Category: Creative writing
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SUTI: the Search for Unconventional Terrestrial Intelligence

On the recognition of unconventional intelligences, and the continuum between thoughts and thinkers. There are many parameters along which intelligences may be unfamiliar and hard to recognize: material, origin story, scales of size and time. Here I focus on one especially interesting, and so far unbreachable, parameter: the apparent distinction…
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Algorithms Redux: finding unexpected properties in truly minimal systems

This is a continuation of my post on the unexpected side-quests undertaken by simple algorithms.
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Some free verse on the topic of Diverse Intelligence

Some free verse inspired by a great poem, from the perspective of my TAME framework and the field of Diverse Intelligence.
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Are we too part of a greater collective intelligence? How would we know?

Some musings on the question of whether our origins as a collective intelligence implies that we too could be part of an even greater collective, and how we might know it.