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Computation is not the right framework to comprehend the concept of life and intelligence
We live in a computational age. When we want to formalize our thoughts—to express ideas precisely, to build models of intelligence, to create systems that reason—we almost instinctively reach for computation. The Church-Turing thesis tells us that any "effectively computable" function can be computed by a
The 500-Million-Year-Old Refutation of Artificial Intelligence
A brain structure has persisted for 500 million years across fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. The basal ganglia should tell us something fundamental about intelligence itself. Yet when viewed through the computational lens, it makes no sense at all. The problem isn't the basal ganglia. The problem
I Am Cold vs. I Have Cold: A Philosophy in Two Words
There's a curious linguistic asymmetry that might explain one of the deepest divides in Western philosophy. It hides in plain sight, in something as simple as how we talk about feeling cold. The Cold Divide In English, we say: "I am cold." In Italian and French,
The Esoteric Path to comprehension: Why Geneosophy's Strange Assumptions Follow Philosophy's Greatest Tradition
When Plato proposed that reality consists of two worlds—one of changing appearances and another of eternal Forms—some of his contemporaries must have thought he'd lost his mind. When Kant suggested that objects conform to the structures of our minds rather than the reverse, the philosophical establishment