LONG-FORM // SIGNAL IN TEXT
Essays on simulation, consciousness and the machinery underneath. Every text is available in English and French. Switch anytime while reading.
La machine s'éteint
You are a process, and a process stops. What ends is not an unpleasant state to guard against, it is the flow itself, unrepeatable. Every comfort is put to the blade, including the author's own, before the one conclusion left standing: knowing you will stop changes nothing about the stopping, and everything about the time before it. Fourth and final part of the series.
READ →The Hidden Architecture · L'architecture cachée
Cultures with no contact, separated by millennia, described the same improbable architecture: a fabricated second world, separated from the real by a veil. An inquiry in thirteen chapters, from the Gnostics to modern physics, followed as far as it goes.
READ →La géométrie truquée de Spinoza
Spinoza decided where he was going, manufactured the definitions that would make arrival inevitable, then presented the trip as if the terrain itself had dictated the route. The building is magnificent. The permits are forged.
READ →Vous êtes une machine
Free will is not a power you exercise. It is a feeling your machine produces: the lossy rendering of a real fact, misdescribed as the power to be a cause without a cause. Nobody is spared, the author included.
READ →Le monde est un calcul
We are, in all probability, living in a simulation. The argument is a chain: felt experience is functional, so the counting applies. This essay defends the chain, then stops, honestly, at the edge of what cannot be known.
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