Thinking Source

Hi, I’m Siyuan.

Siyuan = thinking (思-si) + source (源-yuan).

I write independent essays on AI, systems, science, and the philosophy of intelligence. My broader goal is to understand what distinguishes humans from AI, what AI can teach us about ourselves and intelligence, and how humans and AI should relate in the future. My current work approaches these questions by studying how intelligent systems learn, reason, and change over time.

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  1. Continual Learning: What Becomes Part of the Learner?

    Continual learning integrates selected experience into a bounded, revisable state that shapes future behavior.

  2. We Are Building the Chinese Room

    LLM operators and agent harnesses create an inspectable analog of the Chinese room’s system architecture.