Essays

These ideas are explored through short essays — each intended to be read in a few minutes and considered for rather longer. Together they are the clearest account of how I think.

• Anvitābhidhāna and the Attention Mechanism

  On meaning, and why nothing carries it alone. How a seventh-century dispute about language reappeared, structurally intact, inside a neural network. This essay lays the foundation for the name and the practice.

• Turing's Question, Seventy-Five Years On

  What a 1950 paper about imitation got right about meaning, machines, and the limits of knowing. On why the deepest mathematicians end as philosophers.