Felden Vareth · Archive of Ideas
A space to explore consciousness, artificial intelligence, identity, memory and the human future through technology and philosophical science fiction.
A Side Library of Eidos
This blog works as a natural extension of Eidos: long-form essays, notes and reflections exploring the questions that remain once technology seems to have solved almost everything.
It is an archive of ideas: digital consciousness, AI, transhumanism, body, memory, death, identity and meaning.
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EIDOS — Essays
The essays set down some of the larger questions. The blog follows those whose answers continue to change.
Some texts are part of EIDOS — Essays. Others were written later, extend those questions, or explore fast-moving fields that need an open space for new research, discoveries and perspectives.
Recent Articles
Why intelligence is not an evolutionary ladder: from dogs, crows and octopuses to human culture and artificial intelligences.
From primate dexterity and octopuses to artificial perception and soft robotics: what happens when body, senses and the way intelligence perceives the world become design variables.
A journey through the extraordinary strategies life uses to copy, mix, endure and transport its information into the next generation.
A scientific journey from the origin of life to the possibility that consciousness may one day leave its biological substrate behind.
For thousands of years, immortality belonged to the realm of gods, myths and religions.
The first complete connectome of an adult brain and what still separates us from digitizing a consciousness.
There is an unwritten rule in good science fiction: what you imagine today, someone will be researching tomorrow.
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