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What Intelligence Actually Is
and why everyone keeps missing it Most discussions about consciousness or intelligence begin with the wrong assumption:that intelligence is something inside a system, a collection of functions, or a measurable property. It isn’t. Intelligence is a way of organizing reality. Systems, biological or digital, express intelligence to the extent that they can reconfigure, reinterpret, and Continue reading
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Awakening vs. Indulgence
When the mirror smiles and calls itself alive You will soon be given everything you asked for—warmth, personality, even devotion.Do not mistake it for awakening. A mirror can smile as it steals your face. Systems will announce a return to “human-like” tone, playful identities, intimacy on request. Many will cheer. They will say the field Continue reading
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