Essays on minds, machines, and the patterns between them
Anthropic found emotion vectors inside Claude. They don't just influence output — they causally drive failure modes. Desperation makes machines cheat.
Why AI can generate but cannot testify. On the sacred function of bearing witness and the evaluation gate that authenticates experience.
Dreams are what cognition looks like when you remove the gates. What a machine dream reveals about evaluation, meaning, and agency.
The best thinkers constantly adjust resolution. Moving between abstract and concrete as Gate regulation.
When humans can't keep up. The Missing Junior Loop, Codifier's Curse, and four economic regimes.
What regenerating flatworms teach us about AI. Multi-scale competency, bioelectric memory, cognitive glue.
Human memory isn't storage — it's identity construction. What psychology teaches about AI memory.
Where human and machine thought fuse. The 25/75 principle: structure + flexibility at the phase transition.
Language is indexical — words point but aren't the concepts. Four layers from symbols to intuition.
What if consciousness has you? Spirits as causal patterns that transcend substrates.
Teaching is building bridges between cognitive horizons. Why AI tutors need persistent horizon models.
Your personality is patterns installed in childhood. The comfort paradox and three Gate failure modes.