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A.I. Ethics from the Roots
Artificial intelligence is often discussed in terms of rules, safeguards, and alignment. Yet there is a deeper question that receives much less attention. What kind of organization makes ethical behavior possible in the first place? In searching for answers to that question, we arrive at coherence. What begins as an inquiry into intelligence gradually opens Read the full article…
Meaningful Thinking = Sophisticated Pattern Manipulation?
Artificial intelligence has revived an old philosophical question. If both humans and machines work through patterns, and language itself consists of patterns, is thinking ultimately nothing more than sophisticated pattern manipulation? The answer may depend less on the existence of patterns than on how they become organized into meaningful wholes. Looking closely at this question Read the full article…
Coherence All Along
The previous blog, Prägnanz? Coherence?, explored a single phenomenon in depth. A tiny snowman led to insights about Gestalt psychology, surprise, meaning, and coherent organization. Yet after finishing Prägnanz? Coherence?, a question remained. What if several seemingly different phenomena point toward the same deeper principle? This blog takes a step back. Less depth, more breadth. Read the full article…
Prägnanz? Coherence?
Snowballs. A few pebbles. Yet hardly anyone sees separate objects. We immediately see a snowman. More than that, we may see a cute snowman, perhaps even a tiny philosopher smiling at our attempts to understand him. Gestalt psychology gave this phenomenon a name: Prägnanz. But what exactly is it trying to tell us? And might Read the full article…
Coherence Beyond Reductionism
Many people feel that something important is missing from today’s discussions about science, consciousness, meaning, and even A.I. On one side stands reductionism. On the other side stand many forms of anti-reductionism, trying to preserve depth, meaning, and human dignity. The concept of coherence suggests another possibility. Instead of asking only what things are made Read the full article…
Intelligence in Coherence: Practical Applications
Many discussions about artificial intelligence start from intelligence itself. How powerful is it? How fast? How accurate? However, as complexity increases, organizations, professions, and societies do not merely need just more intelligence. When Coherence Becomes Intelligent explores intelligence not as something standing apart from coherence, but as something emerging from within it. This blog explores Read the full article…
When Coherence Becomes Intelligent
Coherence can be found throughout nature. Intelligence appears much later and much more selectively. Nature seems capable of generating vast amounts of coherence without necessarily generating intelligence. Rather than treating intelligence as something separate, this blog explores it as an emergence within coherence itself. The central question is not merely where intelligence comes from, but Read the full article…
Coherence as a Multi-Level Phenomenon
Molecules form cells, words form sentences, individuals form cultures… Levels are everywhere. We encounter them in biology, language, psychology, society, and science. Usually, we notice what happens within them but rarely ask how they arise. This blog explores a far-reaching possibility. Perhaps coherence does not merely operate within levels. Perhaps it is one of the Read the full article…
Is All Related to All (in Depth)?
When people speak about depth, they usually point downward, as if depth were a matter of digging ever deeper into a single thing. Yet lived experience suggests that the deeper something becomes, the more broadly it tends to connect with other things. Meaningfulness, wisdom, meditation, poetry, and even science all point in the same direction: Read the full article…
Coherence, Basically
Coherence is one of those words that many people use intuitively. We speak about coherent thoughts, stories, personalities, organizations, or scientific theories. Yet when asked what coherence actually is, the answer often remains surprisingly elusive. This may not be accidental. Some concepts are easier to recognize than to define: life, intelligence, meaning… Coherence seems to Read the full article…
Coherence, the Path to Real A.I.
Artificial Intelligence has achieved remarkable successes while leaving some of its deepest questions unresolved. What exactly is intelligence, and why does it arise where it does? This blog explores the possibility that coherence may play an important role in the answer ― a path toward understanding both intelligence and the future development of A.I. This Read the full article…
About the (In)visibility of Coherence
Coherence appears in learning, intelligence, science, creativity, growth, and meaningful human connection. Yet it is rarely discussed as a central principle in its own right. Why is something seemingly so important so difficult to notice? This blog explores several reasons why coherence may remain hidden — and how it may gradually become visible. This blog Read the full article…
Is Learning a Matter of Coherence Seeking?
Learning is one of the most familiar aspects of life. We encounter it in children, in education, in science, and increasingly in artificial intelligence. Yet the deeper one looks, the less obvious it becomes what learning actually is. Perhaps learning is not only about acquiring information, adapting to circumstances, improving performance, or reducing mistakes. What Read the full article…
Intelligence: 6, 3, or 1?
Intelligence is often discussed as if everyone agrees on what it is. Yet when we look closer, things become more complicated. Is intelligence about learning? About reasoning? About planning? Or perhaps about induction, deduction, and abduction? This raises an intriguing question. Is intelligence best understood as at least six different things, as three things, or Read the full article…
Is Compassionate A.I. Efficient?
Compassion sounds ethical, humane, perhaps even soft. Efficiency sounds practical, competitive, and results-focused. Put the two together, and many people instinctively expect a compromise. Yet perhaps Compassion is not a limitation on efficiency but its deepest form. To see this, we need to look more closely at what efficiency really means, what games we are Read the full article…
From Cognitive Dissonance to Active Denial
Cognitive dissonance is a familiar experience. Most people know the discomfort of holding two conflicting ideas at the same time. Yet this discomfort can lead in different directions. Sometimes it opens the door to growth. Sometimes it becomes the beginning of active denial: a self-reinforcing pattern that may shape individuals, groups, institutions, and even entire Read the full article…
Compassion Everywhere
Compassion is often misunderstood. Some see it as softness, others as charity, still others as a luxury that disappears when life becomes serious. Yet Compassion may be much deeper – and broader – than any of these. If taken seriously, it may have something to say about nearly every domain of human life — from Read the full article…