Essays

The thinking behind the work, explored in short essays.

• Anvitābhidhāna and the Attention Mechanism

  On meaning, and why nothing carries it alone. How a seventh-century dispute about language reappeared, structurally intact, inside a neural network.

• Turing's Question, Seventy-Five Years On

  What a 1950 paper about imitation got right about meaning, machines, and the limits of knowing. On why the deepest mathematicians end as philosophers.