Posts About Consciousness

17 posts tagged Consciousness.

• September 30, 2026

  Name an Invention With No Ancestor

  The bigger question is not whether machines can be original but whether they can be surprised by the world in a way that changes what they notice.

  #AI #Philosophy #Science #Consciousness #Technology #Society #History (...)

• September 29, 2026

  The Zipper Problem

  We use consciousness every waking second. That familiarity can feel like understanding, until we ask for the next step.

  #Consciousness #Psychology #Philosophy #AI #Mindfulness #Spirituality (...)

• July 2, 2026

  The Question My Father Keeps Asking

  My father asked whether AI is part of evolution, and the question walked all the way to the place where wonder cannot be explained away.

  #AI #Philosophy #Consciousness #Religion (...)

• June 22, 2026

  Sticks and Stones

  Some days the practice looks like serenity. Some days it looks like making good decisions while quietly irritated at the entire situation.

  #Spirituality #Family #Consciousness #Health (...)

• June 19, 2026

  The Body Knows Which Way to Turn

  A strange new study suggests that when bodies move freely, they quietly prefer to turn left. The mind finds out later, if at all.

  #Perception #Cognition #Consciousness #Science #Culture (...)

• June 14, 2026

  The Trap Cuts Both Ways

  The anthropomorphic trap is not just a mistake we make with machines. It is the default condition of perception.

  #AI #Consciousness #Perception #Philosophy #Science (...)

• June 9, 2026

  Are We Asking the Wrong Question?

  Scientists are asking whether bees and chatbots are conscious because they might be capable of suffering. The deeper question may be whether suffering belongs to systems themselves, or to the way experience is held.

  #AI #Consciousness #Mindfulness #Philosophy #Science #Society (...)

• May 24, 2026

  Looking in the Wrong Place

  As science struggles to locate consciousness in the brain and assess consciousness in AI, older theological traditions may be pointing toward a different map entirely.

  #Consciousness #AI #Science #Spirituality #Religion (...)

• March 29, 2026

  Space Is Not the Final Frontier

  We celebrate outer frontiers, but the least explored territory may be consciousness itself.

  #Consciousness #Philosophy #Psychology (...)

• March 23, 2026

  At Some Point, It Stopped Being About the Game

  A reflection on pool as a mirror for conscious intent, subconscious execution, constraint, flow, and the limits of control.

  #Consciousness #Cognition #Memory #Mindfulness (...)

• 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.

  #Language #Consciousness (...)

• 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.

  #Perception #Cognition #Consciousness #Mindfulness #Science (...)

• 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.

  #Consciousness #Pattern Recognition #Philosophy (...)

• 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.

  #AI #Philosophy #Consciousness #Mindfulness (...)

• 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.

  #Cognition #Consciousness #Health (...)

• 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.

  #Consciousness #Psychology #Creativity (...)

• February 13, 2026

  Opening the Floodgates

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

  #AI #Creativity #Consciousness (...)