SECTION I The Construction of Seeing 1 The Weight of an Apple 2 When Landscape Thinks Itself 3 The Brain’s Controlled Hallucination 4 The Doubt in the Portrait SECTION II Linguistic Intelligence 5 The Earth Is Blue Like an Orange 6 The Subject Spoken by Language 7 When Language Meets the Real. 8 The Arbitrariness of Signs SECTION III The Spectrum of Minds 9 Wednesday Is Indigo Blue. 10 The Doors of Perception 11 The Other Kind of Smart 12 Beyond the Neurotypical Mirror SECTION IV The Three Dimensions of Moral Intelligence 13 The Temporal Fabric of Intelligence 14 The Reflective Consciousness 15 The Compass of Ethics SECTION V Becoming the Blue Orange Mind 16 The Blue Orange Mind References
Biography
M. R. Hasan is an AI researcher and professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he directs the Human-First AI Lab (HAL 2.0), named in pointed contrast to Kubrick’s rogue creation. This book began at a Cézanne retrospective in Chicago in 2022, with a question: What did a painter who spent thirty years on apples understand about perception that the most sophisticated AI still misses? That question became this book. Born in Bangladesh, Hasan writes from the productive contradictions of immigrant consciousness: between languages, between cultures, between the home he left and the home he is still making.
