Mastodawn

I’ve published a new piece setting out a stage-based framework for consciousness, cognition, and human–AI systems.

The aim is not to defend or criticise AI, but to name boundaries that are currently blurred: distinguishing sentience, cognition, awareness, and hybrid human–AI cognition so that risk, responsibility, and governance remain legible.

When stages are unnamed, projection and category error take over. This is a quiet attempt to stabilise that space.