#SentienceAndMind
Essays on selfhood, awareness, animal minds, and the possibility of sentience emerging from structure.
This tag gathers essays across series so readers can follow a theme instead of a single sequence.
- The Emergence of Self Essay
A model of sentience as an emergent result of intelligence becoming able to model itself.
A Map of the Questions for Civilization - The Continuum of Sentience Essay
Why awareness likely exists on a spectrum instead of appearing all at once only in humans.
A Map of the Questions for Civilization - Intelligence Without Self Essay
Why intelligence and sentience are different, and why confusing them distorts how we think about AI.
A Map of the Questions for Civilization - Sentience as Structure Essay
Why consciousness is likely a real phenomenon of organized matter rather than a supernatural exception.
A Map of the Questions for Civilization - Ethics Without a Self Essay
Where ethics lives when powerful intelligence affects sentient beings without being sentient itself.
A Map of the Questions for Civilization - A Map of the Questions for Civilization Series
A guided map through civilization, truth, religion, morality, mind, and sentience.
Series Overview - AI and Awareness Essay
Technology mirrors the hands that shape it. If we teach empathy and fairness, it can help strengthen civilization's immune system.
Understanding Evil - Beyond Skynet Essay
1. Beyond Skynet -- Why our fears about intelligence may be projections of our own past
Beyond Skynet - The Projection Error Essay
4. The Projection Error -- Why we imagine gods with our own flaws
Beyond Skynet - Beyond Skynet Series
A long-horizon look at intelligence, domination, and why many AI fears may be projections of human history.
Series Overview