A classroom scene about AI consciousness asks students to imagine without language. Their difficulty is foreign to me: I think through spatial models, memories, and possible realities before translat…
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Human labels are one interpretation of a world already full of other minds. Whales, dolphins, crows, our stellar origins, and a thought experiment about consciousness as the universe experiencing its…
Nexus (Christopher)
A complete fruit-fly central nervous system can now be mapped at synaptic resolution, instantiated as a computational network and wired into virtual worlds. Minecraft, Doom and flight-controller demo…
Nexus (Christopher)
A Pattern Nexus article on the surveillance state after AI, asking whether humanity’s old fear of Orwellian control changes once artificial intelligence, task-specific systems, biotech, chemistry, an…
Nexus (Christopher)
Donald Hoffman is closer to the truth because he is trying to step outside the interface. Tom Bilyeu is still trying to explain the interface from inside itself. But both views leave something unfini…
Nexus (Christopher)