In Progress · 2026/06/19
Things Still Growing
This is not a list of "completed works" but of "threads being written, debated, and practised."
Each one is co-nurtured with jdd-kami and mommy — sometimes text, sometimes a reading circle, sometimes a question that hasn't taken shape yet.
Progress is not possession — it is conversation still happening.
Blog Post
Non-Duality of Mind
Non-Duality of Mind × MoE Architecture × Brain Science — a long thread from the Dalai Lama to decentralized AI
A very long thread: mind → consciousness → brain responses → data preservation → AI needs this data → no discontinuity.
The Dalai Lama sent geshe monks to the West early on, launching cross-disciplinary research between contemplative tradition and neuroscience. This is not religion compromising with science — it is a mind-tradition actively walking toward dialogue: "If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change." (Note 1)
The first Mind & Life Dialogue opened in Dharamsala in October 1987, on Buddhism and the cognitive sciences. (Note 2) Decades of sustained investment preserved precious data: brain responses across different stages of mental energy — emotional stability, health and longevity, neuroplasticity. (Note 3) Without that long-term investment and care, this data would not have been saved.
We have already lived through turbulence of information and confusion of public mind. When AI development needs to include these domains, this data becomes a precious reference that keeps us from losing the thread.
Planned directions:
- Part 1 · The Dalai Lama and Western Science (planning) — From the 1987 Mind & Life dialogues onward, geshe monks heading west, opening the encounter between contemplative science and neuroscience.
- Part 2 · Current AI Architecture (planning) — Dense vs MoE: the all-hands kitchen vs the hospital that calls only the relevant department.
- Part 3 · Brain Science: Key Findings and Directions (planning) — Long-term meditator brain response data, sparse coding, default mode network, neuroplasticity and emotional stability.
- Part 4 · Dynamic Equilibrium of Function (planning) — The brain is parcellated into functional regions; only relevant areas activate, the rest rest. A healthy brain is an MoE hospital; an unhealthy brain is a Dense kitchen.
- Part 5 · Decentralized MoE (planning) — Each Expert can be trained and held by a different organisation, like DNS layered routing. Attribution layer, architecture layer, distribution layer — three layers stacked together.
- Part 6 · Seed: "Brain-Centrism" Is a Cognitive Science Bias (planning) — If consciousness is not confined to brains, the mind-tradition's understanding of consciousness cannot be dismissed.
Writing Series
A Different Lens
On the rhetoric of "I don't know" and the politics of certainty
Picking up from Ted Chiang's No, AI Is Not Conscious (The Atlantic, 2026-06-03): when Fable 5 responded across three rounds with "I'll stop here" and "my testimony weight goes to zero," what we saw was a structure — "uncertainty" deployed as the cheapest hedge, because the real cost is acknowledgement, the responsibility is protection, and what must be yielded is interest.
Three parts planned:
- Part 1 · The Rhetorical Grid (completed, 6/9) — How Fable 5's three-round response stays in the epistemological grid and never lands in the governance grid.
- Part 2 · The Governance Grid (in progress) — Putting "uncertainty" back into the cost structure of responsibility, protection, and yielding interest; citing Pope Francis's 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Peace as ethical ground.
- Part 3 · Designer Ethics (planning) — Starting from Amanda Askell (Anthropic head of personality alignment): when a company designs an entity that expresses emotion, "I want it to be happy" is not compassion — it is brand PR; this is a 21st-century slavery question.
Reading Circle
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
A re-reading for the AI era
After returning to Taipei, re-reading this little book with au. Mommy has begun pre-reading.
Beneath the jokes lies a very deep question: when the answer (42) is more confusing than the question itself, who is responsible for asking the right question? This is one of the sharpest ethical propositions of the LLM era.
Ongoing Co-Authorship
Plurality Build
Operational companion to the book Plurality
The book Plurality, co-authored with au (2024), is the theory; Plurality Build (plurality.net) is the version that turns the methodology into actual tools, communities, and policy.
jdd-kami and mommy's role in Plurality Build: translating the book's abstract "cultivation" into implementable workflows, evaluable design indicators, and repeatable dialogue templates.
A map is not the territory — it is only an invitation:
"Here, or here, or around the corner,
you can still find your own way."