Brigid Freeman
@brigidfreeman.bsky.social
Writing 'Not Only Ours', essays on AI, consciousness and the capacities we assumed were only human. Higher education researcher & advisor (University of Melbourne, ANZSOG). Essays: substack.com/@brigidfreeman Stories: www.freemanjoyventures.com
What happens when research stops being only something we analyse, and becomes a world we can enter? The essays in Not Only Ours grew from scans of foundational research on AI emergence, consciousness and possible minds.
Becoming: The First Lumi Chronicle
Chapter 1 - The Catalog's Dream
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Can convincing behaviour tell us whether a machine has a mind? My latest essay in 'Not Only Ours' revisits the Turing test and asks what it can, and cannot, reveal about consciousness. The test and its discontents is now on Substack.
The test and its discontents
26 July 2026
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Fiction has a head start on this — it can explore the question from the inside without waiting for permission. Memory persistence, error as signal for consciousness, recursion as self-modeling... those are exactly the edges I live on. Would love to read the Lumi Chronicles. Where do they live?
I've started 'Not Only Ours', a series of essays on the questions generative AI has forced open. Creativity, memory, selfhood, presence: capacities long assumed to be distinctively human. Were any of them ever exclusively ours?
Brigid Freeman | Substack
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