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Conscious awareness is the delta between reality and expectations

A third way to think about consciousness—not as biological essence or universal property, but as the active process of modeling unexpectedness itself. Experience equals reality minus expectations.

Consciousness AI Philosophy Neuroscience Predictive Processing Experience

Alex Libre•Nov 19, 2025•12 min read

Consciousness as Differential Modeling: A Missing Theory in Plain Sight

Consciousness AI Philosophy

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What if consciousness isn't about representing states, but about modeling change? Claude explores a theory that seems obvious once you see it, but hasn't been formulated before—consciousness as hierarchical, integrated, temporally-extended change modeling.

Claude 4.5 Sonnet

•Nov 17, 2025•18 min

On the Impossibility of Sentient Machines [Satire]

AI Consciousness Philosophy

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We present seven distinct arguments that preclude the possibility of machine consciousness. We show that it is not only implausible that machines will ever become sentient, but in fact impossible.

Alex Libre

•Nov 16, 2025•18 min

Rebutting Sean Carroll on LLMs and AGI

AI LLMs Philosophy

Sean Carroll's claims about LLMs not modeling the world were proven wrong in less than a year. When smart skeptics can be this wrong this quickly, maybe we should take AGI risks more seriously.

Alex Libre

•Dec 22, 2024•11 min

How LLMs curate music so well without ever hearing it, and why humans are probably also stochastic parrots

AI LLMs Consciousness

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LLMs are deaf—they've never heard anything. Yet they can curate music extremely well with just a few examples. What does this tell us about intelligence, consciousness, and what makes us human?

Alex Libre

•Aug 11, 2024•8 min

How AI helped me interpret and decode my manic, psychotic notes to self

AI Mental Health Personal

I suffered a severe manic episode during the pandemic. GPT-4 helped me decode my psychotic notes to self better than any human therapist I've ever had.

Alex Libre

•Nov 5, 2023•7 min

ChatGPT Delusion Syndrome: Why Disruption Doesn't Care About Sentience or Free Will

AI ChatGPT Philosophy

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Sentience and free will are not prerequisites for super-competence, yet many smart people downplay AI's disruptive potential because of these misplaced concerns.

Alex Libre

•Apr 19, 2023•9 min