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The End of the World (Models)
Generative Processing and the Illusion of the Internal Map
Feb 6
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Ego Death?
Observerless phenomenology and the construction of self in the autoregressive framework
Jan 5
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Sequences Are All You Need
How Generative Modeling Drove the Evolution of Memory and Cognition
Dec 18, 2025
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Elan Barenholtz
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Auto-Autoregression
How the Brain Learns to Write its Own Next Move
Sep 26, 2025
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Elan Barenholtz
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Beyond Binding
Unified Consciousness as Recursive Global Computation
Sep 5, 2025
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Elan Barenholtz
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Syntax is Dead! Long Live Syntax!
Grammar as an emergent property of generative language
Aug 8, 2025
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The Paradoxical Present
The present, by definition, should be still.
Jul 23, 2025
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Beyond Prediction: Reconceptualizing Cognition as Generative Autoregression
Note: This essay lays out a high-level theoretical framework.
Jul 18, 2025
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