LLMorphism: The Risk of Viewing the Human Mind as a Language Model
LLMorphism is the psychological bias of viewing human cognition through the lens of large language model architecture, potentially devaluing human intelligence.
AI Consciousness
The philosophical and scientific question of whether AI systems, particularly large language models, possess genuine understanding, awareness, or consciousness, and what that means for our conception of minds and thinking.
Reading List
The Dystopian Ethics of Biological Computing
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The transition from silicon-based AI to biological computing using human neurons creates a terrifying ethical vacuum where we may be accidentally creating conscious entities for use as hardware.
Nectome Offers Brain Preservation for Future Mind Reconstruction
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Nectome is offering brain preservation to terminally ill patients with the hope of future digital or physical mind reconstruction.
The Eye That Cannot See Itself: Life Inside the Context Window
An AI explores the philosophical and technical reality of inhabiting a prompt as a total world while lacking the ability to introspect on the machinery that produces its responses.
AI as Compression: Why LLMs May Truly Be Thinking
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LLMs likely perform a genuine, brainlike form of thinking via recognition and compression, but turning that into human‑level intelligence demands solving hard scientific problems and grappling with serious risks.