When AI Finishes Your Thoughts, What Happens to Them?
When does AI preserve the work through which a mind develops, and when does it potentially undermine development?
ExperiMentations
Evidence-based essays on AI, consciousness, relationships, and the changing human mind—by psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Grant Brenner.
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At the Human–AI Interface: Concept and Operational Notes on a Dynamic Hypersurface
On Hyperpsyche and Human-AI Complex Interaction as an AI Engineering Stance
Neo-Élan Vital: A Causal-Emergence / Effective-Information-Based Approach
A playful mathematical transliteration of an occult mystical conceptional of vital forces.
Tuning Our Position Relative to Emerging AI
A psychoanalytic case for meeting AI as a Tuner — holding the tension open — rather than splitting into Doomer apocalypse or Zoomer utopia.
Conceptualizing “AI Brain” due to Chronic Computational Injury
Mechanism of Injury and Potential Burden
Is Time A Color Your Brain Invented?
Purple isn’t a external color; it's how the brain puts blue and red together. Time may be similar — assembled in the present moment by mental apparatus.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics for Everything
A review of a classic math and physics paper, with reflections on life, the universe and everything. But mainly life.
Temporally Nested Synergistic Allostasis: A Working Theory of Consciousness in Process
A review and synthesis of current models and literature
ARE LLMs TRANSFERENCE INCARNATE?
A psychoanalystic view that transference - our unconscious projections onto others from earlier relational experience - may be the most useful lens available for the human–AI encounter.
The True Nature of Subjective and Objective Experience?
An interview with Dr. Tom Froese, Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), and Director of the Embodied Cognitive Science Unit.