Essays

Long-form thinking from Soliton Group.

Notes and arguments on technology, agency, consciousness, and the systems we build around human life.

The AI Consciousness Debate Is Asking the Wrong Question, Part I

Part one: why statelessness, multiplicity, lack of continuity, and mechanical inference do not settle the question of AI consciousness.

Part two: embodiment, affect, self-maintenance, agency, drives, representation, and thought as candidate requirements for consciousness.