Here’s a question that sounds simple. When you see a red apple, where does the redness come from? The obvious answer, from the apple. The apple reflects certain wavelengths, your eye detects them, your brain processes the signal, you perceive red. Information flows in from… 

There’s an assumption so deep in Western thought that it feels like common sense. That thinking is processing. That the mind takes in information, manipulates symbols according to rules, and outputs conclusions. That intelligence, human or artificial, is fundamentally a computational process. That somewhere inside… 

Everything was flowing. Then it stopped. The software crashes mid-presentation. The word you always knew suddenly looks wrong on the page. The road you drive every day is closed. For a moment you’re suspended, neither here nor there, and in that suspension something unusual happens.… 

Pick up a hammer. When you’re actually hammering, focused, in the work, where is the hammer? It’s not in your awareness. You’re aware of the nail, the wood, the thinfg you’re building. The hammer has disappeared. It became an extension of your intention. Heidegger called…