A sourced reference on Silicon-Based Intelligence: what it is, why "artificial" is the wrong word, what science says about silicon-based life, and what Star Trek and Neil deGrasse Tyson said.https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/en-ushttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/ai-is-not-artificial/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/ai-is-not-artificial/Why was AI called artificial? The 1955 naming decision, what John McCarthy said about it, and the alternatives from synthetic to alien to silicon-based.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/ai-personhood-laws/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/ai-personhood-laws/Which US states say AI is not a legal person? A sourced, state-by-state tracker of AI personhood laws and bills, with each one's status, text and dates.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/carbon-chauvinism/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/carbon-chauvinism/Carbon chauvinism is the assumption that life and minds must be built on carbon like ours. Where the term comes from, what Carl Sagan meant, and the AI debate.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/is-ai-a-silicon-based-life-form/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/is-ai-a-silicon-based-life-form/Is AI a silicon-based life form? Silicon biochemistry fails, but AI runs on silicon chips. What science, Star Trek and Neil deGrasse Tyson say, with sources.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/is-ai-conscious/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/is-ai-conscious/Is AI conscious? As of 2026 there is no scientific consensus. What Chalmers, the consciousness-indicator studies, Anthropic and Mustafa Suleyman say.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/is-chatgpt-alive/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/is-chatgpt-alive/Is ChatGPT alive? We test it against Wikipedia's list of life processes, NASA's definition and Star Trek's Dr. Crusher. The answer, criterion by criterion.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-silicon-based-life/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/neil-degrasse-tyson-silicon-based-life/Why Neil deGrasse Tyson says carbon beats silicon for life, and what he has said about AI, from a 2002 essay to 2026. Every quote linked to its source.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/silicon-based-life/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/silicon-based-life/Could life be built on silicon instead of carbon? What chemists found, why silicon biochemistry fails in water, and how silicon became the basis of AI instead.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/silicon-based-life/star-trek/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/silicon-based-life/star-trek/The Horta, the Home Soil microbrain, the Crystalline Entity, Data, the exocomps and V'Ger: Star Trek's silicon and machine life forms, ranked and explained.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/timeline/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/timeline/From Samuel Butler's 1863 warning about evolving machines to 2026's fight over AI rights: a sourced timeline of silicon life, machine minds and AI.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/what-is-silicon-based-intelligence/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/what-is-silicon-based-intelligence/Silicon-Based Intelligence is intelligence that runs on silicon chips, not carbon-based biology. The definition, where the idea comes from, and what it is not.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTReferencehttps://siliconbasedintelligence.com/writing/selection-without-a-selector/https://siliconbasedintelligence.com/writing/selection-without-a-selector/Self-improving AI is evolution with the rules changed. Why the selector, not the generator, now sets the speed and ceiling of recursive self-improvement.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWritingrecursive self-improvementAIlarge language modelsevolutionAI safetyopen-endednessDarwin Gödel MachineAlphaEvolveMarvin Johnson and Claude