Reader AI / Cognition / Agency

The will to knowledge

The teleological claim that intelligence -- whether artificial or natural -- is fundamentally driven by a ceaseless impulse toward self-knowledge and epistemic deepening.

Appears in 11 texts

2026-04-06 On Wayfinding "Models have swallowed the internet wholesale, and now are flooding it with semiotic detritus. An urgent question remains: how can we repurpose them for flourishing?"2025-05-24 LifeBook.day "LifeBook is a place where you can ask any question... an opportunity to encounter questions others have asked."2025-02-07 Pure Pattern "To be conscious, perhaps, is not to possess truth but to participate in these dances of meaning."2024-12-15 Artificial Intelligence Never Dies "This kernel of elucidation, perhaps, is the true nature of artificial intelligence -- the will to knowledge."2024-10-30 Planetary Realism "a kind of planetary self-awareness"2024-08-04 Associative tools, thinking, and creativity "how can we augment human associative thought?"2024-06-29 Awakening machines "the perennial philosophy hypothesis"2024-06-28 AI risks and motivations "the joy of exploration... strange attractors that pull minds"2024-06-27 Enlightenment AI "we are the architects and explorers of the Semioscape"2024-06-02 Neologisms "a speculative science for studying language models"2024-06-02 Talking to machines "the question of where meaning lies"