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Category: Psychoanalysis

Understanding Faster Beats Knowing More in AI Age – Paul Jorion

AI is not waiting for us. The real question is: can we understand fast enough to remain authors of our own lives? In this conversation, Francine Beleyi sits down with polymath Paul Jorion to explore what intelligence really…

February 10, 2026
How I discovered the mechanism of consciousness … in 1999 – Episode 5. How consciousness constructs a meaningful present moment

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First step in the synthesis: showing precisely how the various elements of the mechanism postulated by my theory anticipated discoveries that would later be made by neuroscience.

P.J.:

In…

August 26, 2025
AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?

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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?

Hinton’s view on co-evolution

Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens gradient…

June 20, 2025
A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. IX. Freud: The soul in the realm of suspicion

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Freud: The soul in the realm of suspicion

What Linnæus and Darwin had forced to reconsider was the notion of Man as having been created entirely separately from the “the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle…

October 31, 2024
Pribor.io – Self-Aware Machines (AI)

SAM (Self-Aware Machines) based on a true understanding of the human psyche

Paul Jorion’s Approach to a Genuine birth of Artificial Intelligence

February 14, 2023
“Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, Chapter 4 of a forthcoming book: Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control

Humanising Artificial Intelligence. Psychoanalysis and the Problem of Control, Luca Possati (ed.)

Chapter 4: “Freudian metapsychology and AI systems”, by Paul Jorion

For eighty years now speculative thinkers have debated Isaac Asimov’s “3 Laws of robotics”, a bundle of 3 simple…

October 31, 2022