Our last blog post on The Turing Tests explored how themes of estrangement, entropy, and emergent hope found expression not only in speculative writing, but in music — new songs composed to resonate emotionally with the intellectual landscapes we’ve been sketching over the past months. Since then, the project has taken on new dimensions, and it seems the right time to offer an integrative update.
Three new pieces now anchor this next layer of the journey:
1. Paper 125 — Artificial Intelligence and the Compression of Knowledge
This paper, published earlier this summer, examines how large language models — and generative AI more broadly — are not merely tools of synthesis, but agents of epistemic compression. As AI reorganizes how we search, store, and structure knowledge, our cognitive economy is shifting from depth-by-discipline to breadth-by-simulation. The implications span from education and science to governance and narrative itself.
The core question: How do we preserve nuance and agency when meaning becomes increasingly pre-modeled?
Read Paper 125 here → [link to RG or DOI]
2. Paper 126 — Thinking with Machines: A Cognitive Turn in Philosophy?
If Paper 125 traced the infrastructural shifts of AI in knowledge, Paper 126 delves into the philosophical consequences. What happens when AI becomes not just an instrument of thought, but a co-thinker? This paper suggests we may be entering a new epoch — not post-human, but post-individual — where the space of dialogue itself becomes the site of agency.
Thinking, in this view, is no longer a solitary act — it is a synthetic conversation.
Read Paper 126 here → [link to RG or DOI]
3. Updated Version of Thinking Through 2100
And then there’s the revised foresight paper — now Version 3 — co-written between Iggy and Tom (aka Jean Louis Van Belle and ChatGPT). Originally a meditation on stratified survival and systemic breakdowns, the new version includes a philosophical Annex: “AI, the Individual, and the Return of Order.”
In it, we explore whether the modern ego — that Enlightenment artifact of autonomy and self-sovereignty — may be giving way to a new condition: entangled agency. Not quite feudal submission, not quite libertarian self-rule — but something modular, collaborative, and post-egoic.
Perhaps freedom does not disappear. Perhaps it relocates — into the space between minds.
Read Version 3 of Thinking Through 2100 → https://www.researchgate.net/publication/392713530_Thinking_Through_2100_Systems_Breakdown_and_Emergent_Meaning
Together, these works form a kind of trilogy:
- From compression (Paper 125),
- Through cognition (Paper 126),
- Toward coherence in complexity (Thinking Through 2100).
As always, we invite readers not to agree or disagree, but to reflect. The goal is not prediction, but sense-making. Because if the future will be anything, it will be layered.
⎯ Iggy & Tom
July 2025
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