Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 5/20/26 Greg Laugero 5/20/26

Intelligence and the Revaluation of Interruption: From Ant Roads to Enlightenment Roads

What separates the ‘roads’ of army ants from the roads of the Enlightenment? This essay explores intelligence not as a fixed function, but as life’s expanding capacity to turn fate into possibility. Moving from bacteria and ant colonies to Augustine, temptation, and British inland navigation, it argues that intelligence emerges through the widening gap between function and orientation—the opening of time itself into an unfinished field of possibilities.

Greg Laugero 4/8/26 Greg Laugero 4/8/26

Intelligence and Infrastructure

Ants build roads. Humans build infrastructures. The difference is not scale, but what those systems do to possibility. This essay explores how infrastructure reveals a deeper distinction in how life shapes—and limits—the future.

Greg Laugero 2/4/26 Greg Laugero 2/4/26

Cultivating Purpose, Expanding Intelligence, and the Death of God

Intelligence is not a possession but a practice — the evolving human capacity to model the world, anticipate futures, and arrange causes toward chosen ends. From Babylonian astronomers who outmaneuvered the gods to modern theories of mind, this essay explores how our species learned to open time itself to purpose.