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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
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Soul, Time, and the Value of Creation
One of the most common claims people make about AI art is that it is “soulless.” They say it’s cheap, derivative, or “not real” because it doesn’t take months of labor to produce. It’s a dismissal that reveals less about the art itself and more about the way humans have been taught to measure value. Continue reading