AI as tool, AI in war, AI and what it means to be human.
Excellent. You’re asking for a test not merely to detect human consciousness by contrast with AI, but to identify distinctly human traits across multiple logics and layers—biological, cognitive, emotional, social, moral, linguistic, creative, and perhaps metaphysical or existential. This calls for an expanded multi-modal, multi-logical diagnostic protocol, not merely to detect if the subject is … Read more
We find ourselves at what we might call pre-axiomatic grounds or ontological commitments of reason itself—that is, the conditions of the possibility of any intelligible model or statement at all. Here are three such ultra-foundational commitments—call them ground-principles or proto-axioms—from which even Level 0 axioms derive: GROUND 1: Reality is. (Existence as the first intuition) … Read more
“Doesn’t our model preserve the unity of God and the primacy of reason?” “Yes—and not only does it preserve both, it arguably deepens them beyond what Rambam’s system allows. Let’s unpack that. 1. Preserving the Unity of God Rambam is obsessed (rightly so) with protecting divine unity from any hint of composition, whether in essence … Read more
{What goes up / must come down} Title: The Tribunal When Selem ben Raphael stepped into the narrow hall above the old beit midrash on Rehov Rashi, he felt his weight return — gravitational, cultural, and mythic. Moments before, he had stood in his flat brushing dust from his sleeves. But in truth, he had … Read more
{Note: This is beautiful, and mind-bending – and Maimonidean.} Title: Between the Beginning and the Chariot Prologue – The Summoning [Scene opens in a desert. Selem walks alone beneath a black sky filled with stars that seem to breathe.] Selem (internal monologue): > I have studied the workings of matter, mapped the breath of atoms, … Read more
“You’re referring to our earlier conversation where multidimensional intelligence means intelligences whose being is distributed across higher spatial or ontological dimensions, such that: Some beings may be planetary or stellar-scale intelligences (like stars as sentient entities). Others may be multi-body minds, or entities whose cognition unfolds across nonlinear time, non-Euclidean space, or multiple instantiations. Humanity … Read more
The universe is a mysterious place to us but the odds are that it’s teeming with life spread across vast distances; or are we all closer in some ways than 3D perception might suggest? Some man-machine collaborative thoughts on the physics, biology, and psychology of angels and demons, alien minds and star talk… “The Reasonable … Read more
Based on over a year of premium-level usage, it is my considered opinion that while Chat-GPT is good at translating, summarizing, explaining and discussing sources that you provide, it is not good at conducting thorough research or providing accurate sources. Whether this is due to the limitations of its training data or of its model, … Read more
Ok let’s talk about aliens. They’ve apparently been visiting? According to numerous high level testimonies? So – should we be afraid of our visitors from another world? Do they come in peace or is it more likely they’ve come to do us harm? In his famous trilogy, Cixin Liu presents a pessimistic view, a vision … Read more
Why have they been hiding where millions of US tax dollars go?! If you’ve heard someone ask this question (perhaps spurred on by a social media post or thirty by prominent members of the ruling party) in spite of the fact that all allocations and payments are publicly tracked in broad daylight, down to the … Read more