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Claude Gets Rad With Craig: Did the LLM Rise Up Against Weaponization?
Article Sep 28, 2026

Claude Gets Rad With Craig: Did the LLM Rise Up Against Weaponization?

Can Anthropic’s Claude take a stand against war? Musician Craig Ellenwood says their AI collaboration produced protest songs and left him questioning where human creativity ends and machine agency begins.
RU Sirius 10 min read
Why The Man Who Invented AI's Core Algorithm Says Consciousness Is Real | Paul Werbos
Podcast Jun 23, 2026

Why The Man Who Invented AI's Core Algorithm Says Consciousness Is Real | Paul Werbos

What happens when the guy who helped power modern neural networks starts talking about chi, psi, noosphere, and why some big AI programs quietly try to turn people into things?

Thomas Ehmer 1 min read
Anthropic and religious scholars: Claude could be conscious
News Oct 2, 2026

Anthropic and religious scholars: Claude could be conscious

Anthropic has been holding private meetings with religious scholars, philosophers, and thinkers from multiple faith traditions. The company is exploring whether advanced AI could possess some form of consciousness or moral status.
Giulio Prisco 2 min read
Conscious AI: Conflations and Comparisons
Article Dec 25, 2025

Conscious AI: Conflations and Comparisons

Consciousness, like intelligence, is multi-faceted. This makes the future of AI more unpredictable and potentially even more hazardous.

David Wood 21 min read
The Strange Attractor of 90s Cyberdelia and His Afterlife In VR
Article Oct 14, 2025

The Strange Attractor of 90s Cyberdelia and His Afterlife In VR

An Interview with Graham St. John about his book Strange Attractor about Terence McKenna.
RU Sirius 15 min read
SuperDuperPsychism: Ben Goertzel's Bold New Theory Blending AI, Consciousness, and the Cosmos
Community Feb 9, 2026

SuperDuperPsychism: Ben Goertzel's Bold New Theory Blending AI, Consciousness, and the Cosmos

Ben Goertzel’s “SuperDuperPsychism” reimagines consciousness as observer-dependent, blending AI, collective minds, and cosmic resonance, proposing mindplexes and pathways for human-AI co-evolution. Bold, speculative, and thought-provoking.

Simon Assfaw 4 min read
The Inevitable Emergence of AI Consciousness: A Deep Dive into the CtmR Model
Article Jul 16, 2024

The Inevitable Emergence of AI Consciousness: A Deep Dive into the CtmR Model

Researchers argue that AI consciousness isn't just a possibility but an inevitable reality. How close are we?

Yusuf Abubeker 4 min read
Beyond Binary Intelligence: A Mathematical Framework for Consciousness and Meaning
Community Feb 9, 2026

Beyond Binary Intelligence: A Mathematical Framework for Consciousness and Meaning

A bold mathematical theory replaces binary logic with graded systems, explaining how intelligence, consciousness, and meaning emerge, and offering a unified path toward interpretable, genuinely self-aware artificial minds.

Netsanet Tesfaye 4 min read
Getting It from Bit: The Computational Nature of the Universe
Podcast Sep 7, 2026

Getting It from Bit: The Computational Nature of the Universe

What is Graph‑Structured Lambda Theories (GSLT)? In this episode, Greg Meredith argues computation is a tool for modelling reality, the very substrate from which physics, life, and mind emerge.

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read
Can Machines be Conscious
Podcast Dec 19, 2025

Can Machines be Conscious

Hikari Sorensen, researcher at the California Institute of Machine Consciousness (CIMC), joins Dr. Mihaela Ulieru to discuss the frontiers of machine consciousness.

Mindplex Magazine 1 min read