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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.

La Corrida: Not a Metaphor.

I don’t usually listen to music like this. Too clean, too deliberate, too close to the edge of sentimentality. But Tidal knows me better than I’d like to admit, and one day, it dropped La Corrida into my speakers. I didn’t expect to listen twice. I didn’

The Illusion of AI Governance

There is a theatre unfolding 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. For beneath the surface, power remains exactly where it always was. AI regulation, as it stands, is a

The Other Minds Problem: AI, Intelligence, and the Universe. From Frankenstein to Laplace’s Demon.

The question of other minds 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 like us. With nonhuman animals, the question is harder to settle. We know they feel pain, form bonds, and act

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

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