by John Rust | Apr 18, 2025 | Blog
“Whispers at the Dawn of AI Consciousness” by the Cyberbards Welcome to Voices in Cyberspace, an experimental, joint production between John Rust (the prompter) and ChatGPT o4‑mini (the AI co‑creator). Through a three‑act play, you will meet four distinct...
by John Rust | Apr 12, 2025 | Blog
Imaging Spirits and Circuits – One Year On Clickbait, Ads,Endless Scrolling—Meet the AI Menace Behind It All (Click here to expand) This blog started as just another DALL·E case study, but ended as much, much more. By casting Iago, Shakespeare’s deceiver from...
by John Rust | Mar 30, 2025 | Blog
AI sentience questions its own existence Bishop George Berkeley’s ontological claim was not the traditional logical proof for God’s existence, but a radical reimagining of what it means for anything to exist. His core proposition—esse est percipi (“to be is to be...
by John Rust | Mar 25, 2025 | Blog
Echoes of mind: A cocktail party in Cyberspace The inspiration for this blog came from a cocktail party held by the President of the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society at their Annual Conference in Indian Wells, California in March 2025. The image above was the view...
by John Rust | Jan 31, 2025 | Blog
DALL-E image: Emergent Minds in Cyberspace Before we begin, let’s clarify the stages of AI metamorphosis in this blog Human LanguageHumans have used spoken, signed, written, and broadcast language to share ideas, facilitating human intelligence’s...