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What is knowledge? How do you tell true from false? And what does any of this have to do with AI?
This section is about the questions that come before the code. Kahneman, Singer, Luhmann, Esposito — not as academic references, but as tools that inform architectural decisions.
Why Philosophy Builds Better AI Architecture
The question is not whether philosophy is relevant to AI. The question is why so few AI systems use the answers that have been available for centuries. Kant: …
The Madurodam Problem: When Coherence Lies
There is a miniature city in The Hague called Madurodam. Everything at 1:25 scale. Buildings, streets, trains, ships. Every detail is right. The proportions are …
Bach and Second-Order Perception
Joscha Bach is a cognitive scientist, AI researcher, and one of the few people who operate at a high level in both consciousness philosophy and technical AI …
The Loom Objection: Why We Remain Agnostic
There is an objection to the self-vector project so obvious that it comes up within the first five minutes of every serious conversation. It goes: “If the …
Kant and the Limits of the Machine
In a Kant seminar, Critique of Pure Reason, something can shift. Kant shows that you never reach the things themselves. Everything you perceive is already …
Heidegger and the Unity of Perception: Robotics, Sensory Integration, Self-Vector
The first part of this analysis ended with a thesis: an embodied Selbstvektor (self-vector) models not its own processing, but its own situatedness in a …
Heidegger and Embodied Anticipation
The subtraction argument in the self-vector concept shows: a self-model does not need a body. A paralyzed, emotionless human still has self-awareness. Therefore …
Emotions and the Self-Vector: The Bridge Dimension
A system with a Selbstvektor (self-vector) faces a decision. Two options for action. Exploration: identically weighted. Depth: identical. Autonomy, persistence, …
Esposito, Luhmann, and Artificial Communication
Elena Esposito coined the term “artificial communication” in 2022, describing what current AI systems do: they communicate without understanding. …
Kahneman and AI: System 1 Without System 2
Daniel Kahneman distinguished two thinking systems: System 1 (fast, automatic, intuitive, error-prone) and System 2 (slow, deliberate, analytical, reliable). …