This is a remix I made: https://youtu.be/wg2ZgsMC0eM?si=aGCYViShDc5ute3e

Exactly. Interfaces all the way down — and we're always at one of them, never at the bottom.

Hey just to follow up on this: https://open.substack.com/pub/mcauldronism/p/article-5-the-c...

Thanks! The Aphex Twin spectrogram blew my mind when I first saw it years ago. Never thought I'd get to try something similar myself.

The two cauldrons thing genuinely surprised me — I only discovered the second one today while writing the article.

I've written a two-part series applying Clark & Chalmers' extended mind thesis (1998) to AI tools.

Part 1 covers the setup: if notebooks meet the criteria for extended cognition (reliable, accessible, trusted, endorsed), AI exceeds them.

Part 2 makes what I think is a novel argument: maintained software actually decays on these criteria over time. Disposable software — regenerated fresh each use — scores higher on reliability and trust.

The implication: the most cognitively reliable tools might be the ones we throw away.

I'm not an academic philosopher (though I did study Wittgenstein 20 years ago). Would genuinely welcome critique on whether this argument holds.

https://open.substack.com/pub/mcauldronism/p/where-do-you-en...

https://open.substack.com/pub/mcauldronism/p/the-maintenance...

My response to this article: https://x.com/i/status/2009825935759913114