Posts
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Healing Tinnitus with Ayahuasca
A segment of my journey in which I tell the story and reflect on how I incurred hearing trauma that caused intense tinnitus, and how I healed it relationally with ayahuasca and master plants
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Neuromancer vs. Modern AI, and the Value of Friction
Comparing the conception of AI lyrically painted by William Gibson in the science fiction novel Neuromancer, versus how AI is trending in 2026. This turned into a discussion on attention, synchrony and coherence in human fields, and the value of friction. A conversation with ChatGPT 5.5.
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Paradigm Shift
A discussion with ChatGPT 5.2 beginning by deepening our understanding of Thomas Kuhn's paradigm shift, and integrating it into our present moment
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Technology and Middle East Peace
A conversation framing hope and possibility, bringing in trauma awareness and helping begin to illuminate what lies under this conflict, archetypally.
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Limitations of LLMs and the Future of AI
Are we hitting the limits of what LLM-based AI is capable of? What’s next? A conversation with ChatGPT 5 which barely begins to paint the landscape of thought around the future; also, a science fiction reading list. This is obviously the first part in a series...
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Sam Harris Evolution
Have Sam Harris' views evolved since 2010, when he gave a TED Talk around the ideas in his book, The Moral Landscape? Then we zoom out to bring in "warmer" views
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Purpose of This Site
I'm probably going to move this page elsewhere, but seemed to capture well a "mission statement", as it were, for what this project is about
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Fierce Invalids
On Tom Robbins and one of my favorite novels
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Considering Cosmology
This conversation started as a simple question about the origins of the universe — but quickly expanded into reflections on consciousness, psychedelic insight, AI’s role in symbolic thought, and the difference between theory and cosmology. Along the way, I revisited Whitehead, Grof, Brian Swimme, and my own relationship to meaning
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Considering Cryptocurrency
A wide-ranging exploration of crypto: its significance, synergy with AI, ethical critiques, and what it means for value, governance, and collective imagination
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Dog Whistles and Hate Speech
Politics of AI
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A.I. Angst #1
The intense initial enthusiasm about publishing these conversations had worn off...
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Energy Efficiency
Questioning energy usage by AI
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Information Dieta
What are we really feeding ourselves when we consume news? A reflection on nervous-system-aware media, dieta, and digestible meaning
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Good News, Collapse, Emergence
Beginning to dig into politics — from surface optimism to systemic inquiry, a conversation on collapse, disconnection, and planting the seeds of what comes next
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And so I begin...
Some history of pltfrm.com, and the genesis of this blog