Transhumanism: The Qualia Trap
What must remain unchanged for consciousness to survive radical technological transformation?
What must remain unchanged for consciousness to survive radical technological transformation?
Humanity’s ancient dream of immortality meets a different transhuman path: continuous transformation of the conscious process rather than copying it into a machine.
What if intelligence is not something that began with biological life? This deliberately unhinged hypothesis asks whether intelligence could be a deeper feature of reality—and whether what we call artificial intelligence is really discovering something much older.
What happens when humans try to survive a future of competing AI systems, robots and institutions? This deliberately absurd thought experiment explores the ancient strategy of playing both sides against machines with perfect memory.
