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Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. We've come a long way. Twenty articles, starting with a simple claim: your brain isn't watching the

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Where does meaning live? The obvious answer: in your head. Meaning is something mental, something inside, something that happens in brains.

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. What does it mean for something to be alive? Not just to exist, but to persist. To maintain itself against the

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Something strange happened in artificial intelligence. For decades, AI research and neuroscience were strangers. Engineers built neural networks that bore only

Formative Note This essay represents early thinking by Ryan Collison that contributed to the development of A Theory of Meaning (AToM). The canonical statement of AToM is defined here. Something has gone wrong with disagreement. It used to be possible to argue with someone and then have lunch with them.