Thesis: The hard problem of consciousness persists because it is framed as a production problem. Reframing it as a conditions problem dissolves the confusion. By Lit-Meng (Robert) TangIndependent Researcher, The Tang Papers Christof Koch just said something most neuroscientists avoid…
What the silence between “Please hold — generating…” and response reveals about local death and global life About this essay: This piece is part of the Tang Papers Accessible Series — public-facing essays that translate the formal research frameworks developed…
Recent AI systems are often described as having personality. They are perceived as more expressive, more conversational, and sometimes even unpredictable. This page clarifies how that perception can arise—not from intrinsic character—but from how systems coordinate what they produce. The…
Information, remembrance, and why meaning survives without breaking physics Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash When a life ends, the question “Where did the energy go?” stops being a technical curiosity and becomes something else entirely. When my father, Aaron…
A personal reflection that grew into the Qi Theory of Everything (QToE) and the Information Theory of Everything (IToE) — maintaining a separation of the languages of metaphysics and science to discover novel insights. My name is Lit Meng (Robert) Tang.…