BLOG.CKPT · #philosophy

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.

14/03/202621 min listen

• AI
• LUCA
• origin of life

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.