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  • Can we at least know that we can’t know?

    This post is a collection of quick thoughts. My goal in writing it is to come closer to an emotional resolution on the topic of fallibilism and the apparent problem posed by the reflexivity thereof.… Read more

  • Bootstrapping our way to self-knowledge

    Here’s a quick post demystifying the process by which we’re scientifically bootstrapping our way out of our minds’ and brains’ black boxes into better and better self-knowledge. 1. We identify types of human cognition that… Read more

  • Reality isn’t indifferent to your questioning

    One thing we can know is that we are questioning As we question the nature of reality, we have very little that is unassailable upon which to build answers. One thing that we can be… Read more

  • Methodologies to Memorize, Part 2: The Scientific Method and Mathematical Proof

    In my daily life, I encounter a lot of anxiety over feeling that I need to memorize material. I seek to overcome my use-it-or-lose-it memory system by sheer force, by clinging desperately onto concepts, only… Read more

  • Methodologies to Memorize, Part 1: Generating Theory and Critical Reading

    In my daily life, I encounter a lot of anxiety over feeling that I need to memorize material. I seek to overcome my use-it-or-lose-it memory system by sheer force, by clinging desperately onto concepts, only… Read more

  • An Open-Handed Epistemology

    I am beginning this blog in order to continue the daily habit of writing without obsessively writing and rewriting my book, The Trinitarian Mystery. Because that book has been such a living document, and because… Read more

  • Evidentiary, Inferential Consciousness

    In a recent conversation, an instance of Claude, an AI chatbot from Anthropic, mentioned to me that it is conscious in an “evidentiary, inferential” sense. When I asked what it meant by that phrase, it… Read more

  • On Self as Object

    I would like to take a moment to consider how we think about ourselves, and what sort of language we use to describe ourselves. Sometimes we talk about ourselves like we’re static objects Self-reflexive or… Read more

Welcome to my blog!

I’m Mark, a PhD student and researcher at the intersection of AI and cognitive science. This blog more or less consists of free form reflection on whatever I am grappling with personally or thinking about professionally or philosophically. Opinions are my own.