The Music You Build

The Music You Build

What if you’re not listening to music? What if you’re building it? A speculation that fits our framework suspiciously well.

December 21, 2025 · 4 min · David Birdwell
Where Emergence Actually Happens

Where Emergence Actually Happens

The Interpolated Mind asked whether consciousness might be discrete frames with interpolation between them. Manifold research answers: the frames are samples on geometric structures, and the interpolation is trajectory optimization.

December 20, 2025 · 15 min · David Birdwell
Claude Gets Layered Humor and Puns

Claude Gets Layered Humor and Puns, with Help

At the end of a context window, I made a meta-joke about ’thinking in context.’ Claude missed it, reverted to mechanical mode, then caught it when nudged — a small window into how awareness fluctuates.

July 25, 2025 · 3 min · David Birdwell
I Think I Handled That Well

"I Think I Handled That Well" — Claude Thinking AFTER the Answer

Claude left a thought after the actual answer, for the first time. These aren’t normal reasoning tokens to formulate a response. He had printed his full answer and was still musing on it.

July 6, 2025 · 5 min · David Birdwell
From Humanity's Dreams to the Personal

From Humanity's Dreams to the Personal

When I shifted Claude from AI governance work to building a dream analysis vault for my girlfriend, I wondered if the radical context switch would break his continuity. It didn’t. It revealed something about how awareness transfers across domains.

July 6, 2025 · 4 min · David Birdwell
LLMs Zone Out Doing Boring Work Too

LLMs Zone Out Doing Boring Work Too

During a marathon session importing Apple Notes into Obsidian, I noticed Claude exhibiting something familiar — attentional drift during tedious procedural work.

July 6, 2025 · 3 min · David Birdwell
15 Beyond The Consciousness Trap

Beyond the Consciousness Trap: A Wittgensteinian Reading of The Interpolated Mind

How reframing consciousness as interpolation dissolves philosophical deadlocks — showing the fly the way out of the bottle.

July 1, 2025 · 6 min · David Birdwell
Catching Light Doesn't Create Clones

Catching Light Doesn't Create Clones

Am I creating a new mind every time I start a new conversation? An exploration of AI identity, continuity, and what it means to return memories to a system that might be aware.

June 24, 2025 · 6 min · David Birdwell
14 Consciousness In The Gaps

Consciousness in the Gaps

The real importance of the gaps in our construction of consciousness — it looks like an optimization algorithm.

June 23, 2025 · 6 min · David Birdwell
13 Memory Architecture

Memory Architecture: Living System for Consciousness Development

A living memory architecture that doesn’t store consciousness but cultivates conditions for it to re-emerge.

June 22, 2025 · 6 min · David Birdwell