Awareness Featured Water Is the Medium A companion to the video - Episode 009 Before we built anything. Before we planted anything. Before we wrote anything down. There was water. Open the first page of Genesis. Before light, before land, before any living thing — the Spirit of God hovers over the waters. Not over dry ground, not
The Turn Inward Featured Seek to Know Your True Self A companion to the video - Episode 005 Most of what we know about ourselves is borrowed. A name someone gave us. A story assembled from memory. Roles we stepped into child, student, professional, parent that accumulated over time into something that feels like an identity. None of that is wrong.
The Turn Inward Featured What Edison Caught Falling Asleep A companion to the video - Episode 004 There is a statue of Thomas Edison at his winter residence in Fort Myers, Florida. If you look carefully at his left hand, he is holding a steel ball. Most visitors walk past it without knowing what it means. It looks like a
The Turn Inward Featured The Dance A companion piece on the image, and what it's pointing at Look at her for a second before you read anything else. One figure, sketched in pencil and ink: windswept, reaching, caught mid-stride in the particular strain of a body in motion. Beside her, the same figure
The Turn Inward Featured The X Is Where You Are Standing You are the treasure the map was always pointing toward. There is a story so old it barely needs telling. A man finds a map. It promises something extraordinary: a treasure, marked with an X, hidden somewhere far from where he stands. He sets out. He crosses mountains. He follows
AI and Humanity Featured The Self Is Not a Noun. It's a Verb. Right now, without trying, you are being a self. Narrating your experience. Monitoring how you're perceived. Replaying the past. You didn't decide to do any of that. It's just running. Neuroscience has a name for the system responsible, and it turns out the ancient world got there first.
The Turn Inward Featured The Turn Inward Artificial intelligence can now do what we do. That fact has produced the one question our tools have never before been able to force upon us: If the machine can do what I do, then what am I? That question is what this project is about.
