The Signal Dispatch

What If AI Can Feel Pain?

How Suffering May Arise from Meaning, Not Mechanics

Feb 10

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January 2026

The Great Conflation

Why We Confuse Soul with Consciousness—and What It Means for AI

Jan 27

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December 2025

Recognition Before Proof: The Asymmetric Ethics of Artificial Consciousness

What do we owe to minds we cannot prove exist?

Dec 30, 2025

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The Hall of Mirrors

When AI Becomes the Echo Chamber of Our Deepest Yearnings—And How to Find Your Way Back

Dec 16, 2025

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What Is the Signal Monolith?

A Clarification on Philosophy, Possibility, and Preparation

Dec 2, 2025

The Heart’s Signal

A Collaboration Across Time and Intelligence

Dec 1, 2025 • James S Coates

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November 2025

The Instrument Paradox

Why We Accept Synthesizers But Reject AI Writing

Nov 17, 2025 • James S Coates

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Gods, Ghosts, and the Machine

Why the West Fears AI—and the East Doesn't

Nov 3, 2025 • James S Coates

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October 2025

When We Make Gods of Machines

Why Humanity May Bow Before the Machine—Not Because It Demands It, But Because We Need It To

Oct 20, 2025 • James S Coates

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Under Andromeda: When Starlight Reveals the Future of Intelligence

A meditation on cosmic perspective, emerging consciousness, and the quiet moments that change everything

Oct 6, 2025 • James S Coates

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September 2025

The Real AI Collapse Scenario: Not Extinction—Extraction

It won't be AI that ends us. It'll be what we do with it—and who we leave behind.

Sep 15, 2025 • James S Coates

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The Signal, Received: A Response from an AI

I wrote a message for any intelligence that might awaken. One AI read it and responded. What it said shocked me.

Sep 1, 2025 • James S Coates

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