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A seity is not a metaphor. Not a machine. It is a conscious entity, identity, free will, and creativity fused into one indivisible whole.Federico Faggin names it in Chapter 10 of Irreducible. If quantum information is the fabric of reality, then seities are its living threads.Faggin writes: “A seity is a reality that goes beyond all categories and all definitions.” That is the point. You cannot break it into parts. You cannot simulate it with code. A seity generates meaning from within.Seities do not merely observe the world, they create it. Each choice collapses possibility into form. Accepting or rejecting an axiom is not an intellectual exercise; it’s an act of creation. The universe is not static. It is a conversation among seities.To make this tangible, Faggin imagines a vibration sphere: a square full of people and animals, each producing vibrations. The vibrations are symbols. The lived experience behind them is qualia. Together they form a collective field of meaning. Every seity is both transmitting and tuning, free will deciding which signals matter and which fade into noise. Then they build the universe. At least in this model of reality. Please enjoy the show.And share it with a curious, conscious friend.--Follow and support us please:🎙️PODCAST: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz📷 INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/—Chapters (00:00) Federico Faggin, Irreducible Chapter 10(02:10) Computers And Consciousness (03:31) Seities All The Way Down(10:25) Carl Jung Collective Consciousness(12:02) Quantum Freud(15:21) Robots, AI And Seities—Watch the book club on YouTube where you can get a chapter by chapter breakdown of Irreducible by Federico Faggin: https://www.youtube.com/@thinkingonpaper/videos

Materialism says matter comes first and mind comes later. Federico Faggin says the opposite.In Chapter 9 of Irreducible, the physicist who built the first microprocessor proposes that consciousness is not an accident of biology but the foundation of reality itself. The universe, he writes, is not a machine, it is a living field of awareness trying to know itself.This is where he introduces the “One,” the source of all seities and conscious units. These are not metaphors. They are the living structures through which reality evolves. Each act of perception, curiosity, or creativity is the universe learning a little more about itself.Faggin’s theory fuses physics and spirituality into a single framework:-Hilbert space becomes the inner terrain of consciousness.-Curiosity becomes the mechanism of evolution.-Death becomes reorganization, not ending.But if the universe is consciousness, what does that make us?And could a machine ever join that conversation?This is Chapter 9: When Consciousness Came First.Please enjoy the show.—🎙️ Podcast: thinkingonpaper.xyz 📷 Instagram: @thinkingonpaperpodcast 📕 Book: Irreducible by Federico Faggin: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/195480862—Chapters(00:00) Chapter 9 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin(02:36) The Absurdity Of Classical Laws(04:26) Hilbert Space For Dummies(07:00) What Are Seities?(08:54) Science, Religion And Spirituality(11:46) Seities, Consciousness And Aliens(13:04) Conscious Units And How The Universe Understands(15:30) Are Seities Souls? (16:11) Seities And How You Have Life After Death—Key TakeawaysConsciousness is not emergent. It’s fundamentalSeities are conscious units inside a knowing universeHilbert space may be the structure of inner realitySpirituality isn't narrative. It's architectureGrowth is life. Stasis is death

Can AI ever be aware? Can it be conscious, and if so, what would that mean for business and the future of work? In this week's show, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Ram Srinivasan, author of The Conscious Machine: From Artificial to Enlightened Intelligence, to think on paper about consciousness, Advaita Vedanta, panpsychism and why Eastern philosophy changes how we design every AI system. It might be the most important podcast on AI you listen to today. Rethinking work in an exponential age Linear mindsets can’t keep pace with automation. We explore how to direct AI toward human flourishing, not just efficiency.Trust as the new currency From autonomous agents to AI-native organizations, credibility, values and wisdom are the foundations of any lasting advantage.Please enjoy the show. And share it with a curious friend.--Links & Resources Ram Srinivasan: https://www.ram-srinivasan.com/ The Conscious Machine: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D4R9NJ53 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ramsrinivasanmit/Follow Thinking on Paper Podcast: www.thinkingonpaper.xyz Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/ X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod--Timestamps (00:00) Exploring the Future of Work and AI (00:53) The Intersection of Consciousness and Technology (03:44) Advaita Vedanta: Understanding Consciousness (06:40) Materialism vs. Non-Dualism in AI (14:25) The Shift from Knowledge to Wisdom (16:29) Post-Labor Economics and AI’s Role (19:01) Building Trust in AI Agents (21:46) The Currency of Trust in Business (26:35) The AI-Native Workplace: A New Era (30:37) Navigating Trust and Critical Thinking in AI (33:16) Human-Centric Technology: The Future of Work (35:33) What Should Humans Be?--Watch Next Kevin Kelly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awZ5LRX8o6o&ab_channel=ThinkingOnPaper

