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Chronological index of essays by year. The frozen WordPress-era archive remains at archive.opentheory.net.

2024

  1. A Paradigm for AI Consciousness
  2. Presence neurotechnology & technology-aided direct transmission
  3. Minds as Hyperspheres; the equal-extension thesis and its implications for the framerate of consciousness

2023

  1. Principles of Vasocomputation: A Unification of Buddhist Phenomenology, Active Inference, and Physical Reflex (Part I)
  2. New whitepaper: Qualia Formalism and a Symmetry Theory of Valence
  3. Autism as a disorder of dimensionality
  4. AI x Crypto x Constitutions

2022

  1. AIs aren’t conscious; computers are
  2. Qualia Astronomy & Proof of Qualia
  3. We need ownable neurotech
  4. It From Bit, Revisited
  5. Emmy Noether and the symmetry aesthetic

2021

  1. A Primer on the Symmetry Theory of Valence

2019

  1. Neural Annealing: Toward a Neural Theory of Everything
  2. State of the Qualia, Fall 2019
  3. What’s out there?
  4. Future of Life interview on AI alignment
  5. Taking Monism Seriously
  6. Recent interviews: Allen Saakyan and Adam Ford
  7. Meditation & Science Jam 2019, Koh Phangan, Thailand
  8. Intellectual Lineages
  9. Consciousness: a Cosmological Perspective (Sharpening the Simulation Argument)

2018

  1. The Neuroscience of Meditation: Four Models
  2. Interview & podcast
  3. A new theory of Open Individualism
  4. A Future for Neuroscience
  5. Seed ontologies
  6. Why are humans good?

2017

  1. Rescuing Philosophy
  2. Against functionalism: why I think the Foundational Research Institute should rethink its approach
  3. Taking 'brain waves' seriously: Neuroacoustics
  4. Why we seek out pleasure: the Symmetry Theory of Homeostatic Regulation
  5. Symmetry Theory of Valence "Explain Like I'm 5" edition

2016

  1. Principia Qualia: the executive summary
  2. Principia Qualia

2015

  1. How understanding valence could help make future AIs safer
  2. Effective Altruism, and building a better QALY
  3. Spark Weekend SF Review

2014

  1. If a brain emulation has a headache, does it hurt?
  2. Notes from the PA Longevity Prize
  3. The mystery of pain and pleasure

2013

  1. What the trendy smart people are worrying about

2012

  1. How to Fix Politics: Celebrity Edition
  2. Startup School 2012
  3. Jaan Tallinn on carrots and social status
  4. How to cheat at the Olympics
  5. What rich people are worrying about
  6. Inflation, briefly.

2011

  1. Three Mysteries of Modern Physics
  2. Odd Fact: you aren't related to most of your ancestors.
  3. Connectomics, and An Approach to Frequency Normalization
  4. Quote: Salt in the Wound
  5. Quote: On Academic Bravery
  6. Research Idea: TMS Sonar
  7. Quote: Nethack
  8. Tylenol helps with emotional pain, too
  9. Quote of the week: on distractions
  10. Pain/pleasure metaphysics: a request

2010

  1. Quote: the most important idea in neuroscience?
  2. Cognitive enhancement and a new social contract
  3. Learning and Memory: location, location, location!
  4. SS2010 Highlights: Day 1
  5. SS2010

2009

  1. Toward a new ontology of brain dynamics: neural resonance + neuroacoustics
  2. Gene Expression as a comprehensive diagnostic platform
  3. Neuro musings, part 1: neurobiology, psychology, and the missing link(s)
  4. Quote: on the evolution of reading
  5. A simple and cheap proposal for improving American health
  6. Quote: China on China
  7. On writing, and the beauty of archive.org
  8. Quote: on the economic situation
  9. Our broken grant system
  10. Now leaving Era of the Mystery. All aboard for Era of the Tool.
  11. Brainstorm: Logarithmic Evolution Distance
  12. Brainstorm: An alternative to the tree of life
  13. How processed foods, pesticides, and pollution are bad for us (aka, the "twinkies are like smallpox blankets" hypothesis)

2008

  1. Our National Debt: 1/200th of everything in the world
  2. Quote: 13.7 hours of education
  3. Transcipt of Lessig's Change Congress Announcement
  4. Quote: FSJ on Google
  5. A Suggested Model for Dark Energy
  6. Quote: Blog comments
  7. John Wheeler
  8. The dark and murky effects of HFCS
  9. New York: 2108
  10. Transhumanism essay: part two
  11. The Change Congress Movement
  12. On Wikipedia's Immune System
  13. Transhumanism essay: part one
  14. Two links that blow my mind
  15. Quote: On First Versions
  16. Cognitive Enhancement, The Book

2007

  1. Open Source Government
  2. America's New Constitution
  3. Citizendium: Choosing a Free Content License
  4. Update
  5. Quote of the Week: July 22
  6. Scientific Research (3/5: Dark Energy)
  7. Quote of the Week: July 15
  8. Scientific Research (2/5: Anthropic Principle)
  9. Mahalo, Part III
  10. Mahalo, Part II
  11. Quote of the Week: July 8
  12. Scientific Research (1/5: Gut Flora)
  13. Quote of the Week: July 1
  14. Quote of the Week: June 24 (updated)
  15. Quote of the Week: June 17
  16. Quote of the Week: June 10
  17. A Treat
  18. Quote of the Week: June 3
  19. Mahalo
  20. Quote of the Week: May 27
  21. Quote of the Week: May 13
  22. Quote of the Week: May 6
  23. A Modest Proposal (Political Ads)
  24. Modern Dragons, Now With 20% More Umlauts
  25. Quote of the Week: April 29
  26. Quote of the Week: April 22
  27. Quote of the Week: April 15
  28. Quote of the Week: April 8
  29. Quote of the Week: April 1
  30. Quote of the Week: March 25
  31. Quote of the Week: March 18
  32. Quote of the Week: March 11
  33. Hiatus

2006

  1. Citizendium
  2. 10 Reasons Why
  3. On Technology, the Future, and Material Wealth
  4. Friendly Foxes
  5. Germs and Brains
  6. Yahoo Answers: Stephen Hawking
  7. Neurogenesis
  8. Thursday Quickies
  9. Review: "The Singularity is Near"
  10. Nature's Bold Study