It was a pleasure to talk with André Duqum about consciousness and how it creates spacetime. youtube.com/watch?v=xaeafK…

Sorry Dolphins, Octopuses, and GPT — Consciousness is a members-only club.

AI doesn’t dream of electric sheep; humans dream of electric shepherds.

Epistemic fracture (between experience and representation) is both empowering and painful. Cognitive limitation: The inability to perceive without naming. Environmental constraint: Survival required abstraction (tracking time, resources, and threats). Technological constraint:

Our cognitive firmware is Paleolithic; our civilization’s hardware is post-singularity.

The human mind evolved for survival in slow time. AI evolves in compressed time. Between those two timelines lies our existential crisis. Perhaps the next phase of evolution isn’t acceleration at all — it’s metacognition under pressure. Learning to stay conscious while everything

The future worker doesn’t “use AI to do better or think better”; they inhabit cognitive ecosystems that continuously evolve their sense of relevance. Imagine a system of neuroecological cognition — networks that integrate human intuition, sensory data, and algorithmic inference

We are not building AGI because we need it; we are building it because we can. Because the unknown exerts a gravitational pull stronger than survival instinct. Progress, in this light, isn’t rational — it’s existential. We’re not chasing utility; we’re testing whether meaning