About
Independent inquiry
Society of Explorers brings two inquiries together. Discover Truth checks claims about human origins, ancient texts and belief. Meridian studies who may authorize a machine, what limits apply, and who can stop it. Both publish sources, uncertainty and corrections. Participation is voluntary; people decide what they share.
Independent inquiry · no token or membership sale · no IBM affiliation
Who is asking
Christopher Taylor
Operations Center Dispatcher at Nexamp. Background in U.S. power markets — real-time trading and scheduling, and solar-plus-battery operations. Cleantech Open Northeast 2017 Finalist.
Why he is asking: these questions sit exactly where energy, machines, and coordination meet the work he has actually done. SoE publishes independent exploration. Optional Discover Truth guides support the work; they do not establish a research result or buy influence over a finding.
- Practitioner
- Explorer
- Researcher
- Narrator
Lenses
What SoE reads beside practice
Singularity / evolution
Kurzweil as forecast; punctuated-equilibrium language as metaphor only.
Heidegger / QCT
Enframing and standing-reserve as real counterargument — not slogans.
Polanyi
“Society of Explorers” from the Republic of Science ideal — not his institution.
Consciousness
Spiritual-personal or metaphysical-hypothesis only — never physics claim.
Legacy journey pages and longer doors live in the Archive (Explore → Gather → Build, Collective, Space, Visual Arc).