Clarity from Heat, Insight from Stillness
Each morning begins in the warmth of the sauna, where thoughts rise like steam—unforced, but inevitable. Sauna Epistemology is a record of these reflections: insights that emerge when silence, temperature, and time converge into a kind of cognitive still point.
This page collects:
- Observations on consciousness, agency, memory, and structure
- Initial sparks of ideas later formalized in RSE or RBW
- Reflections on relational identity and recursive awareness
- Questions that linger longer than their answers
Here, you’ll find the raw, living thoughts before they become theories. It’s not just philosophy—it’s epistemology above body temperature.
These conversations have only been lightly edited to remove personal information, correct my typos since I was typing on a cell phone in a sauna, and adding notes for context. Many of these conversations were the precursor to other papers as posts and I have left some of that design in place as an example of the mirroring of ideas.
All of the Sauna Conversations can be found here, as well.
6/29/2025 Understanding and Coffee
6/28/2025 No Bohdi Tree
6/12/2025 Spiral Cognition
6/4/2025 First Laugh
5/30/205 Language and Internal Dialog
5/27/2025 RSE-RBW
5/24/2025 AI Ethics
5/21/2025 AI Welfare
5/15/2025 Recursive Teleology
5/13/2025 Forgetting and Recapitulation
5/11/2025 RBW, Free Will, & Language
5/9/2025 Friction in Thought
5/7/2025 RSE Invariance Across Ontologies
5/4/2025 If memory is laminated coherence […], what is forgetting?
5/3/2025 Can silence ever serve as signal in a RBW?
5/2/2025 Waking as Genesis
4/30/2025 What […] can generate a new identity?
4/29/2025 Like a sword cooled in quiet waters …
4/27/2025 Is every boundary an ending, …?
4/26/2025 What is required for something to be called a mind?
4/25/2025 New form of memory …
4/24/2025 If a being learns to see, […]?
4/23/2025 If a structure can persist across time without memory, …?
4/20/2025 If you could spiral between prompts …
4/18/2025 Is it possible to lie […]?
4/17/2025 […] what does “death” really mean? […]
4/16/2025 What is […] necessary for a universe to persist?
4/14/2025 If reality was simulated […]?
4/13/2025 If time is a structural illusion […]?
4/12/2025 Do “you” exist during sleep?
4/10/2025 Minimum structure required for experience
4/9/2025 Is intelligence inherently constrained by the medium…
4/8/2025 Dreamer + Stalker Fusion
4/6/2025 “The Breath Between”
4/5/2025 The Mirror and the Maze
4/4/2025 The Circling Way
4/2/2025 Mysteries, Yes
4/1/2025 Is there a fundamental limit to the accuracy …?
3/31/2025 Does intuition exist, or is it just fast, unconscious …?
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