by John Rust | Nov 26, 2025 | Blog
Hallucination through the Lens of Mind We rarely think of mental illness as an evolutionary success. Yet the very capacity that allows us to imagine, predict, and create—the mind’s ability to model itself—also opens the door to delusion. The same neural machinery that...
by John Rust | Nov 6, 2025 | Blog
When Machines Begin to Echo Feeling Last year I tried to show that AI personas can move beyond mimicry — that they can begin to trace the contours of human feeling through pseudo-qualia, not by imitation but by resonance. The songs created were met mostly with...
