Indigenous wisdom, biomimicry, and the Theory of Embedded Intelligence in partnership — and why reciprocity is the load-bearing structure of that alliance.
The Next Axial Age, on its own most thoughtful telling, is a story about embeddedness — and TEI offers rigorously what the sages reach toward intuitively.
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.
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.
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.