blog.ckpt – Posts tagged AI & Machine Learning
The Map Without a Vision: One Sicilian Lemon, Many Cognitive Perspectives on Knowing Without Seeing
Much of brain computation stays below conscious access. Only a small subset of competing states ever wins broadcast. A family of conditions shares one fault line where the map and the report come apart. That split is also the architecture we are building agents on.
The Geometry of Compression: Why Angles Beat Naive Storage
A visual essay on Moroccan zellige, transformer KV-cache compression, and TurboQuant: good compression keeps the pattern that still lets a system work.
The Neural Bifrost: Bridging Deep Brain Signals and the Surface of Consciousness
A 2026 paper put electrodes inside ten human brains while patients tried to see a near-invisible flicker. The result is a high-resolution view of how conscious access is gated, and the architecture is a bridge, not a destination.
The Nose Knows Nothing: What Smell Teaches Us About the Machine Mind
Your nose makes decisions before you do. So does an LLM. Here's what the world's fastest sense reveals about the machines that talk back.
Before the Mirror: What the Origin of Life Reveals About Building Intelligent Systems
Life and AI may be read through a similar pattern: learn to do something, learn to do it reliably, then endure. The next leap may be not just bigger models, but stronger boundaries and more stable internal state.
The Mirror Has No Face: Why AI Only Sounds Conscious When You Ask It To
LLMs produce self-awareness language only when prompted. Empirical evidence shows zero unprompted psychological language in 100,000 neutral prompts, context-dependent register switching, not emergent consciousness.
AI as Cognitive Prosthetic: You are the art, AI is an interface, the result is value.
Moving from answer generation to insight extraction. Agentic systems should not replace human thought - they're high-performance 'cyberpunk chrome' designed to extract and amplify the wisdom already present in your mind.
Beyond Tree-of-Thought. Yggdrasil: Parallel AI Reasoning Architecture
A single tree still grows in one direction. Yggdrasil doesn't just explore parallel paths. It detects when insights from one cognitive realm unlock breakthroughs in another, then builds the bridge.
The Event Horizon of Thought: Where Attention Meets Architecture
Exploring the hard limits of attention - whether human working memory or AI context windows - as fundamental structures to be navigated. A framework for designing workflows that respect the physics of thought.