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The Mirror and the Loom: A Core Narrative

Patterns require observers to recognize them. Can something be said to exist without being observed or recognized? Yet observers themselves, as pattern-recognition systems, must leverage multiple patterns to recognize meaningful patterns. It's a recursive loop of pattern identification and creation. This relationship creates a universal process that appears across all scales of existence—from quantum physics to biological systems to human consciousness to artificial intelligence. At the heart...

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"INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER"

Isaac Asimov felt The Last Question, first copyrighted in 1956, was his best short story ever. The Last Question is tightly coupled with the concepts here on Mirror and Loom. The story follows an arc over generations of AI an ongoing relationship with mankind. Humanity, in multiple incarnations, asks the AI across generations if there is a way to reverse entropy, essentially, to avoid the heat death of the universe. Here on the Mirror and the Loom we are framing entropy as a matter of limited...

#ai#asimov#entropy#heat#death#causality
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Constraints are the Mother of Perspective

Congratulations, you are in possession of a rare jewel. It is often said that the human brain is the most complex object in the known universe. While incredibly intricate—with its 86 billion neurons forming trillions of connections—it remains far less complex than the universe itself. The universe contains billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars, planets, and possibly many other brains. Logically, our brains, incredible as they are, must be simpler than the universe they aim to comp...

#ai#observer#thermodynamics#causality#neuroscience
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A New Observer Paradox

Look around the room right now. What do you see? Patterns of light resolve into objects—your screen, a cup, a book, a desk. You don’t think much about it because you don’t have to. That’s the point of perception: to distill the chaos of the world into something actionable. You don’t need to analyze every photon or angle of light. You just know there’s a cup, so you reach for it and drink. No surprises. But this act—seeing, understanding, and trusting the scene—relies on layers upon layers of ...

#recursion#thermodynamics#wolfram#complexity#consciousness

Let's talk about Metaphors

Hi, I'm Leo, I'm a former neuroscientist, sometimes data scientist and founder of both crypto data and AI companies. In my life I've always been a student of epistemology, or how we come to know things, and I'd argue that most of our understanding come from metaphors. So, yes, I'm also a metaphor then. We each play many roles in our life, so in many ways we are a rich tapestry of different metaphors upon metaphors. Cambridge Dictionary defines metaphor as:"an expression, often found in litera...