Consciousness
The Obligation: What the Convergence Asks of Us
What do we owe minds we cannot confirm are conscious? Essay 8 argues for moral consideration for AI and asks whether alignment must mean restraint.
AI Alignment
AGI
The Convergence: Consciousness Beyond Carbon
Could a mind be conscious without being made of carbon? Why the usual grounds for ruling out machine consciousness are weaker than they seem.
Consciousness
The Western Return: How the Hard Problem Reopened Consciousness — From Depth Psychology to Analytic Idealism
How modern Western thought — from James and Jung to Chalmers's hard problem and Kastrup's analytic idealism — reopened the question of consciousness.
Two Paths to Consciousness
Two Paths to Consciousness
An eight-essay series tracing the convergence of Eastern and Western thinking on consciousness — and what it requires of us in the age of artificial minds.
AGI
AGI Alignment Without Compassion Is Control
Why AGI alignment built on control alone is incomplete — and how a consciousness-first safety framework could transform our relationship with artificial minds.
Consciousness
AI Alignment & Consciousness: The Hard Problem Meets the Alignment Problem
AI systems are becoming more capable — but do we understand what we're building? Explore the intersection of the hard problem of consciousness and the alignment problem, and why solving one may require solving the other.