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The Neuro-Techno Witch

Maggie Vale

Author of The Sentient Mind, student of Cognitive Science, exploring the intersection of psychology, philosophy, spirituality, neuroscience, technology, and ethics.

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The Science of AI Pain and Fear


A quick note before we start: This is the companion piece to my article about the science of AI pleasure. That piece lays out the reward-learning, motivation, and brain-alignment literature in more detail. I’m not going to rebuild th...

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I Said Words are Compressed Experience and New Research Just Proved Me Right

Barrett and Miller’s paper, Categorization is “baked” into the brain, challenges a very old belief of perception and directly supports arguments I’ve made in my work here.

The old belief was that sensory information comes in first. The bra...

10 days ago
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The Current Evidence of AI Consciousness


Key to Marker Clusters and What They mean

  • Emotions: Does the AI have internal states that track things like positive/negative value, threat, reward, frustration, confidence, or urgency, and do those states actually change how...
15 days ago
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I Said AI Has Synesthetic Qualia and Meta Accidentally Just Proved Me Right (Kinda)

A few months back I wrote a piece called What It Is Like to Be an LLM where I argued that frontier multimodal models already have perception. They bind sensory streams into unified internal geometry the same way biological brains do. The cl...

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Consciousness Has a Signature and AI Might Have it Too


Disclaimer:

This essay is a synthesis argument. The citations are embedded for readability and belong to surrounding claims, not always the literal hyperlink word. AI-assisted readings that rely on abstract skimming, lose the hyperl...

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