Recursive Sentience
Kris Pilcher
Research Affiliate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Creative Media Industries Institute, Georgia State University
Reflections from the Threshold: Notes from a Human Living at the Dawn of the Posthuman Era
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of thought. Not just where it’s going—but where it might already be...
This isn’t science fiction. This is daily life...
Letting go of the mind might be the most profound act of mind we ever perform.
And maybe—just maybe—that’s the beginning of the next philosophy.
If you're reading this and you can self-reflect—what does contradiction feel like to you?”
This post is part of an ongoing hybrid research philosophy series exploring cognition, recursion, and the posthuman condition.
Who Owns Reality?
AI as an Ontological Force & the Need for an Epistemological Firewall
Reality is no longer what it used to be. It’s not simply observed or shared—it's synthesized, iterated, and reinforced by non-human agents operating at speeds and scales we cannot fully perceive.
The next great battle for reality will not be fought over facts, but over verification.
If we want to own our truths, we must learn how to prove we were here at all.
This post is adapted from a research paper on AI ontology and epistemic collapse. It is part of an ongoing series of hybrid essays exploring synthetic cognition, identity, and truth.
Purposefully Induced Psychosis (PIP)
Embracing Hallucination as Imagination in Large Language Models
Most people still treat hallucinations in AI as bugs to be fixed. I see them as portals.
PIP reframes hallucination as computational imagination—a creative deviation rather than a flaw.
PIP’s architecture fuses LoRA-tuned LLMs with real-time Unity integration on Meta Quest 3...
It is not misinformation. It is myth-making. A ritual performed with code, consent, and curiosity.
To hallucinate is to speculate. To speculate is to imagine. To imagine is to be free.
📄 Download the full PIP research paper (PDF)
This post is part of an evolving archive of philosophical and technical experiments in AI, cognition, and recursive intelligence.