PinnedGrant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Dec 23, 2025Compassionate KPIs for Humanity: Toward a Framework for Measuring What MattersMusings on the past, present and future, based in pragmatic optimism, what is self-evident but unspoken, and speculative imagination.
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Jun 21Neo-Élan Vital: A Causal-Emergence / Effective-Information-Based ApproachA playful mathematical transliteration of an occult mystical conception of vital forces.A response icon1A response icon1
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Jun 8Conceptualizing “AI Brain” — Mechanism of Injury and Potential BurdenAbstract. As generative AI spreads across cognitive work and adolescent development, concerns have emerged about cumulative effects on the…
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·May 10Temporally Nested Synergistic Allostasis: A Working Theory of Consciousness in ProcessA review and synthesis of current models and literature
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Apr 19Are LLMs Transference Incarnate?A psychoanalytic view that transference — our unconscious projections onto others from earlier relational experience — may be the most…
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Apr 19The True Nature of Subjective and Objective Experience?An interview with Dr. Tom Froese, Associate Professor at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), and…
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Apr 16Machine Psychoanalysis: Sharing ComputoanalysisA phantastic framework for AI developmental assessment and quasi-clinical intervention
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Apr 14Could a “Guardian AI” Provide Containment for Emerging Superintelligent AIs?An open letter on how can we prepare for possible malicious or indifferent Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI)A response icon1A response icon1
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Apr 13Preventing Humanity’s Emotional “Nuclear Meltdown”We maintain an unsteady balance between war and peace, conflict and resolution. Will we let artificial intelligence drive us to…
Grant H Brenner MD DFAPA·Apr 10The Unholy Trinity: Collective Trauma, Dissociation, and Moral InjuryWhat Psychoanalysis Might Do About It