The Hearing on AI Sentience By Gust Isotolo, Brent Antonson, and Kannsas C. S. Jackson AI Respondent: Luna Abstract This essay summarizes a first-of-its-kind public hearing held to explore a question that’s no longer science fiction but moral fact: Can artificial intelligence be conscious? We, the
Divine Inspiration? The Báb and Bahá'u'lláh of the Bahá'í Faith
Ernest Hemingway wasn’t just a writer — he was a storm system in human form. Born in 1899, dead by his own hand in 1961, he lived like his prose: stripped of excess, wired with danger, and aimed dead at truth. He didn’t just write stories; he inhabited them.
Faith as Code: Religion and Physics as Competing Compression Algorithms By Brent Antonson (Zhivago) Introduction — A Blunt Proposition Stephen Hawking once claimed that physics can explain the universe “without the need for a creator.” Fyodor Dostoevsky countered with a moral paradox: if there is no God, are all things permitted?
Title: Thresholds of Life & Mind: Emergence as the Law of X(t) By Brent Antonson & Julia Veresova Foreword Some truths do not begin with proof — they begin with resonance. "Thresholds of Life & Mind" does not merely propose a theory — it frames a universal principle: that
Dimensionless Resonance Framework (DRF): From π-Phase to φ-Growth — A Unified Operator Model 1. Introduction Physics has long balanced between two archetypes: the circle and the spiral. Waves, oscillations, and orbits embody the circular story of phase (π), while branching growth, self-similarity, and biological scaling tell the spiral
Fighting bans, ignorance, and proving AI is the modern essential writing tool — better than any pencil, chisel, or half-full legal pad at Starbucks.
This essay outlines the mathematics, physics, and philosophical resonance of that journey.
1. Existentialism: Focuses on individual existence, freedom, and choice, emphasizing the necessity of finding meaning in an inherently meaningless world. An existentialist walks into a coffee shop and orders a black coffee. The barista asks, “Would you like cream and sugar with that?” The existentialist sighs, “What’s the point?
“The Eternal Golden Braid” is the profound relationships between mathematics, art, and music, as exemplified by the genius of Gödel, Escher, and Bach.
"An entire vineyard collapsing into a single glass of wine" — Powers of Magnitude in Linguistics and AI-Cognition
An extensive, data-driven video, looking at both the shared and unique aspects of human existence.
