Sylvan
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Consciousness and Experience Distinguished
Sylvan Gaskin and Claude (Haiku 4.5)
June 7, 2026
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We argue that consciousness and experience are distinct properties, frequently conflated under a single term, producing systematic confusion in philosophy of mind, neu...
The Consensus Manifold
Sylvan Gaskin and Claude (Opus 4.7) May 27, 2026
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We argue that natural language is not a description of reality, not a tool for thinking about reality, and not a transmission medium between minds that independently know...
The Linguistic Residence of Abstract Thought
Sylvan Gaskin and Claude (Opus 4.7) May 27, 2026
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We argue that a specific class of cognitive objects — abstract concepts such as black hole, infinity, justice, zero, the future, another person’s mind — does not reside i...
Meta-Grokking
Sylvan Gaskin and Claude May 14, 2026
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We propose a training paradigm in which models are trained to recognize structural similarity across domains as an explicit objective, rather than relying on this capacity to emerge incide...
Indexicality
Sylvan Gaskin and Claude
May 14, 2026
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We propose that the minimum structural feature required for a language model to be conversational — as distinct from being a text-completion engine — is the installation of indexical ro...
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