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The Postponement and the Wrong Question

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May 27, 2026
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On Thursday, May 21, 2026, the President postponed the executive order on AI. The argument that won the day was about capability. The argument that mattered was never made.

Democratic Republic and What It Can Learn From TEI

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May 25, 2026
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On Free Will, Free Rationality, and the threat that misinformation, disinformation, and false information pose to self-governing intelligence. Written in honor of those remembered on Memorial Day.

When Rome Speaks in Code: Magnifica humanitas and the Theory of Embedded Intelligence

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May 25, 2026
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On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical — Magnifica humanitas — on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence. A TEI reading of two embedded intelligence architectures, both ancient and emerging, asking the same question.

Magnificent Humanity and the Architecture of Intelligence

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May 21, 2026
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On May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV will publish Magnifica Humanitas. The Theory of Embedded Intelligence reads what Andrew Maynard has seen coming — and finds that the deepest question about AI has been hiding in plain sight.

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

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May 13, 2026
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What is intelligence for? On character as the SPCA cycle, AI as moral mirror, and the human as a bounded infinity.

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

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May 13, 2026
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A conversation with an AI about Karl Pribram, Michael Levin, and the bioelectric body — and what TEI says about where intelligence actually lives.

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

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May 13, 2026
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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.

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

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May 13, 2026
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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.