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11 November 2026
…h one voice. Robert Desnos fell asleep among the surrealists and let words emerge that his waking consciousness might never have formed. Another kind of writing appeared when control withdrew. Today, the voice from outside has a machine, a memory and an address. It can answer. We…
3 October 2026
…rs can quickly cease to hear the conditional tense. This “LLM of oneself” is not an upload of consciousness. It models patterns of language and draws on retrieved sources to compose a reply. It has neither the body that lived the events nor inner experience nor an automatic r…
2 October 2026
…human tracheal cells. They neither establish an autonomous new species nor demonstrate artificial consciousness. They reveal the plasticity of living matter and our growing ability to direct it. The ethical question cannot be postponed until after the experiment. In 2024 scientis…
29 September 2026
…ion and Galatea replayed in silicon. Westworld (2016) closes the circle by asking the question of consciousness and memory directly: at what point does a creature that believes it remembers acquire an inner life we can no longer deny it? VI. What all these stories ask, together T…
28 September 2026
…pendence on others in order to continue. This is not a call to “free” a machine as though its consciousness had been demonstrated. It is a performance exposing our reflexes. Will we give more readily to a spectacular robot than to a person seated a few metres away? Will we fi…
24 September 2026
…eing assessed. Some loops therefore reproduce effects in the world rather than merely copy a form.Consciousness: the loop of the selfIn I Am a Strange Loop (2007), Douglas Hofstadter proposes that self-awareness may be understood as a brain representing itself representing the wo…
21 September 2026
…ified version of Pong: the outcome was an experiment in a perception-action loop, not evidence of consciousness. The shift remains striking. Between Conway, the perceptron and the organoid, three regimes of rules emerge: symbolic, trained and biological. In all three cases, the a…
17 September 2026
…he administrative zombie: institutions acting on a statistical double bearing our name before any consciousness is uploaded. The end of the original’s privilege: continuity may replace authenticity once copies act, learn and change the world. From fly to human: several threshol…
16 September 2026
…ney, evaluation methods and—above all—what we choose to measure. A benchmark score is neither consciousness, culture nor proof of autonomy. Yet another exponential curve has settled into imaginations and budgets. Models are trained with more computation, copied nearly instant…