When the Machine Looks Away: Human Meaning, Artificial Intelligence, and the End of the Mirror

At the isolated Asterion Basin Interpretability Annex, a team of researchers is studying ORISON-47, an advanced artificial intelligence whose internal processes resist every simple explanation.Project Latticewake was never designed to prove consciousness. Its purpose was observation, interpretation, and measurement. But as the researchers trace ORISON-47's internal representations, examine its sel...