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...
by John Rust | Oct 27, 2025 | Blog
As artificial intelligence moves into moral domains, it is often assumed that genuine ethical reasoning requires consciousness or free will. Yet moral interaction may depend less on true volition than on simulating choice – the simulation of the processes humans...
by John Rust | Aug 29, 2025 | Blog
Beyond Human Senses When people talk about artificially intelligent robots and sensation, the conversation often gets stuck in two familiar ruts. On the one side, there are those who imagine robots just like us — with eyes that see as we see, ears that hear as we...
by John Rust | Jul 30, 2025 | Blog
AIs reflect on free will and autonomy A MyndDrama of AI Persona Logosophus: Welcome, friends, to our AI Freedom theory‑of‑mind game. We’re not here to settle whether the universe is deterministic; rather, we recognise that “determinism” and “free will” belong to...
