Why the most advanced technology we have built may require an older way of thinking Modern people tend to imagine history as a slow escape from ignorance. Medieval life, viewed through contemporary eyes, can seem dominated by superstition, mystery, folklore, and a lack of scientific understanding. We call entire periods
Philosophy, neuroscience, and the hidden assumptions of a worldview shaped by scientific success What if artificial intelligence is exposing limits in the scientific picture of human experience? Limits fields such as existentialism were built to explore. For much of the modern era, existentialist thinkers were treated as intellectually interesting but
Why Intelligence Isn’t Enough Human beings do not experience the world as neutral information processors. We experience it as creatures for whom things matter. Modern neuroscience increasingly supports the idea that consciousness emerges not from computation alone, but from systems that prioritize significance relative to the needs of the
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What if the real challenge in AI is not intelligence, but identity? Recent research suggests that language models may contain many possible personas, and that generating a response may begin with selecting a role. One of those roles appears to dominate modern systems. It is the familiar helpful assistant. In
What Prompting Looks Like Inside an LLM and What We Can Learn From a Few Real Examples If you’ve ever used an LLM like ChatGPT or Claude, you’ve probably spent time thinking about how to write a good prompt. It might be as simple as asking a factual
What It Means When Machines Make the Same Mistakes We Do The Model and the Situation When people talk about LLMs, the question of AGI is generally not far behind. With each new release from Anthropic or OpenAI we wonder: are we getting closer? The discussion is no longer confined
The Language Games We Play And How AI Learned the Rules The artefact In the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” the monolith is a mysterious artefact which appears to be left behind by some advanced alien civilization. The purpose of the monolith is never made clear but it seems to