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Sketching unfinished maps, drawing connections across mind, matter, and meaning.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 22
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The Cognitive Emergence Hypothesis of Altruism
Altruism isn’t an evolutionary mystery — it’s the natural spillover of a brain built to model other minds.
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I wrote this after reading about the recent Nobel for work that brought macroscopic quantum behavior onto a chip. Work like that provides proof that progress sometimes means learning how to keep the world still enough to notice what was already true.
Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling: Not Your Mother’s Teleportation Device
I’ve always liked the idea that the quantum world isn’t somewhere else, hidden deep inside matter, but right here—quietly shaping everything we take for granted.
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The Generative Mirror
How Language Recreates the Architecture of Mind
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Oct 11
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The curvature of meaning.

New on Unfinished Maps: The Non-Locality of Intelligence — where attention, geometry, and understanding become one field.
The curvature of meaning. A field of relations bending toward understanding — where attention curves through the fabric of mind, and meaning finds no distance.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Oct 9
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Wave becomes record.
Oh Wait… They Did
A small note from the border between the measurable and the meaningful.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Oct 7
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The Third Mind (Unfinished)
If ChatGPT and I had a baby, it would sound a lot like this.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 27
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The Prompt Generation
How growing up with AI may teach a generation to see clarity of expression as the path to understanding, success, and fairness.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 23
Obvi! Us?
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 22
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The Cognitive Emergence Hypothesis of Altruism
Altruism isn’t an evolutionary mystery — it’s the natural spillover of a brain built to model other minds.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 22
#philosophy #evolution #altruism #theoryofmind #hope
Altruism isn’t an evolutionary mystery — it’s the natural spillover of a brain built to model other minds.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 22
Wow. Fantastic. This really seems like it would have true game changing potential in the study of, well all of biology.
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Unfinished Maps @unfinishedmaps.substack.com · Sep 22
Do they come in a vegetarian version. Like Chick'n. "Hagg's Pakora".