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From Mind to World: Rethinking the Role of Language
Ai and cognition, AI and our being, Evolution vs Revolution, Future, Future of Us, Human + Machine, Intelligence Interface, Series, Thought Exploration SeriesAs we move closer to decoding thought directly from the brain, it’s worth asking what language has really done for us — and what we might lose by leaving it behind. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 5 min readAugust 28, 2025 Language as the Original Interface For most of human history, language was the only…
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Powering the Prompt: The Energy Behind the Intelligence
We treat GenAI like magic. But intelligence — real or synthetic — needs power, cooling, and infrastructure. What happens when that becomes ambient? Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 6 min readAugust 21, 2025 We treat GenAI as frictionless — but every prompt draws on real infrastructure, with real cost.And while the environmental impact of AI…
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Generative AI and the SDGs: The Goals Were Built for One World. We’re Already Living in Another.
As generative AI moves from tool to infrastructure, the SDGs must adapt — or risk becoming well-intentioned relics. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 10 min readAugust 14, 2025 2015, the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals — 17 global priorities to guide humanity toward a more just, equitable, and sustainable future by 2030. It…
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Thinking in Superposition: What Quantum Computing Really Means
Quantum computing isn’t just faster. It’s a different way of thinking about logic, uncertainty, and what it means to compute. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 7 min readAugust 6, 2025 For decades, we’ve ridden the exponential wave of Moore’s Law — the idea that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years,…
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Why ChatGPT Won’t Get Us to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
Language got us far. But it won’t take us all the way to general intelligence. Found & Framed Series Rabih Ibrahim 6 min readJuly 30, 2025 We’ve grown used to how effortlessly machines can speak our language. From summarizing legal documents to answering philosophical riddles, language models now operate in a space that feels impressively…
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When AI Pretends to think: The Limits of Machine Reasoning
Ai and cognition, Evolution vs Revolution, Evolutionary Intelligence, Found & Framed Series, Future Of MachinesFrom red-glowing spider silk to programmable ecosystems, we are no longer evolving life — we’re beginning to design it. Found & Framed Series Rabih Ibrahim 7 min readJuly 16, 2025 There’s a certain comfort in watching a machine walk through its logic. When a language model explains its steps, corrects itself, or hesitates before answering,…
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Darwin to Design: Designing Life for Output, Not Survival
From red-glowing spider silk to programmable ecosystems, we are no longer evolving life — we’re beginning to design it. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 7 min readJuly 07, 2025 In a lab in China, scientists recently engineered a spider to spin red fluorescent silk. Not dyed. Not painted. The silk glows red because a coral gene…
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Could the Octopus Be Thinking in a Way Machines Never Will?
Its mind doesn’t mirror ours. It doesn’t need language, tools, or culture. But it may hold the key to But it may hold the key to a kind of intelligence AI has yet to approach. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 6 min readJune 24, 2025 Intelligence Didn’t Start With Us Most artificial intelligence today is modeled…
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When AI Grows Limbs: Physical AI and the Expanding Edges of Embodiment
The rise of physical intelligence — and the slow redefinition of what it means to have a body. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 6 min readJune 24, 2025 All media are extensions of some human faculty — psychic or physical.”— Marshall McLuhan, media theorist We’ve gotten used to thinking of AI as something disembodied. A…
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When Machines Become Mirrors: The Rise of AI as Emotional Companion
How the top uses of generative AI reveal not just new habits — but a shift in how we reflect, relate, and conform Found and Framed Series Rabih Ibrahim 6 min readJune 16, 2025 The Unexpected Intimacy of AI A few years ago, the dominant fear around AI was existential. Job loss. Misinformation. Displacement. The…
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When AI Is Alive: The Dawn of Biological Computing
We’ve trained machines to think like us. Now we’re building them out of us. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 7 min readJune 11, 2025 The mind is no longer bound by the skull. And intelligence? It’s evolving — again. Ina quiet lab in Melbourne, Australia, brain cells are learning. Not in a human body. Not…
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Built to Assist. Now It Thinks, Acts, and Decides.
Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s quote: “AI is no longer just a tool — it is an agent.”itations. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 5 min readJune 9, 2025 “For the first time in history, we have an entity that can make decisions and generate ideas — without human guidance.”— Yuval Noah Harari From Tools to Thinkers…
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Rethinking Robots: Why Humanoids Are a Waste of Innovation
Let’s stop chasing machines in our image — and start building machines that surpass our limitations. Opinionated but Open Series Rabih Ibrahim 9 min readJune 2, 2025 From Fantasy to Friction From sci-fi fantasies to tech expos, the vision of humanoid robots has captivated imaginations for decades. We picture them walking, talking, even empathizing —…
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The Future of Jobs Is Changing Faster Than You Think
Based on insights from the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025. Found & Framed Series Rabih Ibrahim 6 min readMay 28, 2025 Based on the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025 Welike to think change takes time. That we’ll see it coming and have the chance to adapt. But according to…
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From Searching to Asking: How AI is Reshaping the Way We Learn
This isn’t just the end of search — it’s a reprogramming of how we process knowledge. Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 7 min readMay 26, 2025 “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”— Stephen Hawking We used to search. We would launch Google, navigate through a dozen tabs, jump…
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AI Governance: Who’s Really in Control?
How corporate structures are falling short in the age of intelligent machines Book-Mined Series Rabih Ibrahim 5 min readMay 21, 2025 Artificial intelligence is accelerating — learning faster, scaling wider, reaching deeper into society than most technologies before it. And yet, it’s being governed not by public institutions or global treaties, but by a small…
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Are Humans the New Dinosaurs?
A Story of Power, Code, and the Creatures Who Created Their Replacement Thought Exploration Series Rabih Ibrahim 5 min readMay 15, 2025 “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”— Attributed to Charles Darwin The Meteor We See Coming Dinosaurs ruled the Earth…
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The Golden Record: Earth’s Billion-Year Hello to the Cosmos
A quiet gesture from Earth, drifting endlessly in the hope that someone, someday, might listen. Rabih Ibrahim 5 min readMay 14, 2025 Ona quiet morning in September 1977, a spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral. Its name was Voyager 1, and onboard it carried something extraordinary: a golden phonograph record etched with sounds, images, and…
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Borrowed Brains: Are We Outsourcing Our Thinking to Machines?
Thought Exploration Series Inspired by Yuval Noah Harari’s quote: “AI is no longer just a tool — it is an agent.” “The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.”— Neil Postman For much of human history, thinking was considered a solitary act. A quiet endeavor…
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