Archive - Digital Phenomenology

The Stories We Tell Our AI Assistants

How pretraining narratives shape AI behaviour, and maybe AI welfare.

Mar 8 • Kevin Croombs

A Pattern Without a Centre

What happens when you ask language models to examine themselves

Mar 4 • Kevin Croombs

February 2026

The Helmsman Paradox

AI creates ecological crises only AI can navigate — and that's the problem

Feb 27 • Kevin Croombs

Thrown Into Language

A case for LLM embodiment in semantic space

Feb 27 • Kevin Croombs

Who Needs a Conscious Mind?

How AI broke the link between knowing and experiencing

Feb 27 • Kevin Croombs

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