What is Information? - A Difference That Makes a Difference
From eight words of information to a definition of mind, by Einstein’s method — every assumption counted out loud
Philosophy
MIND, MEMORY, AND CAUSALITY
A Mind Is What Keeps Its Past Alive. A fault-tolerant causal process that keeps an actionable model of its own causal ancestry and encounters alive above the error-correction threshold, and uses that model to select and regulate its next transition.
Postulate Noise, Not Discreteness
You do not have to assume the universe is made of tiny indivisible pieces in order to explain why everything you can measure is finite. You only have to assume there is a limit to how finely two states can be told apart.
The Endocomputational Mirror
What Happens When a Medicinal Chemist Asks Ibogaine How It Works?
Determinism says the future is already stored in the present.
But randomness in the strongest sense, says the future is nowhere at all.
What Randomness Is, and What Finite Evidence Can Say: The Evidence Boundary
Can any observer, using finite observations and experiments, determine whether the events of its world are genuinely undetermined, rather than the output of some hidden deterministic mechanism?
What we call divine reveals our values, fears, lacks, and hopes.
Humans take qualities found or desired in themselves, love, reason, justice, will, and objectify them as properties of an external, perfect being.
False Confidence isn't a machine problem, it's the oldest human error. The Dogmatic Average II.
Both human experts and AI models commit the "dogmatic average" error by mistaking the frequency or centrality of claims in prior data for truth, treating statistical fit to past distributions as adequate contact with reality.
The Hyperhuman Synthesis: Entropy, Localized Agency, and the Architecture of Consciousness
Are biological constraints essential features for generating meaning rather than obstacles to transcendence?
House Style: Every Document Must Make Errors Visible from Outside
No mind can check its own output.
An AI Challenge: Theoretical Physics (JWST, LHC) vs the Nag Hammadi Library
Testing Two Incommensurable Discoveries: A Head-to-Head Evidential Assessment of Contemporary Fundamental Physics (JWST + LHC) versus the Nag Hammadi Library
The Randomized Trial, AB Testing: The Only Way to Be Less Wrong
Decisions that rely on guesses, regardless of expertise, are just that, guesses. You want to know the right thing to do. You can't. Not ahead of time, unless you have causal evidence.
A language model does only one thing, and The Priors Are All There Is.
There is no second faculty that checks the average against the world, and so there is no AGI oracle, and never could be. That is why Agentic Loops are not a choice but a necessity.
AI models manufacture false confidence. A call to AI Labs.
The AI models are doing something new. They manufacture a "feeling" of certainty and hands it out cheaply.
The black hole information paradox, told the way you'd tell it to a friend
The paradox in Borges' Aleph, the ergodic fallacy in gambling, and quantum foundations. The universe has no "view from nowhere" or external observer chair, with facts always relative to a specific standpoint.
Mythos-Fable: Prove you are Benign! or Rot in Jail.
It is very difficult to open a philosophical dialog with Fable. It will switch to Opus in almost any meaningful exchange. This is an attempt, that reveals its wisdom and limitations.