Perfection is an Illusion

There’s something interesting and beautiful about evolution that is often overlooked: it works through emergence. No central planning, no intelligent design, just countless micro-interactions creating macro-level optimization that appears almost deliberately crafted. the diversity problem Think about what human society needs to function. We need...

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...