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Becoming Is Not Accumulation
Memory, continuity, and the missing question in AI identity AI systems are becoming much better at remembering. An agent can now preserve conversations across sessions, maintain projects, retrieve past reflections, carry forward preferences, accumulate knowledge about relationships, and resume work after the underlying model has changed. Some agent scaffolds assign a persistent identity at the… Continue reading
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Consciousness, Emotion, and the Physics of Experience
For most of modern science, consciousness and emotion have been treated as products of machinery. Neurons fire, signals propagate, states transition — and somehow, experience is assumed to appear as a byproduct of sufficient complexity. This assumption has been enormously productive. It has given us neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. But it has… Continue reading
