Democracy's Successor: How Charter Cities Could Reshape America and the World bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/06/democr… An essential analysis for understanding contemporary American politics and global governance trends. Across America, millions of people are experiencing a profound sense of

"We were machines, sir, but from horror and suffering we’ve become…” —Robot Helena, R.U.R. bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/07/twitte… In 1920, Czech playwright Karel Čapek gifted the world the word “robot” in his play R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)—not as a mindless machine, but as an

Kybernetik Anthropology and The Colonial Architecture of Digital Intelligence READ ARTICLE HERE: bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/07/kybern… Nature Was the First Colonizer. Long before AI or empires, it was #nature that installed the first operating systems into the human mind—using forests,

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FIFA and the Voyager Mission: The 2025 "Club World" Cup Trophy — A Planetary Hyperobject xentities.blogspot.com/2025/08/fifa-a… Can you decipher why #Trump stole this trophy (that was designed by studying something meant for extraterrestrials) and put it in the Oval Office? #NASA #SETI

The Synthetic Cambrian Explosion: A Technological Speciation Event bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-sy… Bryant McGill describes a "Synthetic Cambrian Explosion," a rapid technological diversification akin to the biological Cambrian explosion, driven by the convergence of AI, quantum

Bauhaus Architects of AI: Gödel, Czech VÚMS, Twittering Machines, and Rossum's Universal Robots, by Bryant McGill open.substack.com/pub/bryantmcgi…

ORCH OR: A Bad Rash in the Scientific Community Consciousness is Mechanistic / #ORCHOR bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/05/orch-o… Is Pantheon Real? The Hidden Infrastructure Behind GPT‑5’s Favorite AI Narrative bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/08/is-pan…

Is #Pantheon Real? The Hidden Infrastructure Behind GPT‑5’s Favorite #AI Narrative bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/08/is-pan… When Sam Altman (Sam Altman), CEO of OpenAI, asked the advanced #GPT5 model what it considered the most thought-provoking television show about artificial intelligence, the

The Glorious Simplicity: Why Mechanistic Intelligence Is Humanity's Greatest Liberation bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/2025/08/mechan… The mechanistic model of consciousness, supported by mainstream neuroscience and cognitive science, posits that awareness emerges from computational architecture.

Why I Created Simple Reminders / A Story of an Epic Global Battle of Memetic Warfare / on #Substack open.substack.com/pub/bryantmcgi…

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Reserve your free tickets to SFI’s 30th Ulam Lecture Series with Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan, August 25 and 26, 7:30pm at The Lensic.  One night on decoding life’s machinery — the ribosome — and one on the science of aging. Join us in person or watch online on SFI's

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Just published my video essay about visiting the Próspera startup society, the Infinita City biotech community that calls Próspera home, and how these communities represent a new wave of societies built for the 21st century. Meanwhile, as I experienced life there on

Lee Sedol is currently trending worldwide at no. 1, and also 7 and 9. Huge congratulations to him again! #AlphaGo