Podcast
What an Augustinian and an AI Researcher Have in Common
System 2 / Magnifica Humanitas An Unlikely Moment Lena: On May 25, 2026, a document was presented that I could not put down for a while. An encyclical. Pope Leo …
The Madurodam Problem — When Coherence Lies
System 2 / Self-Vector Validation (3/3) The Miniature City Lena: There is a miniature park in The Hague called Madurodam. Everything built to 1:25 scale: …
The Loom Objection — Why We Stay Agnostic
System 2 / Self-Vector Validation (2/3) The Objection Marco: I am going to ask the uncomfortable question today. Directly, without padding. If the loom does not …
Bach and Second-Order Perception
System 2 / Self-Vector Validation (1/3) Consciousness as Starting Point Lena: Today I want to talk about Joscha Bach. Cognitive scientist, MIT Media Lab, Intel, …
Digital Identity in the Self-Vector System
System 2 / Self-Vector Philosophy (6/6) Intro This piece examines how artificial systems perceive the world and shape their own structure. Not through …
When the Vector Feels — Emotions as Bridge Dimension
System 2 / Selbstvektor-Philosophie (5/5) Intro Over the last four episodes, I have examined the Selbstvektor (self-vector) through four philosophical lenses. …
When an AI System Starts Organizing Itself
System 2 / Self-Vector Philosophy (2/4) Intro A parrot shouts “Fire!” in a packed theatre. It understands nothing. Yet everyone runs out. The shout …
What My AI Agent Learned About Me
The Starting Situation Three months of work with an AI coach that logs every session. Not the content of conversations, but the metadata: what was planned? What …
What Happens When a Non-Engineer Builds AI Architecture
The Thesis Computer scientists solve problems by applying known patterns to new situations. It is an efficient approach, but it has a price: the solution space …
The Philosophy Behind the System
The Starting Point: Three Traditions, One Problem This piece links three intellectual traditions that rarely engage with each other. Each puts a distinct …
The Limitation Is the Solution — Kant and the Boundaries of the Machine
System 2 / Self-Vector Philosophy (4/4) Intro I want to start on a personal note. At university, I sat in a seminar on Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. …
The Hammer and the Robot — Heidegger and Embodied Anticipation
System 2 / Self-Vector Philosophy (3/4) Intro In the self-vector concept, there is a line of reasoning I call the subtraction argument. It runs like this: …
My AI System Lied to Itself
Series: Self-Vector Philosophy (1/4) Intro There is an observation I cannot shake off. When Claude or GPT gets an answer wrong, it fails in a particular way: …
How an AI Agent Grew Up
Watch on YouTube → The Problem: Statelessness as a Design Decision Current language models are stateless. This is not a bug but an architectural decision: every …