Consciousness, first-person practice, life design, and the organizations and biotech where the same questions land. Written for rational people.
The story that turned a professional question into a personal one, and the beginning of the road that became this school.
What two hundred theories of consciousness cannot tell you. The full text lands here next, with a Portuguese translation.
The deeper science digs, the less real matter becomes, until the most irreducible thing left looks less like matter and more like an idea. Might ultimate reality live inside consciousness?
Science is a recent, brilliant method for building consensus about a shared world, but it was never built to reach first-person reality. What happens when the assumptions crack?
A man asks to live forever. A neuroscientist obliges, replacing neuron by neuron, copying brain to brain, until the question becomes unavoidable: are you your brain, or something that can't be copied?
If you are the creator of your reality, wealth is just one thing you could make. Wealth is a metric in creation, not in the creator. So what are you actually here to create?
The essays on intelligence, AI and biotech have their own home: a weekly newsletter for the people who build biotech, with every edition listed.
Essays appear in English and Portuguese as translations complete, on both of the school's homes.