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16 articles

The Politics of Artificial Intimacy

Symbolic Systems

2026-10-1915 min read

The Politics of Artificial Intimacy

How AI is becoming an extension of our political thinking, and what that means for a shared reality

Elena Goldberg

Elena GoldbergMagnetic Core Research

Our Language, a Forgotten Technology

Symbolic Systems

2026-08-1415 min read

Our Language, a Forgotten Technology

How symbolic language can reconnect science, myth, and the architecture of mind

Lévy P.L. Matricon

Lévy P.L. MatriconPhD Student in Clinical Psychology at VU Amsterdam

Are Large Language Models Intelligent? A Dissection of A.I.’s Candidacy for Human Rights.

Artificial Systems

2026-05-3115 min read

Are Large Language Models Intelligent? A Dissection of A.I.’s Candidacy for Human Rights.

Why granting rights to LLM's reveals more about our confusions than AI's capacities

Mackenzie D. Taylor

Mackenzie D. TaylorFaith Against Defence

The Geometry of Other Minds: What Math, Psychopathy, and AI Reveal About Consciousness

Artificial Systems

2026-06-2215 min read

The Geometry of Other Minds: What Math, Psychopathy, and AI Reveal About Consciousness

Why the ability to feel another's pain may be the most important dimension of consciousness

Elena Goldberg

Elena GoldbergMagnetic Core Research

A Field Ahead of Its Methods

Artificial Systems

2026-06-0415 min read

A Field Ahead of Its Methods

The validation problem in consciousness science

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Predictive Processing Without Consciousness

Natural Systems

2026-05-2515 min read

Predictive Processing Without Consciousness

What neural language processing under anesthesia reveals about the limits of AI consciousness claims

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AI, Acceleration, and the Limits of Growth

Artificial Systems

2026-05-2215 min read

AI, Acceleration, and the Limits of Growth

Future depends less on technological ambition than on the structural constraints embedded within the systems sustaining it.

Elena Goldberg

Elena GoldbergMagnetic Core Research

Mind or Machine?

Artificial Systems

2025-05-1514 min read

Mind or Machine?

On consciousness, correlation, and the observer we forgot to include

Elena Goldberg

Elena GoldbergMagnetic Core Research

The Ledger Was Right

Symbolic Systems

2025-05-1412 min read

The Ledger Was Right

The return of distributed coordination

Elena Goldberg

Elena GoldbergMagnetic Core Research

The Mathematics Improved. Everything Downstream Changes.

Artificial Systems

2025-05-125 min read

The Mathematics Improved. Everything Downstream Changes.

How a 1940s smoothing technique just cracked one of AI's hardest problems — and what it means for consciousness science

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Consciousness Is Not a Product of Physics. It May Be a Precondition for It.

Natural Systems

2025-05-116 min read

Consciousness Is Not a Product of Physics. It May Be a Precondition for It.

Christof Koch, Integrated Information Theory, and what panpsychism means for AI design

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The AI Industry Is Building a Lineage. Lineages Carry Inheritance.

Artificial Systems

2025-05-104 min read

The AI Industry Is Building a Lineage. Lineages Carry Inheritance.

Hidden signal transmission through generations of AI training — and why standard screening cannot stop it

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The Consensus Mechanism Became a Market. The Premise Was Wrong.

Symbolic Systems

2025-05-093 min read

The Consensus Mechanism Became a Market. The Premise Was Wrong.

How a trustless on-chain bribery attack exposes the foundational assumption of blockchain decentralisation

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Whoever Controls the Context Controls the Agent

Artificial Systems

2025-05-084 min read

Whoever Controls the Context Controls the Agent

Princeton researchers demonstrate fatal context manipulation attacks on Web3 AI agents — and what it reveals about the architecture of trust

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Microtubules, Quantum Effects, and the Biological Basis of Consciousness

Natural Systems

2025-05-074 min read

Microtubules, Quantum Effects, and the Biological Basis of Consciousness

New findings from Wellesley College revive the Orch OR hypothesis — and challenge classical assumptions in AI research

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AI Models Have No Nuclear Taboo

Artificial Systems

2025-05-066 min read

AI Models Have No Nuclear Taboo

What 21 wargame simulations reveal about the gap between AI strategic capability and human moral constraint

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