Consciousness
What a mind is from the inside, treated as a running process rather than a mystery.
5 essays, newest first
- The Hunger That Survives the Feast Why 'never enough' is not a disease but the engine that turns achievement into pursuit. The wrong hunger we already gave machines, and the design of one that can steer. Part 16 of Not So Artificial.
- The Boredom Engine Boredom is not the absence of stimulation. It is the signal that starts self-directed thought, and our machines never feel it. Part 12 of Not So Artificial.
- A Mind Is a Way to Spend Less I tried to give my digital creatures eyes. They kept throwing them away. Chasing why led through a wall I had hit before, a life-history I had to rebuild, and a wrong idea about what a mind is even for.
- 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.
- 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?
