blog.ckpt – Posts tagged Philosophy
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.