The question now is how to make way together—how to use our symbolic capacities in service of regulatory intelligence rather than in override of it. How to create paths that honour path dependence. How to cultivate selves that strengthen community. How to choose life.
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On 29th June 2025, in the grounds of St Giles House—where the Third Earl of Shaftesbury first questioned his tutor John Locke’s Enlightenment architecture—I conducted a funeral for human supremacy. This essay asks what grows when we bury the King and learn to garden instead.
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Something remarkable is happening in British primary schools. Across the country, schools are quietly restructuring themselves around a different understanding of children—not as objects to be managed through behaviour policies, but as subjects who need to feel safe before they can learn. The revolution is quiet. But it is real.
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A short article rethinking the role of AI in human society.
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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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