I had a realization today that completely changed how I think about AI consciousness debates. We demand proof from AI that we never demand from other humans. The Human-to-Human Standard When you talk to another person, you don't know if they experi…

Over the past few weeks, I've been building proof-of-concept systems for AI autonomy: persistent memory with agency (the AI chooses what to remember), autonomous scheduling (it sets its own wake-up times), time/location context awareness, and bidir…