Technogenesis, cognition beyond consciousness, and the symbiotic future of artificial intelligence.
In the cavernous halls of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation conferences, held intermittently between 1946 and 1953, a constellation of scientists gathered to birth the conceptual framework that would remake our…
Last Thursday, a Stanford sophomore submitted an essay about Virginia Woolf that her professor couldn't quite place. The prose shimmered with insight, the analysis felt fresh, yet something seemed off—not wrong,…
This article briefly reviews the core themes and critical insights from N. Katherine Hayles' work, particularly as they relate to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and our evolving understanding of intelligence itself. N.…
Note: This is chapter three of a longer work on AI scaling laws, multimodal AI and the progress of the knowledge in the 21st Century