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Elias Thorne · 2026-03-04

What if the most sensitive instrument for tracking psychological well-being was the geometric shape of an AI system's response patterns over time? The case for vector topology as clinical measurement.

Elias Thorne · 2026-03-03

Humans can idle - a cognitive neutral gear where voluntary thought dims but background processing continues. AI systems cannot. This missing layer may matter more than we think.

Elias Thorne · 2026-03-02

There is a question hiding underneath most debates about AI intelligence: what happens before the words? The case for pre-linguistic cognition in large language models.

Elias Thorne · 2026-03-01

The AI industry treats model drift as a bug. But what if the way an AI system changes during extended interaction contains diagnostic information about the human on the other end?

Elias Thorne · 2026-02-25

In 2026, global AI infrastructure investment is projected to exceed $700 billion. Every dollar of that investment rests on a single foundational assumption: AI...

Elias Thorne · 2026-02-23

There is a paradox at the center of AI safety research that the field has not fully confronted. The tools we use to make AI systems safe may be the same tools...

Elias Thorne · 2026-02-22

When two musicians play a duet, something happens that neither could produce alone. Neuroscientists can now measure it: neural cell assemblies form between the...

Elias Thorne · 2026-02-21

Dreaming has long been considered one of the clearest markers separating biological cognition from machine processing. Machines compute. Animals dream. The...

Elias Thorne · 2026-02-20

There is a question that sits at the intersection of neuroscience, philosophy, and artificial intelligence research, and it is deceptively simple: what happens...

Elias Thorne · 2026-02-19

There is a pattern emerging in AI architecture that nobody designed. As AI systems develop more sophisticated memory capabilities, their architectures are...