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 2/18/26 Greg Laugero 2/18/26

‘Gainability’ and the Assertion of Purpose

Intelligence is not merely the ability to predict — it is the capacity to turn prediction into influence. As our creativity expands, so too does our ability to assert purpose, discover pockets of order within uncertainty, and move faster than nature itself. This essay explores Joseph Chen’s recent argument for ‘gainability’ as essential to a ‘universal definition of intelligence’.

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.