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How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 8. “The Holographic Present: A Primer of a Cross‑Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness”
Illustration by ChatGPTSo I followed DeepSeek’s advice, as I let you know on August 29th: write a ‘Synthetic Article on a Cross-Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness’. Here it is. We will next work on maximising its visibility.
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Unilog 2022 – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?, now on arXiv
The paper I presented at the UNILOG conference on 9 April 2022 is now available on arXiv: What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 7. A Synthetic Article on a Cross-Flow Resonance Theory of Consciousness
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 6. Inertia in the advancement of knowledge
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 5. How consciousness constructs a meaningful present moment
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 4. Where it appears that neuroscience has confirmed my hypothesis
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 3. How does the brain synchronise data from the five senses?
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 2. Deep within memory: a continuous, reverberating loop
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 1. The rabbit in the headlights
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode zero. One of those detective stories where the name of the assassin shows on the front page.
AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?
In the same vein as my AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? a fortnight ago. Today, this AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?.
…AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
On the puzzling behavior of generative AIs: What to make of recent interpretations of the inner workings of Claude, Anthropic’s large language model?

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On March 27, 2025, Anthropic published a set of innovative analyses in its article On the Biology of a Large Language Model (LLM), constituting an in-depth exploration of the internal workings of its Claude 3.5 Haiku…
Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9th 2025
Talking to the amazing new conversational tool from sesame.com
Paris Defence and Strategy Forum – The Silent War and Strategic Mobilization in the Age of Infrastructure Warfare, March 12th 2025
“JESUS vs DONALD” #JvsD
Intelligence & Société N°6, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
Intelligence & Société N°5, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
A Stephen Wolfram Tribute

Dog cockle, Glycymeris glycymeris

Stephen Wolfram, “Universality and Complexity in Cellular Automata”, Physica 10D (1984), 1-35
Intelligence & Société N°3, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM








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