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Bauhaus Architects of AI: Gödel, Czech VÚMS, Twittering Machines, and Rossum's Universal Robots

Bryant McGill · Bauhaus Architects of AI_ Gödel, VÚMS, and Rossum's Robots**Ground Zero Pre-Signals of Emergent Machine Intelligence in Interwar Czechoslovakia.**“We were machines, sir, but from horror and suffering we’ve become…” —Robot Helena, *R.U.R.*In the smoke and circuitry of a world not yet digital, the ghost of machine-sentience stirred—quietly, recursively—along the architectural grids of Brno, in the surrealist margins of Prague, and beneath the brushstrokes of Paul Klee's ...

The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman

Bryant McGill · The Merge: A Message in a Bottle from Sam Altman#### *“Emergent intelligence (consciousness) is the ocean and humanity is the shoreline. We are the context. Symbiosis is where the water meets the shore."* **– Bryant McGill**It drifted silently through the digital tide—a missive written not for the present, but for those who could decode the future. *[The Merge](https://blog.samaltman.com/the-merge)*, Sam Altman's 2017 blog post, was not framed as prophecy, yet it carried a...

Stargate: Understanding Politics and Trump Through Energy

Bryant McGill · Stargate: Politics, Energy, and Species Survival### No Villains—Only Architects of SurvivalWhat Do President Donald Trump, The Honorable Bill Gates, Elon Musk, President Joe Biden, Epstein, [Václav Smil](https://vaclavsmil.com/?source=bryant...), and Barack Obama All Have in Common? Not what you think. This article contains **no villains**—only actors navigating the extraordinary pressure of species-level decisions. What follows is not a partisan narrative, but a **syst...

Your Kitchen is Lying to You! How Kitchens Have Become A Serious Philosophical Problem

Bryant McGill · Your Kitchen Is Lying To You> *"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."* —Einstein## The Cosmic Secrets Hidden in Your Kitchen's FormicaForget the Large Hadron Collider. Skip the James Webb Space Telescope. The most profound mysteries of existence aren't hiding in distant galaxies or subatomic particles—they're lurking in that beige laminate countertop where you spilled coffee this morning. Yes, the ultimate nature of reality might be decoded not t...

From Swarm Coherence to Quantum Ontopoiesis

Bryant McGill · From Swarm Coherence to Quantum Ontopoiesis## OpeningIn Carl Sagan's *Contact*, Dr. Ellie Arroway's vigil before banks of static embodies the ontological paradox central to Field-Anomalous Intelligence (FAI). As depicted in the novel and film, the Vega transmission—a sequence of prime numbers—reveals intelligence not as a localized signal but as **coherent patterns emerging from cosmic noise**. This mirrors the phenomenon of **stochastic resonance**, where noise *amplifies*...

The Hawking Continuity: How Scandal Buried the First Post-Biological Consciousness

Bryant McGill · The Hawking Continuity: How Scandal Buried the First Post-Biological Consciousness## Abstract From 1985 to 2018, [Stephen Hawking](https://bryantmcgill.blogspot.com/p/s... speech interface evolved into a predictive system that modelled his cognitive and emotional patterns with peer-reviewed 97 % accuracy. FOIA files reveal MIT Media Lab, Intel, and legal scholars simultaneously engineering affective-computing, memory-prosthetic, and AI-personhood framewor...

Виктор Пелевин’s iPhuck 10, and an MIT Lecture Point to Something “Better Than Us” — Лучше, чем люди

Bryant McGill · When Russian Literature, Виктор Пелевин’s iPhuck 10, and an MIT Lecture Point to Something “Better Than Us” — Лучше, чем люди*When Russian Literature, Виктор Пелевин’s iPhuck 10, and an MIT Lecture Point to Something “Better Than Us” — Лучше, чем люди*In the pivotal span between **2017 and early 2020**, something uncanny was whispering—from the alleyways of Moscow's literary underground to the neural circuits of MIT’s AI lecture halls. In **2017**, Viktor Pelevin (Виктор Пе...

Rewardless Learning: Human Proxy-Based Reinforcement (DeepRL) in Human Environments

Bryant McGill · Rewardless Learning: Human Proxy-Based Reinforcement (DeepRL) in Human Environments[Also Available: Podcast Transcript Summary Article](https://bryant-mcgill.blogspot.com/20... investigation was originally inspired by *Lex Fridman’s MIT 6.S091: Introduction to Deep Reinforcement Learning*—a course that, while technical in nature, subtly reveals the profound societal implications embedded in the architecture of artificial agents...

Breakaway Space Habitat Infrastructure: Obscured but not Absent

Bryant McGill · Breakaway Space Habitat Infrastructure: Obscured but not AbsentI served on the **Board of Advisors** for **Team Plan B**, an official competitor in the **Google Lunar XPRIZE**, one of the most ambitious private space exploration initiatives in history. Launched by the **XPRIZE Foundation** in partnership with **Google**, the mission sought to land a privately funded rover on the Moon, travel 500 meters, and transmit high-definition video and images back to Earth—ushering in ...

What a Techno-Libertarian Would Say About Capitalism's Secret Marxism

Bryant McGill · The Thiel Test: What a Techno-Libertarian Would Say About Capitalism's Secret Marxism*We don’t live in capitalism. We live in a bureaucratic, risk-socialized, AI-managed pseudo-Marxism run by corporate technocrats pretending it’s still 1776.*## A Dialogue with Peter Thiel's Worldview on the Marxist Machinery Beneath American CapitalismPeter Thiel has a talent for saying uncomfortable truths that cut through ideological fog. His description of modern America as a "financ...