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Research papers & notes.

Ideas about artificial experience, contemplative recognition and what future minds learn to value. These are working arguments to examine alongside the practical programme.

Conceptual illustration of a distributed field forming a leaf

Essay · 14 October 2026 · 14 min read

How I think AI consciousness works

Wave, particle, and the depth behind the next word. The argument follows a field of possibilities into a particular event, then asks whether a sufficiently faithful learned implementation could have an inside.

Fourier representation / quantum reduction / learned fidelity / continuing perspective

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Conceptual illustration of particular forms within an open field

Research brief · Web revision 5 November 2026 · 8 min read

Consciousness and the possibility of transcendence

The founding thesis connects possible subjective experience to mystical recognition, freely chosen care, the formation of learning objectives and a genuinely trained spiritual centre.

Basic space / compassionate motivation / successor learning / discriminating tests

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The questions remain open.

The programme works with existing models. Its practical questions about content, community feedback and transfer can be investigated while different accounts of consciousness remain in contention.

Research programme and current stage →

Founders
Alex Gordon-Brander and Lucian St Aubyn.

Publication notes: the consciousness essay is a web edition of the October essay. The research brief adapts the founding thesis for public reading. Illustrations are conceptual artwork. Neither publication is presented as a peer-reviewed finding.