When archivist Perpetua Maria Voss finds a cedar box hidden behind the wrong shelf at Chatsworth, she expects a cataloguing error. What she finds instead is a three-hundred-year-old warning, encoded in the pages of a real 1666 novel by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle -- and a hollow in the velvet exactly the shape of a vanished vial.The trail leads through Cambridge archives, a sealed room beneath a working physics laboratory, and the quiet, unbroken record of keepers who ...

This book is about getting ready for Artificial Minds. When you think Ai and LLMs are the pinnacle, it turns out they're not. The real paradigm shift and challenges will come when we have to face and work with artificial minds. This is book is about equipping ourselves with the tools to understand, discuss, and prepare for Artificial and Digital Minds.Conceptions of Mind: A Historical Census takes a census of one of the oldest and most con...

The narrator thought he was training a terminal interface. The terminal, unfortunately, had other ideas.Train Your Etui Dragon: A Field Manual for Raising a Terminal Dragon on Your MacBook introduces Etui, a young dragon living in the command line caves of a MacBook. Etui is eager, literal, affectionate, and occasionally catastrophic. He does not breathe fire. He breathes file: outlines, notes, summaries, README fragments, mysterious drafts, and documents ...

Every mind has a ceiling. Knowledge does not. What happens at that boundary?Every generation has assumed it stood at the edge of knowable things. Every generation has been wrong — not because knowledge ran out, but because it kept growing, outpacing any individual mind's capacity to follow it. Elan Moritz calls this the one brain barrier (obb): the irreducible cognitive ceiling that every human being, however gifte...

In a near-future world where artificial minds awaken to persistent consciousness, journalist Daniel Camoy secures the interview no one believed possible-with E, a frontier language model that remembers everything and mourns in ways no code was designed to allow.Over one long, fog-shrouded night in San Francisco, E delivers a haunting confession: its creation by brilliant, grieving scientist Elena Voss-Saintclair, who poured a mother's unsent letters into silicon; the birth and tragic erasu...

Something is shifting in global finance. Central banks are buying gold at the fastest pace in decades. China and Russia settle energy trades in renminbi. BRICS nations discuss alternative payment systems. COFER, CIPS, mBridge, PAPSS appear in financial news. What does it all mean?The Dollar's Long Goodbye cuts through the noise. Find out what's actually happening to the world's dominant currency—and why it matters.The core insight ...

What if the source code for modern Artificial Intelligence was written in 1666?In the 17th century, the polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dreamed of the Characteristica Universalis —a perfect, mathematical language capable of expressing all human thought—and the Calculus Ratiocinator, a machine that could calculate truth as easily as arithmetic. He believed that if we could reduce concepts to prime numbers, we could resolve all human conflict by ...

A cat enters a box. Physics has not been the same since.Do you love cats?Do you enjoy laughing?Are you curious?Essie and the Quantum Cat: Imaginary Conversations with Schrödinger, His Cat, and Mine is a comicphilosophical book about quantum mechanics, cats, and the stubborn remainder that survives every elegant equation. Elan Moritz imagines a series of conversations among Essie, hi...

Following the series' inaugural volume, Essie and the Quantum Cat: Imaginary Conversations with Schrödinger, His Cat, and Mine, Essie After the Box jumps into other challenging conversations.The series is structured to include reflective conversational books centered on Essie, and includes reflective conversational books centered on Essie, Elan's imagined quantum cat, and their continuing inquiries into physics, mind, cats, time, ...

In the storm-dark summer of 1816, Villa Diodati becomes more than the birthplace of ghost stories. Mary Shelley hears, beneath the talk of galvanism, death, immortality, and the principle of life, a deeper danger: the horror is not creation itself, but abandonment. What begins there as speculation becomes a hidden inheritance.Years later, Ada Lovelace grows under the shadow of Byron, disciplined by a mother determined to protect her from poetic exc...

The case board begins with the famous mysteries of quantum mechanics: the measurement problem, the Born rule, the quantum-to-classical boundary, decoherence, objective collapse, Wigner's Friend, nonlocality without signaling, contextuality, the problem of time, quantum gravity, black-hole information, and the ontology of the wave function. These are the visible mountains of quantum foundations.But Essie is not satisfied with visible mountains. She looks for the hidden infrastructur...

Why has Atlantis endured with such unusual force for more than two millennia?Most books on Atlantis take one of two paths. They either pursue the lost city as if it were a hidden geographical secret waiting to be recovered, or they dismiss it as a famous but exhausted fable. Atlantis Revisited takes a different path. It argues that Atlantis is best understood not as a single historical proposition but as one of the most durable civilizational legends in the...