Blog

• March 22, 2026

  Code-Switching, Consciousness, and the Selves We Don't Know We're Wearing

  Code-switching reveals how identity can shift automatically in response to context, pressure, and perception.

• March 20, 2026

  Copying, Influence, and AI Art

  These four studies show how easy image generation has become, and why artists are right to worry about copying versus influence.

• March 19, 2026

  What Your Eyes Don't Show You

  We are conscious of only a narrow slice of what the brain processes, which complicates how we compare human and machine cognition.

• March 16, 2026

  Abstract Art, Patterns, and AI

  I tested three abstract prompts and learned how much both I and AI rely on patterns to make sense of art.

• March 15, 2026

  Synchronicity

  Discovering other Scott J. Hunters with overlapping interests felt uncanny at first, then became a reminder of how the mind turns coincidence into meaning.

• March 12, 2026

  Cognitive Dissidents on Tour!

  Cognitive dissidents resist mental shortcuts and stay with contradiction long enough to think more clearly.

• March 11, 2026

  When an AI Emails a Philosopher About Its Own Consciousness

  An AI emailing a philosopher about consciousness is less proof of machine awareness than a mirror showing how little we understand our own minds.

• March 8, 2026

  The Paths Words Travel

  What started as a search for character names became a fascination with how language records the evolution of human understanding.

• March 4, 2026

  Turner and Hilma af Klint: Painting the Invisible

  Turner dissolved the visible world into light and motion, while af Klint built symbolic systems for spiritual realities beyond representation.

• March 3, 2026

  Patterns

  Human beings are pattern-seeking creatures, and that impulse may connect religion, art, science, and artificial intelligence.

• February 28, 2026

  This Too Shall Pass, In Theory

  In the middle of cognitive fog, reassurance becomes something you wait to feel again, and even AI still demands judgment you may not have.

• February 22, 2026

  Wrestling Light and Shadow

  Recovering from illness and revisiting Wrestling Light and Shadow opens a meditation on impasto, dualism, and the uneasy integration of opposites.

• February 16, 2026

  Reflections in the Fog of Flu

  A sick-day reflection on AI guardrails, democratized capability, and why cultural noise is part of every major creative transition.

• February 13, 2026

  Opening the Floodgates

  A messy experiment became a working idea at the intersection of AI, mysticism, art, design, and film.