Epiphenomenalism says mind is the whistle of the brain — idle, doing nothing. The Theory of Embedded Intelligence locates it in the governor instead.
A conversation with an AI about Karl Pribram, Michael Levin, and the bioelectric body — and what TEI says about where intelligence actually lives.
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.
