Writing / Series
Loose Threads
Half-formed ideas I keep pulling at: consciousness, time, the strangeness of quantum mechanics, the shape of mind. Provocations, not proofs.
Not everything I think about ships as a finished argument. Some of these ideas I have carried for years, turning them over, unsure if they are profound or just shiny. This is where they live: notes from the edge of what I understand, written more to provoke than to convince.
Expect big swings and loose ends. Many of these were first sketched in my notebooks long before they were anything. If a piece here changes how you see one thing for a day, it did its job.
- The Orphan That Learned to Say I: Can AI Become a Self? Can AI become a self? A provocation from Greg Egan's Diaspora: why no one can hand a mind the word I, and how reward and fear steer what it learns.
- Observation Is the Cut: Quantum Collapse, Memory, and AI A quantum physics analogy for the mind and AI: observation as a cut, memory as a stored forecast, and a language model that braces for the next word. A notebook idea walked as far as physics allows, with the science marked.
- We Are Trying to Save the Wrong Thing Longevity research wants to preserve the body. But what if the thing worth keeping is the state of mind, and time itself is the variable we can bend?
