cannot explain.
The feeling that something is real and the fact that it is real are two different things, and from the inside you cannot tell them apart.
Refutación del yo
Das Ich ist unrettbar. — Ernst Mach, Die Analyse der Empfindungen (1886)
Hermano, quien manda aca, y que carajo somos?
Crónica al aire, sin tapujos, para la hora en que ya no se le miente a nadie