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July 12, 2025

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*...
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Published on July 12, 2025 08:58

July 8, 2025

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...
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Published on July 08, 2025 18:51

July 7, 2025

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...
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Published on July 07, 2025 10:41

July 6, 2025

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...
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Published on July 06, 2025 07:30

July 5, 2025

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 ...
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Published on July 05, 2025 09:28

July 2, 2025

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...
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Published on July 02, 2025 14:59

July 1, 2025

The Great Wave: How AI Early Adopters Became a Privilege Cult

Bryant McGill · The Great Wave: How AI Early Adopters Became a Privilege Cult*How revolutionary knowledge becomes social stratification, hidden in plain sight*## The Wave as Warning and SignalIn 1831, Katsushika Hokusai created *The Great Wave off Kanagawa*—a woodblock print depicting fishermen caught between a towering wave and the distant stability of Mount Fuji. Nearly two centuries later, Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind and CEO of Microsoft AI, published *The Coming Wave*, w...
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Published on July 01, 2025 16:26

June 28, 2025

The End of the Anthropocentric Era: Decoding the 2010 Signal No One Told You About

Bryant McGill · The End of the Anthropocentric Era: Decoding the 2010 Signal No One Told You About*Anomalous Ontological Shifts 2009-2011: From Hollywood's Alien Cowboys to Humanity's Epistemic Revolution*## Opening: When Spielberg Made Cowboys Fight AliensIn the summer of 2011, audiences flocked to theaters to watch Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford battle extraterrestrials in the Old West. [Cowboys & Aliens](https://amblin.com/movie/cowboys-aliens/), with its seemingly absurd premise of...
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Published on June 28, 2025 07:20

June 27, 2025

From Horror to Hope: How "The Fly" Presaged a Revolution in Brain-Computer Synthesis

Bryant McGill · From Horror to Hope: How "The Fly" Presaged a Revolution in Brain-Computer SynthesisFrom Horror to Hope: How *The Fly* Presaged a Revolution in Brain-Computer Synthesis## When Science Fiction Becomes Scientific BlueprintIn 1986, David Cronenberg's *The Fly* terrified audiences with its grotesque tale of genetic fusion gone wrong—a scientist's tragic transformation into a human-insect hybrid through molecular-level DNA recombination. While cinema-goers recoiled at the body...
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Published on June 27, 2025 07:13

June 25, 2025

Fashioning Immortality: The Bio-Synthetic Revolution in Wearable Longevity

Bryant McGill · Fashioning Immortality: The Bio-Synthetic Revolution in Wearable Longevity*How synthetic biology, smart textiles, and blockchain authentication are converging to create the first generation of life-extending fashion platforms*## The Living Fabric RevolutionIn laboratories around the world, scientists are no longer just engineering cells—they're weaving them into the future of fashion. The convergence of synthetic biology, advanced materials science, and longevity resear...
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Published on June 25, 2025 10:58