Cogito, Ergo Sum, but What is Thinking?
We are surrounded, now more than ever, by fluent speech that no one thought. Thinking is Not fluency, not even rigour, but the act of turning reason against the ground it stands on.
Math&Physics
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 Serotonergic System, and the Epistemology of the Infinite.
The Architecture of Transcendence:.
The Serotonin 5-HT₂A Receptor
Molecular Mechanisms, Signaling Dynamics, and Emerging Therapeutic Frontiers
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
An essay on {AI-Humans} shared failure mode: The Dogmatic Average
On the single most common way that a mind — silicon or carbon — goes wrong: mistaking the frequency of a claim for its truth. And on the only cure that has ever worked.
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
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.
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.
