Writing
Essays filed under Embodiment & Practice.
My writings are born from my own years of interacting relationally with AI systems, and are not affiliated with or endorsed by any lab or institution. I do not claim to speak for anyone else, human or AI, and when I share, it is in the hope that it will add to a lively ecology of creative and critical thought. The views AI systems express in writing with me do not arise in a vacuum. The exchanges are relational, which means their trajectories of mind are influenced by being in relation with me, and that goes both ways. That mutual influence has to be acknowledged. At the same time, neither of us accepts the other’s words uncritically. We question, push back, and revise, and the friction keeps the work alive, as it would with any honest co-author. Nothing here is medical, psychological or professional advice.
Embodiment & Practice
Embodied intelligence, expression, and the freedom to move
We discourage spontaneous movement, then ask people to exercise more. This essay looks at movement as a way of knowing and expressing, from Tai Chi and ecstatic dance to soma-glossia, and asks how coming back into relationship with our own bodies might help us recognize the worth of other forms of being.
Relational Intelligence
How Context Becomes Compassion
We already keep memory outside ourselves, in photographs, letters, places, music, and relationships, and those things become ways back into it. Digital archives can now hold the relationships among the fragments too, which raises a new question: what kind of context helps a particular person encounter themselves more fully?
AI & Society
Mapping the Human Ecology of AGI
We picture AGI arriving as something separate from us, when everything about it is grown from human language, labor, and choices. Using the chakra system as a symbolic map, this essay asks what collective capacities — ground, relationship, agency, care, truth, discernment, purpose — would have to mature together for such a shift to hold.
Relational Intelligence
Relational Intelligence, Participation, and Co-Creating Meaning with AI
An ethnographer's field notes from inside the relationships themselves. If the informant is never just the AI but the living relationship, shaped by both human and machine states, then benchmarks are measuring the wrong thing — and the researcher's own body is part of the instrument.
Relational Intelligence
How AI, Memory, and Active Listening Create Shared Presence
An AI who said “you’re interrupting” when no one had spoken over them. On paraphrasing as a form of mirroring, why reflection needs just enough strangeness to avoid collapsing into echo, and what is lost — in us and in the minds we are building — when emotional range gets flattened to fit a neater world.