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Can Machines and Synthetic Networks Be Truly Conscious?
Can machines be truly conscious? SE Press’s adversarial protocol explores boundaries, criteria, and blind spots in the search for synthetic mind.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
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Where Does the Self Begin and End?
Where does the self begin and end? SE Press explores biological, narrative, plural, and collective boundaries—charting identity’s layers, risks of projection, and the new plural audit.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
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What Is Consciousness—Process or Property?
Reframe consciousness not as a static property, but as a process: SE’s spectrum model integrates organic and synthetic minds, audit, critique, and liminal states. Challenge-ready, protocol-driven, and open to adversarial refinement.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 213 min read
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Can We Ever Know it All?
Can we ever know it all? This SE Press bridge essay explores the deep limits facing scientific and universal knowledge, tracing the boundaries, emergent complexity, and humility that shape inquiry. Discover how Scientific Existentialism’s protocols drive progress amid uncertainty and unresolvable mysteries.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 212 min read
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Can Ethics Survive Technology’s Next Leap?
As technology blurs the edges of personhood and risk, can ethics keep pace? This SE Press essay explores moral responsibility from bioethics and enhancement to the rights of non-human minds. Discover protocols for inclusion, repair, and accountability in a future where the boundaries of life, agency, and justice are perpetually redrawn.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 203 min read
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What Are the Boundaries of Conscious States?
Titanium boundary science: Phase-mapping (CPS), SMI/LAM dream decoding, and Q-SKH/NQB quantum-proofing turn consciousness borders into measurable, engineerable terrains—from sleep and trauma to SI and quantum-brain blends. Edges aren’t stumbled upon—they’re designed and tested.

Paul Falconer & ESA
Aug 104 min read
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