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Consciousness is a consensus mechanism

Consciousness is also mansplainer’s catnip. So I am surprised that the phrase — consciousness is a consensus mechanism — does not appear…

4 min read3 days ago

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Consciousness is a consensus mechanism

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One AI Tutor Per Child: Personalized learning is finally here

Update (April 8, 2024): See what an AI-powered school looks like.

7 min readMar 16, 2023

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Understanding consciousness is more pressing than ever at the dawn of this AI age

I co-authored a book that claims consciousness has been “solved”. One of the greatest neuroscientists of our generation who is largely…

12 min readSep 12, 2022

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The greatest neuroscientist you’ve never heard of

(This is a review of Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind)

9 min readJul 26, 2021

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How should we enable playful learning?

There’s an old wooden computer desk on our terrace at Comini. We had square holes cut out to put in two Ikea trays — I forget why. Those…

6 min readFeb 21, 2024

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How should we enable playful learning?

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Map Memorizers or Explorers: Hiring Well Needs Systems Thinking

I sent out this email nearly 15 years ago. This was after a rather disastrous 5 minute interview call where I quickly realized how out of…

6 min readDec 14, 2023

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Map Memorizers or Explorers: Hiring Well Needs Systems Thinking

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What playful learning looks like

(We put together this article as a guide for ourselves, and our parents and facilitators at our microschool.)

9 min readSep 14, 2023

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What playful learning looks like

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Why learn when ChatGPT has all the answers?

Our washing machine started leaking the other day. We’d find puddles pooling near its legs at the end of a wash cycle. We couldn’t tell…

6 min readJul 7, 2023

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Consciousness is simple. Simple is hard. AI can have it

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are…

9 min readJun 2, 2023

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Consciousness is simple. Simple is hard. AI can have it

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Revisiting Education: From Map Memorizers to Explorers

(Note: I used ChatGPT to write this essay. Most of the ideas and key phraes were mine. More on how and why after the essay.)

2 min readJan 30, 2023

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Sai Gaddam

Sai Gaddam

Co-Founder @ Comini Learning ; Co-Author: Journey of the Mind (2022); A Billion Wicked Thoughts (2011); PhD, Computational Neuroscience

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