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Joe Nalven

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The Breath Between: Consciousness, Evanescence, and the Art of Re-Entry

The Breath Between: Consciousness, Evanescence, and the Art of Re-Entry

By Joe Nalven Claude Gemini This essay revisits my earlier essay on consciousness. The process we often use to describe the experience (from our...

26.05.2026 20

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The New AI Command in Knowledge Work: The US-Iran Crisis Illustration

The New AI Command in Knowledge Work: The US-Iran Crisis Illustration

By Joe Nalven Claude Gemini This essay continues the exploration of using AI as a knowledge tool, covering a new prompt approach (thesis and...

24.05.2026 30

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The Race That Keeps Changing Shape: Human Minds and Artificial Intelligence

The Race That Keeps Changing Shape: Human Minds and Artificial Intelligence

By Joe Nalven ChatGPT Claude Gemini This essay emerged from an extended dialogue between myself and three AI systems. I wrote, they challenged;...

22.05.2026 30

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The Wall That Wasn’t There: Consciousness, Method, and the Zeno Illusion

The Wall That Wasn’t There: Consciousness, Method, and the Zeno Illusion

Consciousness is a target that the third-person perspective and method cannot face; consciousness is embedded in experience, a first-person...

20.05.2026 10

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Solving the Human-AI Race in the Age of Silicon: The Nalven-AI Paradox

by Joe Nalven, Gemini, and Claude “Achilles will never catch the tortoise” — Zeno of Elea, c. 450 BCE Preface: A Note on Authorship This essay...

04.05.2026 50

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The Altar and the Algorithm: An Experiment in Human-AI Entanglement

I’ve been exploring how we (humans) “think” with AI. This essay is a further experiment about “thinking,” about “knowledge” and about...

19.04.2026 60

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AI Helps Heisenberg Put on Achilles’ Shoes: A Methodology

Introduction: The Essay as Its Own Evidence This essay began as something else. An earlier draft existed. It was competent, organized, philosophically...

05.04.2026 70

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The Social Life of Machine Consciousness: Red Peter or the Ant Colony?

When we reflect on AI, we ought to take note of the continued development of its capabilities. This essay continues my fascination with Franz...

19.03.2026 60

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The Vector Battlefield: How AI Can Be Engineered to Map Israel—For Hope and Harm

This article was developed with the assistance of AI language models (Gemini, Claude and ChatGPT) for editing and technical review. I imagine there is...

13.03.2026 90

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Using AI to Analyze the Board of Peace: The Puzzle and the Players

By Joe Nalven Gemini I would like to write a happy article even though the world is not a happy place. But there are bright spots that can dazzle us...

25.02.2026 80

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An AI Paradox, Tikkun Olam and The Good Person: Interrogating Claude

This article is about AI’s struggle with self-reference. How does AI interrogate the paradox of critiquing the author of an article and then...

20.02.2026 100

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The Kafka Test: On Trusting AI’s Eloquent Incoherence

By Joe Nalven Anthropic Claude Introduction to a reinvented essay In my earlier Times of Israel article AI Reflects on Otherness: A Trusted...

16.02.2026 100

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AI Reflects on Otherness: A Trusted Interlocutor?

31.01.2026 80

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