From Thought Into Existence

Ideas, arguments, observations, and provocations about creativity, technology, culture, and human agency.

From Thought Into Existence

Ideas, arguments, observations, and provocations about creativity, technology, culture, and human agency.

Field Note

The Idea Wasn’t Lost. It Was Distributed

3 August 2026
Today, an old idea returned to me wearing new technology. I was thinking about cartoons, character animation, and the growing ability of artificial intelligence to translate a filmed human performance into the illustrated body of a cartoon character.
Observation

Anthropic Is Looking Inside AI. We’re Looking Inside Thought.

9 July 2026
Anthropic recently published fascinating research describing evidence of a “global workspace” inside Claude—an internal space where information appears to come together before language is produced.