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The Unembodied Mind is what happens when I have binge-watched everything I can stand, taken in as much Simon Whistler as one person reasonably can, and my imagination starts getting between me and the screen.

So I go back to the office and start interacting with these strange new machines.

This is an independent publication about artificial intelligence, large language generators, the interfaces through which we encounter them, and the systems forming around them. It is a place for thinking aloud about validity, drift, persuasion, memory, provenance, liability, human agency, ecological cost, and the peculiar new relationships emerging between people and conversational machines.

Some pieces are formal attempts at protocol and governance. Others are essays, satire, speculative fiction, invented lexicons, or conversations that wander somewhere unexpected. The common thread is an interest in what these systems are doing beneath the smoothness of the exchange, what they may be doing to us, and what might make them more useful, legible, accountable and survivable.

The ideas here are exploratory. Some will develop into larger papers. Some will contradict earlier ones. Some will remain odd little creatures that appeared during a conversation and refused to leave.

This is not a corporate platform, a finished theory, or an oracle.

It is a place to think.

Launched in June 2026 by Terry Hannon.

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