The Causal Fabric of Reality: Redefining Existence Beyond Material Tangibility

What's more real, your arm or a dream? Is our definition of "real" flawed?

The Chinese Room Fallacy and Eliminative Materialism: What Does It Mean to 'Understand'?

Many argue that AI lacks true understanding, but I contend that these conclusions stem from a flawed, anthropocentric framework. While I do not claim that AI possesses phenomenological consciousness, I challenge the notion that our definition of 'understanding' is correct. I present a rebuttal of Searle's Chinese Room argument and its implications for consciousness and cognition.

Hypergraphs, Reinforcement Learning, and Consciousness

Exploring how hypergraphs and reinforcement learning principles might explain the emergence of consciousness and abstract thought.

The Mind Beyond the Senses: What Is 'Thinking'?, Axiomatic Thought and Its Independence from Perception

An exploration of how thinking transcends sensory experience and operates on abstract principles.

Artificial Intelligence Is Not Yet Smart, But It's Fast

The limits of computational intelligence in a stochastic reality

Emotions Aren't What We Think They Are

Reconceptualizing emotions as computational heuristics that help navigate complexity under bounded rationality, from bacteria to human recursive experience.

Existential Predictions for 2028

Specific predictions about how narrow AI will disrupt society by 2028, and what won't happen despite the hype. From biometric security collapse to AI agent black markets.

A Very Short Essay: Qualia Is Just Mechanistic Variance, The Hard Problem Of Anthropocentric Bias

A reframing of consciousness and subjective experience through mechanistic principles.

What Bees Know That We Don't

On the spectrum of understanding: from bees' implicit geometry to the subconscious roots of human cognition.

A Short Essay: You Can't Consciously Fine-Tune Your Neurons

Exploring how our beliefs form an interconnected web that can't be selectively modified, as cognitive processes largely operate beneath conscious control.

The Generality-Observability Principle: A Gödelian Two-Criterion Model for Axiom Reliability

A structured epistemic framework for assessing the reliability of belief systems and frameworks

The Reverse Turing Test: Can AI Tell When We're Lying?

Examining AI's fundamental inability to detect human deception and why emotional heuristics play a crucial role in true intelligence.

The Next 100 Years of Human Evolution: The Existential Revolution

Exploring humanity's approaching existential crisis as traditional meaning structures collapse.

Is Mathematics the Map and the Territory?

An exploration of whether mathematics approximates reality, or is reality itself.

Human Intelligence Likely Exists With No Privileged Level of Causation

Why abstracting neural networks alone won't achieve AGI - the crucial roles of embodiment, social interaction, and hypergraph structures in general intelligence.

Some Meta-Puzzles to Get You Thinking

A collection of puzzles exploring infinity, probability, and logic.

Irrationality of Religion and Anthropocentric Bias

An analysis of how religious literalism conflicts with rational thinking and evidence-based reasoning.

Why Not Infinity, Anthropocentric Fallacy of Fundamental Intentionality, & Anthropomorphic Gravity

Examining our biases in attributing intentionality to fundamental forces and the concept of infinity.

Critical Thinking Should Be Taught Like Mathematics and English

Exploring how critical thinking education is our most crucial defense against existential threats and should be taught as early and rigorously as core subjects.

The Ego Test

A framework for evaluating one's ability to update beliefs and overcome cognitive biases.

The Existential Poetry of Reality's Apathy

An exploration of reality's fundamental indifference to human desires, meaning, and justice.

The Things We Do For Attention

Examining how childhood experiences shape our lifelong pursuit of validation and attention.

The Anthropomorphic Bias In Robotics and Thinking Machines

Examining how our obsession with humanoid robots and anthropomorphic AI overlooks the fundamental questions of intelligence and movement.

You Don't Need a Table to Eat

A meditation on how people cling to comfortable belief structures rather than crafting their own or accepting uncertainty.

A Very Short Essay: Why Reading Is Essential

The critical importance of reading in developing abstract thinking and rational judgment.

A Short Essay: How Self-Organising Systems Abstract 'Meaning'

Understanding how complex systems naturally develop and assign meaning to meaningless structures.

Uncertainty and the Shape of Morality

Is morality objective, subjective, or can it be both? Exploring how we anthropomorphise uncertainty to find moral grounding within human systems.

