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 5/6/26 Greg Laugero 5/6/26

Artificial Instinct? Rethinking Intelligence Through Interruption

Is computation enough to explain intelligence? This essay argues that the difference between instinct and intelligence emerges in moments of interruption—when response becomes choice, and time opens to possibility.

Greg Laugero 4/29/26 Greg Laugero 4/29/26

Intelligence Against Instinct: Why Prediction Is Not Enough

Modern AI equates intelligence with prediction. But intelligence begins when instinct is interrupted—when necessity opens into possibility.

Greg Laugero 4/1/26 Greg Laugero 4/1/26

Intelligence and Instinct II: Contingency and Possibility

Between instinct and action, there is a moment—an interruption. This essay explores how intelligence emerges in that gap, not to return to purpose, but to reshape it, opening time to contingency and new possibilities.