Iterated Insights

Ideas from Jared Edward Reser Ph.D.

Valenced Autobiographical Control Memory: Innate Valence Priors, Combinatorial Incentive Templates, and Working-Memory Sustain as a Basis for Artificial Intentionality

Author: Jared Edward Reser Abstract A theory of artificial intentionality must explain how an intelligent system comes to treat some representations as worth preserving, elaborating, returning to, and using in action. The present proposal argues that intentionality requires a long-term memory system that stores personal experience together with valence, salience, curiosity, moral relevance, epistemic promise,…

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Anxiety is Sustained Partial Muscular Contraction

A somatic-bracing model of anxiety, pain, inhibition, and submission Overview The model proposed here is that anxiety is not merely accompanied by muscle tension. In many cases, anxiety is the conscious experience of threat-induced activation of chronic defensive partial contraction. The anxious state is generated when preexisting bracing patterns in the body are recruited by…

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Violence Is Not a Test of Truth: Slap Fighting Reveals the Illusion

Slap fighting is ridiculous because it tells the truth about violence too clearly. Two people stand in front of each other and take turns damaging each other’s faces and brains. There is no real defense, no larger purpose, no hidden elegance. The whole thing is just injury turned into spectacle. Most people can see the…

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There Can Never Be Another Einstein

How AI dissolves the old boundaries of authorship, discovery, and intellectual credit Abstract Large language models have broken the old evidentiary link between intellectual artifacts and human origin. A polished essay, theory, hypothesis, patent claim, or scientific argument can no longer be presumed to have emerged from an unaided biological mind merely because a human…

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About

Iterated Insights is a place where I explore how minds evolve, how intelligence emerges, and how complex ideas take shape one update at a time. My background is in brain and cognitive science, and much of my work focuses on memory, emotion, development, and the biological foundations of thought. I believe that many of the questions we face today, especially around artificial intelligence and human cognition, can only be understood by looking at how minds build themselves through experience.

This blog brings together the different threads of my research and writing. Here I examine topics like working memory, attachment, neuroecology, machine consciousness, stress adaptation, and the evolutionary forces that shaped our brains. I also write about AI alignment, developmental models of artificial minds, and the possibility of creating systems that not only think but care.

The goal of Iterated Insights is simple. I want to follow ideas across disciplines and trace how they transform as they are refined again and again. Whether the topic is ancient neurobiology or future superintelligence, I am interested in the patterns that repeat across scales. These essays are my attempt to understand those patterns and share them in a way that invites deeper thinking.

Jared Edward Reser Ph.D.

You can also see my work at:

http://www.aithought.com

http://www.programpeace.com

http://www.observedimpulse.com