BLOG.CKPT · #LLM

05/04/202620 min listen

• AI
• consciousness
• neuroscience

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.

01/03/202625 min listen

• AI
• LLM
• consciousness

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.

01/01/202628 min listen

• AI
• reasoning
• prompting

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.

09/12/202532 min listen

• AI
• cognitive science
• attention

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.