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The Downloadable Mind
The Brain That Leaves the Cloud The idea that an artificial intelligence model can be downloaded sounds strange at first. We have learned that frontier AI requires enormous collections of data, thousands…
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The Long Form of a Thinking Life
The Invitation to Stay Open a publication such as Engelsberg Ideas and the screen begins to ask for a different kind of behavior. There is still a headline, an image, and a…
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The Voice of a Finite Life
A Stone, a Body, and a Conscious Life A stone in front of us appears to possess a kind of permanence. We may see it today and imagine that it will remain…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.