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Mystical lineages, ethics, and consciousness studies that frame a shared civilizational story.

August 25, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to God

Reflecting on divine communication, decentralized consciousness, and the trust that humanity will choose compassion.

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July 24, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to Volodymyr Zelensky

Your meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance in the White House on February 28, 2025 was a puzzling, thought-provoking spectacle.

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June 23, 2025•4 min read

An Open Letter to President Donald J. Trump

If the Abraham Accords had been implemented in both letter and spirit, the Middle East might already be well on the road to peace. Instead, the region is dotted with powder kegs that could ignite at any moment.

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June 13, 2025•3 min read

An Open Letter to Ayatollah Khamenei

I write with a heavy heart after the devastating airstrikes of 13 June 2025, in which Israeli aircraft hit dozens of Iranian military and nuclear sites, causing great loss of life--including senior commanders and scientists--in a...

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June 9, 2025•2 min read

An Open Letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping

A man finds the ruins of an old city near his hometown. Curious about his ancestors, he begins to excavate. In the ruins, he finds evidence of architecture, engineering, art, and poetry that indicated a civilization led by a community of...

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June 4, 2025•2 min read

An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIV

As you embraced the papacy upon your election, facing a historic crowd at a historic time, the expressions on your face indicated overwhelm. With your lips sealed, you pulled in three strong vortexes of air through your nose, before...

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March 18, 2025•1 min read

Personal Superintelligence is Here

The search for next generation artificial intelligence is on with several outstanding teams pursuing diverse visions for the development of superintelligence. But it is already here.

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March 15, 2024•1 min read

Neural Networks and the Hard Problem of Consciousness

Exploring whether artificial neural networks can help us understand the emergence of subjective experience in biological systems.

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March 5, 2024•1 min read

Phenomenology in the Digital Age

Revisiting Husserl and Merleau-Ponty's ideas about embodied experience in an era of virtual reality and digital interfaces.

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November 14, 2023•5 min read

The Sims

Researchers at Google DeepMind and Stanford University published a paper this year demonstrating how computational software agents can simulate believable human behavior. They created a sandbox environment, inspired by a video game called...

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October 30, 2023•3 min read

Unity

The events unfolding now were set into motion long ago. We may not be able to stop them but we can still build an inclusive vision for a better future.

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October 16, 2023•10 min read

Psychohistory Reloaded

In the Foundation series of Sci-Fi books written by Isaac Asimov, the main protagonist Dr. Harry Seldan is an expert in psychohistory which uses history, psychology, sociology, and statistical mathematics to predict the future of...

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October 10, 2023•2 min read

Peace is Jerusalem

Most civilizations have encountered the dream to harmonize minds at scale but found it to be notoriously hard.

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Intersections is Shan Rizvi's notebook of open letters, peace architecture, and technical lab notes. The essays move between heads-of-state diplomacy, semantic graph memory design, and the mystical traditions that still inform modern governance.

Each piece is an attempt to weave neuroscience, theology, and emerging AI into strategies that make reconciliation and human-centric intelligence feel actionable.

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