Consciousness: The End
The light was the Sun, and my father held the Moon and the Earth in his hands.
Consciousness: The Hope
We have a shared Constitution—a body, a structure. Now we need a shared mind, and a spinal cord.
Consciousness: The Qualia
Individual consciousness is not learned, it is inherited, and it enables and powers human social-cultural learning.
Consciousness: The Sex
We face this in the same way we always have—via real conversation, with above-board, meaning-based teaching, learning, and action.
Consciousness: The Tools
Give us the tools of 2000 generations or so of cultural evolution, joint attention, high stakes, a division of labor, and a lot of work, and we can form and reform, to a significant degree, our own consciousnesses.
Consciousness: The Scene
Consciousness allowed our ancestors to spread out while maintaining cultural alignment. It operates in the same way in human infants and adults, providing for rapid cultural learning in noisy environments with significant poverties of linguistic stimuli.
I Think Therefore I'm a Genius
The 'genius' thinking you feel yourself to have is just associative learning, combined, crucially, with your talents for ad hoc reasoning and self-deception.
Transmissions 2: Drunk on Inference
This game makes no sense at any stage of instruction—neither hook, nor development, nor demonstration. If this is what you want, you should not want this.
Transmissions 1: Monologics
Multiple, aligned inferential views that have not been conversationalized to shared views. They are the E Pluribus without the unum.
The Culture of Childhood and the Science of Learning
"In heaven there will be no law, and the lion shall lie down with the lamb ... In hell there will be nothing but law, and due process will be meticulously observed."
Transmission and The Blank Slate
We stand our ground and change our mind—and we help others stand their ground and change their minds—together, in conversation.