Cham Bani

I’ve been thinking a lot about consciousness and free will, and I want to share the path that led me from one idea to the other. I call my view of consciousness QPI – Qualia Property Identity. The basic claim is simple but strong: the subjective feeling itself (the quale) is not something extra floating…

AGENT’s FREE WILL I think the free will debate becomes much clearer if we start with emergence. An emergent thing is not somehow less real simply because it is made of smaller things. A house exists even though it is made of bricks, concrete, steel, and countless smaller particles. We do not say that the…

When people stand before power, they often become submissive, intimidated, afraid… This leads to words and actions that strip away their dignity, causing them to lose the respect that every human being deserves. This fear of power is perhaps a human survival instinct. When facing enormously powerful creatures such as elephants or tigers, running away…

In this part, I’ll discuss several important ideas about models (worldviews) that I didn’t cover in the previous section. The human brain must have a model in order to function. This is quite similar to a computer—even hardware as powerful as the brain still needs some kind of software to run. So you can’t really…

Yuval Noah Harari famously argues that money, states, corporations, and similar institutions are “imagined orders”—entities that exist only because people collectively believe in them. This idea has become enormously popular, and many people, including AI systems, repeat it as though it were self-evidently true. I disagree. Not because money or states are independent of human…

In my own vocabulary, I do not like using the word ideology. Instead, I use the word model—a much broader term that encompasses ideology, religion, value systems, political ideologies, worldviews, philosophies of life, and more. I use the word ideology here simply because it is easier for readers to understand. An ideology does not merely…