# Mental Contractions

of an alien from the future on enhancing, extending, and exploring existence through artificial intelligence, biotechnology and more.

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## [Consciousness Is Very Likely Not Something You Get for Free by Preserving a Pattern](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/consciousness-is-very-likely-not)

_2026-04-22 · Pawel Pachniewski_

Start with the empirically grounded point, not with slogans.

## [Future technology and products (part 1): exobiological barriers and filters](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/future-technology-and-products-part)

_2026-03-17 · Pawel Pachniewski_

Our evolved filters, linguistic processing, skin, taste, smell, even the blood-brain barrier, will not be enough to keep bad, hostile, deceptive, or unknown things from affecting us.

## [Five new basic future rights of generally intelligent sentient beings](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/five-new-basic-future-rights-of-generally)

_2024-09-28 · Pawel Pachniewski_

Because I have rather particular ideas with respect to governance, rights, and the overall structure of our civilization in the next decades, I won’t go into details about how these rights would work exactly.

## [The future of AI - what's the "realistic" view?](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-future-of-ai-whats-the-realistic)

_2023-02-13 · Pawel Pachniewski_

There are some people out there who pretend to present "realistic" views on AI where improvement is always going to be very gradual.

## [Future posts](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/future-posts)

_2023-01-08 · Pawel Pachniewski_

An overview and preview for subscribers

## [The intersubjectivity collapse](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-intersubjectivity-collapse)

_2023-01-08 · Pawel Pachniewski_

A catastrophic or existential risk for any civilization that radically self-modifies their minds and develops AGI

## [Not artificially conscious](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/not-artificially-conscious)

_2022-12-30 · Pawel Pachniewski_

Why large language models like GPT-4 are not conscious

## [The genie is out of the bottle](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/openais-chatgpt)

_2022-12-04 · Pawel Pachniewski_

There will be no AI winter.

## [The Phantom Cognit](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-phantom-cognit)

_2022-12-03 · Pawel Pachniewski_

A future-proof term for a missing cognitive unit a mind tries to access.

## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/N7633DM9BoAV)

_2022-12-03 · **Sponsored**_

Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression.

## [The subjectiverse: part 1](https://mentalcontractions.substack.com/p/the-subjectiverse-part-1)

_2022-11-26 · Pawel Pachniewski_

A term for the space of all possible experiences to be had