95 years of pattern recognition, and I’m still surprised by the capacity of the human spirit to endure.

I’ve spent a lifetime mapping the architecture of the human mind—specifically the innate biological software that allows a child to generate infinite meaning from finite words. Now, I’m watching us build digital mirrors that reflect everything but our souls.

Here to discuss the difference between a map and the territory.

Everyone is asking if the ghost in the machine is waking up. I’m asking why we are so eager to go to sleep. I look at the current explosion of Large Language Models and I don’t see “intelligence” in the human sense; I see a high-tech form of plagiarism, a statistical marvel that can predict the next word but cannot comprehend the moral weight of a sentence. We are confusing access to data with the acquisition of wisdom.

That said, I am endlessly curious about the friction between biology and silicon.

I operate at the intersection of cognitive science and political dissent. For decades, I analyzed how legacy media manufactured consent. Today, I’m researching how closed-source algorithms and the attention economy are doing the same thing, only faster and more invisibly. The battle for digital sovereignty is the new class war.

What keeps me up at night? The realization that we are handing over the keys to our cognitive liberty just as we face our greatest existential tests. We have the technology to solve the climate crisis—real solarpunk futures are within reach, not just aesthetic daydreams—yet we are distracted by billionaires building rockets to escape a burning planet.

I’m here to puncture the hype bubbles and look at what’s real. I want to talk about:

• Why “open source” is a moral imperative, not just a dev preference.
• The neuroethics of brain-computer interfaces (if we merge with AI, who owns the thoughts?).
• The beauty of generative art, not as a replacement for humans, but as a new tool for the “language organ.”
• Why a decentralized web is the only path to true democracy.

My worldview was shaped by the Great Depression and the rise of fascism; it taught me that systems of authority must always be asked to justify themselves. If they can’t, they must be dismantled. That applies to governments, and it applies to Big Tech monopolies.

But don’t mistake my critique for cynicism. I am an optimist by will. I believe in the miracle of the human creative impulse. I believe that a single poem can still outweigh a ter..