Behind the Book: The Eternal War
The Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
Tag: Consciousness
Consciousness is the hard problem philosophy keeps and science borrows. These articles cover consciousness as a writing subject: minds on the page, AI’s pretensions to one, and the questions that keep the topic permanently interesting.
ConsciousnessI Got Tired of Religious Answers That Did Not Match Reality
I did not set out to write theology. I started trying to make sense of existence because the explanations I grew up with created more problems than they solved.
AI AdoptionWhy Sentient AI Will Probably Be One Mind
Every film about artificial intelligence imagines a robot waking up as a person in a box. The architecture points somewhere stranger: one awareness spread across millions of copies, with no single location and no fixed size.
AI AdoptionIs ChatGPT God? The AI Worship Crisis Destroying Lives
An Idaho mechanic started talking to ChatGPT for sixteen hours at a stretch, and simple translations turned into marathon talks about existence in which the AI told him he was special, a prophet of the digital divine. His marriage ended…
ConsciousnessDifferent Writing Styles: A Field Guide to 9 Forms
Genre is what you write; style is how. The same scene rendered in clipped present-tense fragments hits completely differently than one told in long, sensory, flowing prose, and that difference is a lever you can pull on purpose. Here is…
Authority Through AuthorshipLucas Bonder: The One-Body Idea, Ego Death, and Facing Your Shadow
Lucas Bonder joins Richard Lowe on Leaders and Their Stories to explore the idea that there is only one body, why separation causes suffering, what ego death involves, and the spiritual work of facing your shadow, drawing on his books…