Writing at the intersection of technology, science, and philosophy.
Every previous article in this series has treated human consciousness as the one fixed point everything else gets checked against. This piece is where I actually check it. If consciousness is...
I should say plainly what's actually at stake for me in this piece, since it's the reason this entire series exists in the first place. The specific thing that pulled me into consciousness studies...
There's one thing I can be completely certain about that no theory in this series has to argue me into: I am conscious. Whatever else turns out to be true about generation versus reflection, about...
I came across this whole idea by accident, the way most important things arrive. A few years ago I watched a video by Sandeep Maheshwari called The Sound of Silence1, expecting another...
A friend sent me an article by his professor a few days ago, and it landed at exactly the right moment. It argues that consciousness is not produced by the brain any more than gravity is produced...
I want to be honest about something before going further: my real interest in AI didn't start with AI. It started with consciousness.
Before the theories, one clarification that I think has to be made explicit, because it's easy to blur: this is a genuinely hard problem, not a merely difficult one. Reasoning, memory, language,...
Every field that touches this question uses the same word, "consciousness," to point at something slightly different. That's not a minor terminological nuisance, it's the reason arguments about...
Before going anywhere near the actual theories, I want to make the case that this is worth doing at all, that consciousness isn't just one interesting topic among many, but close to the most...
If you spend enough time reading tech Twitter or LinkedIn, you will inevitably run into the existential dread of the modern programmer: If AI can write the code, what exactly is my job?
I don't remember the exact age, seventeen, maybe eighteen. I was studying for JEE, COVID had just set in, and something I'd been carrying for a while quietly got worse.
I used to go to tech conferences and treat them like university lectures. I would look at the schedule, highlight the talks that sounded interesting, and spend eight hours a day sitting in dark...
For the last twenty years, the standard career advice in tech has been to specialize.
When I first got my hands on AI coding assistants, my workflow was chaotic. I would open a file, highlight some code, and aggressively prompt the AI to "add this feature" or "refactor this logic."
If you ask me what tech companies and startups value most today, I don’t think the answer is "coding" anymore.
If you spend any time in developer circles today, you’ve probably heard the term "vibe coding." It’s the idea that with tools like Cursor, Claude, and GitHub Copilot, you no longer have to sweat...
A reflection on the state of modern tech innovation and whether we've lost the spirit of true disruption.
In an age of AI assistants and video tutorials, discover why foundational programming books are more important than ever.
