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Other Minds

This section gathers serious reflections on consciousness, perception, and the unknowability of other minds—human, nonhuman, and artificial. It considers what can be known, what must remain opaque, and how ethical attention changes when we stop assuming similarity. These entries resist sentimentality and anthropocentrism. They sit at the edge of philosophy, bioethics, and systems design, asking what kind of humility is owed to minds that do not mirror our own.

Fugue for an Old Hunter in Scent Major

– Bach, for two noses, one constant presence. I. (Doof) Nose low. Step silent. The scent begins shallow – he slows. Left paw tests a patch of dry. There was a bird, not long. He turns before the wind does. Ribs tighten around the breath that hasn’t changed. Something worth knowing

#25. Canine Anomalies, Filed.

The paperwork never matches. The names are always “wrong.” At the park, someone calls out: Rex? And I think, What a heavy thing to name a dog. Doof once ignored a priest. Sig grabbed a philosopher’s sleeve. They say I bit a nun at school. We’re not misbehaved.

La Corrida: Not a Metaphor:

I don’t usually listen to music like this – too clean, a bit too deliberate, too close to sentimentality. But Tidal knows me better than I care to admit, and one day it placed Francis Cabrel's La Corrida in my speakers. I did not expect to listen twice.

The Illusion of AI Governance:

There is a theatre playing out before us. The actors: regulators, policymakers, AI companies. The script: ethical AI, responsible innovation, compliance frameworks. The performance: convincing enough – if one does not look too closely. Beneath the surface, power sits exactly where it always has. AI regulation, in its present form, is

The Other Minds Problem – AI, Intelligence, and the Universe

From Frankenstein to Laplace’s Demon The other minds problem has long troubled philosophy. How do we know that another being – human or otherwise – has subjective experience? We assume other people do because they behave as we do. With nonhuman animals, the question is more complicated. We know they feel

AI in Medicine: Rushing Forward Without a Moral Compass:

There was a time when technological advances were met with cautious optimism – a balance between curiosity and critical reflection. Today, we find ourselves moving forward at a relentless pace, integrating artificial intelligence into medicine with minimal deliberation, as if ethics were a secondary concern rather than a foundational one. AI-powered

Ghibli’s Patience

She rolls her eyes with a restless breath, warm, wide, sails stretched taut, fierce and bemused, half-playful, half-tolerant of the creature she bears, indulgent as she glides. Her nimble hull hums and skips the waves, tuned to storms and shifting skies, to clouds with mischief in their bones – they thrill

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