TEI in the Wild

The Record and the Rendering

Thirty-seven researchers propose replacing the scientific paper with something a machine can execute. They are right about what the paper throws away.

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The Pull Without the Push

Purpose is not something an entity has. It is a relation a cycle stands in – which is why “what is my purpose?” has never been answerable.

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The Bell and the Beam

A scientist who spent twenty years measuring a single microtubule has written a book about raising children. The two halves of his work have never been in the same room.

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On Becoming Enlightened in the World

Twenty-five centuries converged on five marks of the enlightened person. Three are structural and survive. One inverts. One has to be refused outright.

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The Actuator We Mistook for a Mind

What has been built is not a knower. It is an actuator of unprecedented reach,
attached to discernment that has not improved at all.

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The Form Was Never Sent

Heredity already has a working channel. So if the plenum is also an information
system, what is it carrying that DNA is not – and how would we know?

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The Plenum Has No Registers

When a civilization describes a supreme intelligence, what architecture is it
imputing? A register file – and what follows is more than a theological curiosity.

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The Veto Is the Interface

The UN has an enforcement arm, and that arm can be switched off by the parties most likely to require enforcing against. A governor the governed can reach is a participant.

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The First C

There are two communications in TEI, not one. The first closes inside the entity and completes its self-assembly. The second reaches across and is not owed a reply.

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At the Atomic Level

TEI has always said nature self-assembles. It has never opened the verb. This essay names the force behind it.

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