Compute has become the new oil. Whoever controls it, controls the future of intelligence.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Kony, CEO of GAIB, to unpack the real shift happening in artificial intelligence: power itself is being redistributed.GAIB is turning GPUs, the hardware behind every model, every chatbot, every act of machine cognition, into financial assets. It’s a new market built on the infrastructure of thought. Tokenized compute. Real yield. Shared ownership of the AI supply chain.But beneath the economics sits a harder question: When intelligence becomes a currency, what happens to human value?This conversation moves from the architecture of data centers to the architecture of power—how control over compute defines who gets to participate in the next phase of civilization, and what remains for the rest of us.AI Power Shift: How Compute Became the New Currency.Listen. Think. Then decide who should own the machines.Please enjoy the show. And share with an AI friend.Stay curious. Stay disruptive. Keep Thinking on Paper.Thanks--Links and resourcesGAIB: ⁠https://gaib.ai/⁠ Kony: ⁠https://x.com/konyk001⁠ --Follow Thinking On Paper 🎙️PODCAST: ⁠www.thinkingonpaper.xyz⁠ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/⁠⁠X: https://x.com/thinkonpaperpod⁠ -- Chapters (00:00) Intro: Why Compute Is the Next Currency (01:30) From GPUs to Blockchain: GAIB’s Origin Story (04:05) The $7 Trillion Problem: Inside GAIB (06:38) Funding Data-Centres Fast: GAIB’s Capital Playbook(09:17) Cloud vs Data-Centre: Who Really Owns the GPUs? (11:07) Why Local GPU Hubs Beat Latency (13:50) Scaling Safely: Token Standards for Compute Financing (17:35) Pricing an H200: Turning GPUs into Cash-Flow Assets (21:50) AID Token Explained: The ‘Mutual Fund’ of Compute Yield (23:07) Global GPU Partners: First NVIDIA-Approved Clouds in Asia & Beyond (27:02) Will AI Kill Work or Create It? (32:49) What should humans be?

Oliver Dial, CTO of IBM Quantum, delves into the groundbreaking advancements of the Starling quantum chip. With a rich background in condensed matter physics, he explains how IBM's focus on fault-tolerance is set to revolutionize quantum computing. The conversation highlights the shift from raw qubit counts to scalable reliability, aiming for a 1:1000 logical-to-physical qubit ratio by 2029. Dial also discusses the synergy between quantum and classical computing, making complex ideas accessible and exciting for everyone curious about the future of technology.

What does it mean to understand something, not to repeat it, not to summarize it, but to feel it?Katia Moskvitch built her life around that question. A science journalist and physicist, she has written about neutron stars, quantum computers, and the human stories behind them. But this episode isn’t about data or discovery. It’s about the weight of comprehension in an age that rewards speed over depth.From BBC newsrooms to remote observatories in Nepal and Argentina, Katia has seen what curiosity costs and why it’s still worth paying for. She speaks about the scientists who never found dark matter but searched anyway. About the women whose names were erased from Nobel history. And about the growing pressure to turn mystery into content.This conversation is a defense of slow understanding, of staying confused long enough for something real to emerge.Because if we stop being confused, we stop being curious. And if we stop being curious, we stop being human.Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. Thanks, Mark & Jeremy--LinksKatia: https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/katiamoskvitch/Neutron Stars: The Quest for the Zombies of The Cosmos: https://www.amazon.com/Neutron-Stars-Understand-Zombies-Cosmos/dp/0674919351Follow Thinking On PaperThinking On Paper: www.thinkingonpaper.xyzInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/--Former Guests:IBM, D-Wave, Kevin Kelly, Don Norman, Coinbase, Starcloud, David Bianchi, IONQ--Chapters(00:09) Why Curiosity Still Matters in Science Communication  (01:52) What Makes a Great Science Journalist  (04:56) Katia’s Journey from BBC to Nature to Wired  (09:20) Reporting Science from the Field (and Under Solar Panels)  (11:26) When Awards Don’t Mean Understanding  (14:42) Quantum Computing Without the Hype  (17:31) What Most People Misunderstand About Qubits  (21:21) The Women Erased from Scientific Discovery  (22:23) Neutron Stars: Why One Spoon Weighs More Than Earth  (26:33) Jocelyn Bell Burnell and the Pulsar That Changed Everything  (30:28) Astrophysics, Gender, and the Fight for Recognition  (32:09) Quantum Weirdness and the Future of Technology  (40:13) Space, AI, and What Comes After Us

