Evolution's Design Pattern

I don’t mean this in the traditional sense of “perfect is the enemy of good”. I rarely held that idea to much credence anyways. What I mean is that perfection is an unimaginable idea that we have tricked ourselves into accepting as an ideal for various human endeavours. what does it mean for something to be perfect? Generally perfection is...

premise The parallels and invariants between artificial and natural intelligence propose unique practical and philosophical insights into both fields. assumptions Intelligence is prediction–all intelligent systems build models to anticipate future states Self-modeling is computationally necessary–systems must represent themselves to reason about...

VII. Navigation in Temporal Existence To navigate is not to escape. We cannot step outside temporal existence, cannot free ourselves from the anxiety of dissolution, cannot build perfect systems that fully capture experience. Navigation requires sophisticated engagement with these very limitations. It means developing dynamic equilibrium with...

IV. Construction and the Architecture of Understanding Our constructions arise not from free choice but from necessity—driven by temporal anxiety and shaped by patterns of resistance. Language, mathematics, science, art, philosophy—these emerge as attempts to build stability in the face of dissolution. Yet they are not mere defenses against...

I. The Ground of Experience We find ourselves always already in experience. This is not an ontological claim but a recognition of our starting point. Any attempt to ground experience in something more fundamental—consciousness, matter, information—already imposes construction on what is given. Even to speak of “what is given” suggests a giver and...