Thoughts: 2026-5 Nine Biological and Engineering Reasons Why AI Is Unlikely to Have Consciousness Physical organisms and mechanical hardware both leave physical,
The Essential Definition of Intelligence: Evolutionary and Developmental Origins of the Survival Domain DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6698958 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19997293 HighlightsDefines intelligence as survival-domain choice-space
Explanatory Breadth Without Criteria Is Not Explanation: Disciplined Generality in Scientific Theory Construction DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19822218 HighlightsThe paper defines criteria for disciplined theory
The Hierarchical Preservation Model of Decision-Making:Self-Relevance Encoding across Survival, Meaning, and Lineage–Collective Preservation DOI: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6667120 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19793295 HighlightsDecision-making is defined as reorganization within a
Thoughts: 2026-4 Does Competition Erase Parental Love, or Reallocate It? Recently, I came across a news article introducing the following paper:Rogers, F.D.,
Thoughts: 2026-3 What are the initial design requirements of a system that is not overly constrained by its era? These six principles
Thoughts: 2026-2 Microscopic reversibility: is it truly reversible? Today I had several doubts.In contemporary physics, topology transitions are often treated as reversible
The Recurrent Causal-Process Theory of Consciousness: Minimal Causal Agency under Biological Constraints DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6680038 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18756163Accepted for poster presentation at ASSC 29 (2026,
Thoughts: 2026-1 Environment-Modulated Reproductive Regulation A hypothesis sketch on sex-ratio shifts, reproductive withdrawal, and a maternal “weighted-coin” layerDisclaimer. This is a reasoning
Paper Review: 2025-2 Title: LLMs are Capable of Misaligned Behavior Under Explicit Prohibition and Surveillance Paper InfoAuthor: Igor IvanovarXiv:2507.02977Submitted on 30 Jun