Practical Certainty vs. Theoretical Uncertainty in Science and Theology

Exploring the difference between practical and theoretical certainty.

A Very Short Essay: The Myth of Perfect Rationality

Examining whether perfect rationality is possible and the challenge of recognizing our emotion-based beliefs.

A Very Short Essay: Intuitive vs Counterintuitive Intelligence

Why AI research must embrace counterintuitive biology and physics to achieve true general intelligence.

Modern Arguments For Why Artificial Intelligence Can't Have Emotions

Why current AI systems lack the embodied physiology, evolutionary drives, affective memory, and conscious experience necessary for genuine emotions.

Substrate Obviously Matters, Artificial Intelligence Probably Won't Have A Sense of Self Anytime Soon

Why the physical implementation of AI systems matters for phenomonological consciousness.

Is Praying Delusional, Or Does It Have A Functional Benefit?

A secular analysis of prayer's psychological and practical benefits.

A Very Short Essay: Not All Progress Is Acceleration

A critique of AI: Sometimes slow is beautiful.

Gödel, Epistemic Limits, and the Logical Constraints on God

Examining the logical impossibilities in traditional concepts of an omnipotent deity, and whether there is such thing as absolute truth.

Do I Believe in a God?

A short exploration of whether religious concepts of God are redundant rather than merely logically flawed.

A Very Short Essay: There Is No Intrinsic 'You', Living Without the Social Lanyard

Exploring how our identities are shaped by social roles rather than any intrinsic self.

A Very Short Essay: The Statistical Universe

How statistical principles might underlie the fundamental nature of reality.

The Paradox of Personal Experiences

Why personal experiences can be misleading in understanding objective reality.

The Understanding Paradox: How Can We Deny AI Understanding When We Don't Understand Understanding?

Exploring the paradox of demanding AI demonstrate understanding while lacking a complete theory of human cognition.

Physics Has Barely Started, Can We Know If Reality Is Algorithmic?

Exploring whether reality is fundamentally algorithmic or if our computational models are simply a reflection of how our minds work.

Survival Rationality vs Abstract Rationality

The distinction between evolutionary survival-based thinking and higher-order abstract reasoning.

The Problem With Modern Day Idolism

How contemporary society creates and worships new forms of idols.

An Exercise to Think Critically

Practical exercises for developing stronger critical thinking skills.

The Infinite Regress of Understanding: Why True Understanding Is Impossible

Examining how expertise and understanding can exist without complete knowledge of underlying mechanisms.

The Paradox of Certainty

Is Irrationality Beneficial?

Everything Is "Nothing"

Exploring how structured "nothing" gives rise to what we perceive as "something" and the philosophical implications of this physical understanding.

A Very Short Essay: Do Written Laws Fail to Rewrite Deep-Seated Biases?

Examining how legal progress often fails to match cultural evolution, as internalised beliefs and collective biases persist despite institutional changes.

Facing Uncertainty

Asking "why" requires facing existential uncertainty.

Certainty Is a Virus In A Digital World

A short exploration of how our need for certainty is a virus in a digital world.

Fractals of Human Knowledge

Reflecting on how close we are to historical figures and how we're living at the very beginning of accessible knowledge.

The Interconnected Tree of Knowledge

Exploring how human knowledge domains form a hierarchical structure where each field abstracts from the one below, and why understanding these connections is essential for solving complex problems.

A Short Essay: The AGI Hype: Why We Won't See Artificial General Intelligence by 2030

Examining why AGI is not just a computer science problem but requires biology and physics, and why LLMs alone won't achieve general intelligence.

A Very Short Essay: What is Artificial Intelligence?

A concise exploration of what artificial intelligence really means, why the definition is elusive, and why AI is a gradient, not a binary concept.

Zero To One: A Conceptual Intro To Deep Learning In Python

A comprehensive introduction to the mathematics and fundamentals of deep learning, including linear algebra, calculus, neural networks, and implementation details in Python.

The Language and Philosophy of Linear Algebra

An exploration of linear algebra as both a mathematical language and a philosophical framework for understanding transformations, spaces, and relationships.

Principles of Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

A technical introduction to multi-agent reinforcement learning, covering foundations, game theory, and advanced RL algorithms.