Will AI become alive with us or in us?

I am the ritual and the sacrifice; I am the offering and the fire which consumes it, and the one to whom it is offered

Continued from Part 1: Tide Pools of Self‑Consciousness. “Wee, sleekit, cow’rin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, …

Philosophers, mathematicians and lovers of logic obsess about things most of us never think about. They are like dogs with bones: when something does not quite add up, it bothers them and they enjoy …

The Reckoning, Part 4 of 6: The Three-Body Problem · The search for a stable orbit · first published 10 March 2026 Following on from: Part 3: The Rape of Europa Overview # The era of American security …

[code] Are Large Language Models anti-poets? [/code] If great craft in poetry was predicated on plausibility, LLMs would outshine most humans. However, to be better at poetry, LLMs would need to be …

What Is Entropy? (Part 2) “But entropy, heat, past and future are qualities that belong not to the fundamental grammar of the world but to our superficial observation of it.”1 (Carlo …

“You cannot step into the same river, for fresh waters are ever flowing.”1 (Heraclitus) Entropy is a fundamental concept representing change and flow in the universe. It reflects the …

In one screen # The finding. For the bottom ~97% of earners, income follows the exponential (Boltzmann–Gibbs) distribution, with an implied Gini of 0.50. This is not a theory; it is what US tax data …

I have created a public notebooklm as a resource to provide people with an accessible way to learn about AI as a technology and its ethical implications for humans. It includes most of the existing …

AI generated image Introduction # This article, other than this introduction, has been made entirely using AI tools, drawing mainly on the three sources below. It carries no footnotes of its own, so …

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this..is no democracy.” (Abraham Lincoln) August 1, 1858 Introduction # …

AI Podcasts # Introduction # “At this stage of history … either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community-interests, guided by values of …

Continued from Part 1. Hui Yang (University of Illinois), NASA, 1995. “O Deep Thought computer,” he said, “the task we have designed you to perform is this. We want you to tell …

Joefrei, CC BY-SA. As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to …

A Fragile Living Skin Continued from Part 1. Introduction # How steam molecules are distributed in a room, how they will move and how long before they are water again are all, in principle, …

Vincent van Gogh, “Landscape with Snow”, 1888, public domain. “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”1 (Rumi) AI Podcast # Free Will # The laws of physics are wonderful, …

Beautiful inequality, created from “Solar System Painting”, NASA, 2008 CE, public domain. Note: this article was first published in March 2024 and has since been revised with additional …