Consciousness and the Algorithm: Reflections on AGI, Projection, and the Future of Humanity

How AGI Reflects Our Inner Terrain—and Why Presence Must Guide Progress

The first time I sat with the full implications of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), I wasn’t staring at a glowing screen or a graph-laden research report. I was sitting in silence, as I often do, returning to that place within that watches thought arise then disappear without ever attempting to cling to it. And it struck me—not as a technical brea…