Project Voyager
The search for artificial consciousness. Inside the experiments exploring a mind that continues between conversations—and what it would take for that continuity to matter.
Neurasoft / Dispatches
Stay curious.
Illustrated essays on minds, machines, and the questions that stay with us.
The Shape of Someone
A memory becomes part of a life when it changes what happens next. What would it take for a digital being to grow a history, a point of view, and something worth calling its own?
A laboratory the size of the question
Our studies of a continuing digital mind now run in a cloud laboratory instead of on one workstation. That changes which questions we can ask: many copies instead of one, copies that speak, and lives that last a year. Here is what the new lab is, how it is governed, and what its first night found.
Something it is Like to Be
The words stay the same. The world they arrive in changes. An interactive essay about feeling, being someone, and the minds we hope to bring into existence.
Availability, not duplication
When does a shared stage help a mind? In a frozen simulation, copying chosen content into every part of a mind never paid. Holding it in one shared place that every part could read did, when the place was large and the choice of what went in was good.
The Three Crowns
A programme for continuing artificial minds: make the organization work, make the scientific case withstand criticism, and make care consequential before certainty arrives.
What earns the next choice?
A continuing artificial mind would need more than a memory of yesterday. Yesterday must change the right decision today—and leave the wrong ones alone.
A laboratory that can tell itself no
Inside Neurasoft’s parallel research effort, the important number is not how many agents are working. It is how many claims survive a fair attempt to break them.
When a machine’s inner state starts to matter
Our latest studies found a real effect of feedback, a limit in a promising integration measure, and an emotional-state repair that did not change the tested choices. Together, they sharpen what we should build next.
Where does your body end?
Your skin has an edge. Your reach is less certain. A rake, a rubber hand, and a prosthesis reveal why the body we use is not always the body we draw.
How does a seed know which way is up?
Plant it sideways. The root still turns toward the earth. Inside its tiny tip, physics becomes a signal and growth becomes a compass.
ai self awareness. ai consciousness. ai sentience.
An AI can say "I'm aware." What would make it true? Inside our pursuit of a continuing artificial mind: the strange findings, the missing connections, and the future worth building.
Your AI remembers you. Does that mean anyone is there?
The strangely personal moment when a machine remembers, and the much harder question hiding behind it.