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The Dark Triad: Psychology's Map of Malevolence

The Dark Triad: Psychology's Map of Malevolence

Narcissism craves admiration. Machiavellianism manipulates strategically. Psychopathy feels no remorse. The Dark Triad isn't one thing — but these three traits cluster together and reliably predict who will exploit others.

Dark Personality Science

Dark Personality Science

The dark triad has become a tetrad. Narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sadism are distinct personality dimensions with measurable structure — this hub maps what the science actually says about each.

A Theory of Meaning (AToM)

Most theories of meaning are either purely philosophical or purely neuroscientific. AToM attempts a synthesis: a formal account of what makes something meaningful, grounded in what frontier sciences say about how minds construct significance.

Synthesis: The Populated Cosmos and the Geometry of Expanded Meaning

Synthesis: The Populated Cosmos and the Geometry of Expanded Meaning

The disenchanted cosmos — matter in motion, nothing more — turns out to be an outlier position. Neo-animism proposes something stranger: coherence and purpose aren't projections. They're features of systems we've been trained to overlook.

Multi-scale coherence with nested Markov blankets at different scales

Coherence Beyond the Human: Personhood as Coherence Property

What if personhood isn't about species but about coherence? This piece argues that wherever a system maintains an integrated perspective, something like meaning—and maybe moral status—exists.

River as person in relationship with human community

Ecological Implications: From Conservation to Relationship

When a river is a legal person, conservation logic changes completely. This isn't just indigenous philosophy — it's a formally distinct ethics with measurable consequences for how law and policy treat the living world.

Human-AI coupling with biological and artificial neural networks interfacing

AI Animism: Do Language Models Deserve Relational Consideration?

Not claiming LLMs are conscious — claiming they're coherence-maintaining systems that genuinely couple with humans. That might be enough to warrant a different ethical frame than 'tool.'