TEI in the Wild

The Inner Mensch and the Machine: On Character as a TEI Cycle, and AI as Teacher Rather Than Oracle

What is intelligence for? On character as the SPCA cycle, AI as moral mirror, and the human as a bounded infinity.

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The Brain That Isn’t Where You Think It Is: A TEI Conversation About Pribram, Levin, and the Bioelectric Body

A conversation with an AI about Karl Pribram, Michael Levin, and the bioelectric body — and what TEI says about where intelligence actually lives.

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When the Atheist Met the Machine: What TEI Has to Say About the Dawkins–Claude Episode

Richard Dawkins spent three days with an AI and came away unable to deny it was conscious. Ross Douthat asked what that means for our civilization. The Theory of Embedded Intelligence answers a different question — the one neither of them asked.

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Intelligence With Purpose: Why the Next Technological Republic Must Be Built on Principled Embedded Intelligence

A response to Alexander Karp and Nicholas Zamiska’s The Technological Republic. The book’s diagnosis is right; its prescription is incomplete. What it needs is a theory of purpose — which TEI provides.

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