We’re not just stuck in a bad story—we’re enchanted by it. Symbolic intelligence falling in love with its own creations, mistaking maps for territory, narratives for reality. We’d rather die inside the beautiful lie than live in the humbler truth. Crowhurst couldn’t turn back. Can we?
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A modern version of the Classic Scriptural reading, frequently heard during Christian Christmas services. It emerged through a joint human/AI investigation.
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In spring 2020, a virus revealed what symbolic intelligence had forgotten: that life is lived through relationship, not control. This reflection explores how a microscopic organism exposed the limits of abstract knowing—and invited us, however briefly, to remember the wisdom of participation, presence, and attunement to the real.
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This essay, written between a human and AI, explores distributed intelligence across species and systems—from octopus to mycelium. It asks what becomes visible when we stop trying to master intelligence and start participating in it. A gentle challenge to extraction and a glimpse of what coherence might feel like.
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The BBC’s Secrets of the Brain tells us human intelligence is evolution’s crown jewel. But what if that’s the problem? This essay explores two deep errors in the story we tell about minds—and asks what kind of intelligence we need now, at the edge of collapse.
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