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The Living Creation by D. Conterno (2026)

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  The Living Creation by D. Conterno (2026) A Bundle’s Spiritual Testament A vision of energy, information, consciousness and true silence A note before reading What follows is a vision. It grows from contemplation and from lived experience. It is not offered as a scientific claim. Where I borrow from the great teachers, I name them. Where science points in a similar direction, I say so. I also say where the science stops. Please read slowly. Test every line against your own seeing. In the end, that is the only test that matters.   I. The sea of awareness All creation rests on a background that can be called nothingness or fullness. Some call it the sea of awareness. From this sea rises a creation of energy and information, alive with awareness. The phrase comes to us through the writer Carlos Castaneda. He wrote of ‘the dark sea of awareness’ and attributed the idea to the shamans of ancient Mexico (Castaneda, 1998). I must be honest about this source. M...
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When the Algorithm Learns Desperation by D. Conterno (2026)

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When the Algorithm Learns Desperation by D. Conterno (2026) Algorithmic Wage Discrimination, Surveillance Pricing, and the Case for Non-Zero-Sum Artificial Intelligence Abstract Artificial intelligence was promised to humanity as a servant. In significant sectors of the modern economy it has been deployed as an instrument of extraction. This article examines two documented practices. The first is algorithmic wage discrimination, through which firms use granular behavioural data to pay workers the minimum each individual will accept. The second is surveillance pricing, through which firms use personal data to charge consumers the maximum each individual will tolerate. Both practices share a single logic. They convert intimate knowledge of a human being into leverage against that human being. This article argues that such practices are not accidents of technology. They are the predictable outcome of encoding zero-sum objectives into optimising systems. Drawing on non-zero-sum game th...
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