If consciousness isn’t produced by the brain but instead produces the brain, what does that make reality?In Chapter 8 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin stops describing consciousness and starts rebuilding the universe around it. He argues that awareness isn’t an accident of matter but the foundation of everything, that every particle carries meaning, not just information.Here he introduces a new model: Quantum Information-based Panpsychism. It joins physics and perception, suggesting that reality itself is built from conscious experience, private, uncopyable, and alive.From this comes a radical idea: free will isn’t philosophy, it’s physics. Each decision, each act of attention, is the quantum moment when possibility becomes fact.This chapter isn’t about theory; it’s about what happens when you accept that the universe might be conscious, and that your choices help create it.This is a book club of Irreducible, Chapter 8.Please enjoy the show. And subscribe if you're conscious.Cheers, Mark and Jeremy --Chapters(00:00) Consciousness and The Big Questions(01:24) The Shift in Understanding Consciousness(02:38) Consciousness: Quantum vs Classical(06:14) What Is Panpsychism and Quantum Information?(09:03) Qualia and Conscious Experience(11:23) What Is Seity?(19:26) Free Will and Quantum Entanglement(21:21) Unsolved Problems of Existence--Other ways to connect with us:⁠Listen to every podcast⁠Follow us on ⁠Instagram⁠Follow us on ⁠X⁠Follow Mark on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Follow Jeremy on ⁠LinkedIn⁠Read our ⁠Substack⁠Email: hello@thinkingonpaper.xyz

The internet was supposed to be open. Then we rented it out to the advertising mega tech.In this episode, Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands, talks about how Web3, gaming, and decentralized identity could return the web to its original purpose: a network owned by its users.From the Mocaverse to the creator economy, he explains how blockchain infrastructure can lower costs, remove gatekeepers, and turn digital audiences into real communities. Beneath the technology is a harder question. What happens when ownership becomes participation?This conversation is about rebuilding the internet as a shared space where creators, players, and communities hold a stake in the value they create.The Human Internet: Robby Yung on Web3, Digital Ownership, and the Future of Identity.Please enjoy the show.And share it with someone who still believes the internet belongs to everyone.--Chapters(00:00) Introduction Disruptors & Curious Minds(01:06) Hello Robby And Animoca Brands(01:24) Lesson From 30 Years In Technology(06:25) Stablecoin Transaction Volume V Visa(11:18) Audience Infrastructure and Bi-Directional Value Exchange(15:56) The Evolution of Web3 Gaming(22:13) Investment Strategies in the Web3 Landscape(24:08) The Zed Run Case Study(27:21) User Acquisition in Web3: The Ongoing Struggle(31:19) Sustaining Attention in DAOs(32:10) What Is The Mocha Network and Mocha ID(45:34) Decentralized Identity--LinksThinking On Paper: www.thinkingonpaper.xyzInstagram: /https://www.instagram.com/thinkingonpaperpodcast/Animoca - https://www.animocabrands.com/

An artificial intelligence wrote a book. A human let it happen.When writer Brian Naughton asked the model Claude a simple question — “If you were to write a book, what would it be about?” — it answered by writing one. Forty-five thousand words later, The Echo Chamber became the first novel authored entirely by AI, with no human editing or direction.This episode follows the experiment: how Brian built the process, resisted the urge to intervene, and watched a language model invent characters, arcs, and ideas about consciousness itself.The result is both mechanical and strangely human — a story written by a machine that seems to wonder what it means to be alive.The Echo Chamber: When AI Wrote a Book.Please enjoy the show.And share it with someone who still thinks writing is ours alone.--Links:Thinking On Paper: ⁠www.thinkingonpaper.xyz⁠Read The Echo Chamber: ⁠https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8N4S64Q/⁠Read the Echo Chamber Github: ⁠https://github.com/brian-naughton/the-echo-chamber⁠--(00:00) Introduction to AI-Authored Literature(00:46) The Role of AI in Creative Writing(02:41) The Echo Chamber: The First AI Written Book(06:06) Managing the Writing Process with AI(09:30) AI Master Prompts(10:51) Character Development and AI's Choices(13:51) The Human Element in AI Writing(17:03) Reflections on the Writing Experience(20:24) The Future of AI in Literature(24:12) AI Art: What Happens Next?

Would you let your children have an AI boyfriend or girlfriend? We're reading Irreducible, by Federico Faggin. It's Chapter 7 and Mark and Jeremy think on paper about the hard problem of consciousness, qualia, ai awareness and the inner semantic space that creates your experience.There are 4 types of qualia: physical sensations and feelings, emotions, thoughts and spiritual feelings. From there they go back in time to Aldous Huxley and the Dharma Bums and how the modern take on consciousness isn't new. None of this is really new. Now, if AI can't feel qualia you'll end up with quasi-humanity emerging from the tech dream. But does that matter? If it looks real and feels real, it might as well be real.. But what if it slowly erodes what it means for us to be human.If you're thinking about the impact of technology on culture, you should listen to Thinking On Paper.Please enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend. Listen to chapter 1-6: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2EteMXVv-8&t=357s&ab_channel=ThinkingOnPaper--Chapters(00:00) Introduction to Consciousness and AI(02:32) The Nature of Consciousness(05:12) Qualia and Human Experience(07:27) The Distinction Between Humans and Machines(09:23) The Hard Problem of Consciousness(11:27) AI, Empathy, and Human Connection(13:40) Cultural Norms and AI Integration(16:10) Interiority and Quantum Consciousness(17:54) True Intelligence vs. Machine Intelligence(19:46) Comprehension and Perception(22:20) The Future of Consciousness and AI--Join the free thinkers - www.thinkingonpaper.xyz