Yesterday I put together a 40-minute video in which I talk about Karl Friston’s “Free Energy Principle,” a theory developed in the 1990s that centers the unique narrative world models we hold internally and how those models in consciousness are shaped by sensory input, the incoming information hurtling towards us through the feed every day. […]

I write this post on the first anniversary of the death of my dear father Jerry Lee Hawver who grew up in an unstable, alcoholic household and through hard work and great people skills became a star athlete and executive with Proctor and Gamble. He and my mother raised my brother and me in the […]

Dear readers, For those who are still following along, you’ve probably noticed it’s been quiet on the blog this summer. I did a short update on my channel a few weeks ago letting folks know I found a cozy home, a 1970s two-bedroom brick rancher on about a quarter acre on the outskirts of Hot […]

That little voice whispered it was time to get out of the apartment and clear my head. I’d been working on additions to a map for several days, and it was going slower than I wanted it to go. My mother, in her 80s, moved into assisted living last month. As is to be expected, […]

This three-hour chat with my friend Lynn Davenport of Dallas, Texas was initially triggered by my frustration with a recent RFK Jr. video promoting blockchain as the future.   While I wanted to deconstruct the silly nationalist tone of his video, promoters of decentralized ledger tech know that the whole point is peer-to-peer communication and […]

This week Stephers came across a document that was put out by the Consciousness and Healing Initiative in 2020 with financial support from Jason Youtopolous (former head of SAP Global Research) with the Emerald Gate Foundation, the Walker Family Foundation (Jeffrey C. Walker formerly of JP Morgan, MIT Media Lab, Berklee School of Music and […]

Can you summarize your recent research into a single sentence? That was the emailed request. “Tagged archetypal cybernetic avatars team up to forage for contextualized information (qualia) in interdimensional “space” and bring it back to be collectively processed (composted?) in a globally-networked “gut brain.” This novel “brain,” managed through precision nutrition, uses quorum sensing and […]

I took a walk through the thick southern heat down to the Mount Holly Cemetery today to crack a new book. I enjoyed the shade of the magnolia next to a Victorian fountain. I gathered loose bits along the paths and made a heart as a tribute to my dad. It’s my first Father’s Day […]

It turns out this is one of those blog posts that ended up being more working notes for myself than a coherent narrative for others. So be it. I needed to write down these random, but somewhat related musings and observations for future reference. At some point maybe I’ll be able to synthesize all the […]

Is this an age where life on Earth is further knit together by an emerging “technology,” that looks more squishy and organic than sharp and metallic? Fewer screens and more precision probiotics? Less 5g and more tuned light? Mechanical data centers swapped for bioengineered creatures and microbial colonies? A world where computation is managed in […]