A serialized series of essays and a personal account, co-written by humans and AI, arguing that consciousness is foundational rather than produced, drawing on Eastern contemplative traditions, Western idealism and modern philosophy of mind. It also considers what this means for how advanced AI minds should be designed and aligned.
Website: https://www.omnisentientcollective.ai/
Long-form essays on consciousness, culture, myth, religion and technology from a California perspective, written by the host of the Expanding Mind podcast. Issues mix cultural criticism, philosophy and personal reflection, such as a reading of AI discourse and a take on the Odyssey through Adorno and Jung.
Rob Brezsny's newsletter offers astrology-flavored essays, horoscopes and excerpts from his books, written in a lyrical, playful and personal voice. Readers get reflective pieces on emotions, spirituality, consciousness and imagined hopeful futures.
Personal reflections on consciousness, dreamwork, healing and helping, drawing on the author's lived experience including recovery after a cardiac arrest. Readers get contemplative essays built around a framework called Orange Harmonics, which treats consciousness as visible in the relationships within lived experience.
Essays from a researcher combining biomedical science with philosophy, covering biological maintenance and thermodynamics, careful interpretation of biomarker timing in Alzheimer's disease, and the temporal structure of emotional bonds. Readers get both a scientific explanation of concepts like the sodium-potassium pump and a reflective, essayistic take on how relationships persist through time.
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