Vince ErkadooAI researcher & engineer

Notes from the work.

Notes from running production systems and technical teams in Mauritius. The useful details, including what went wrong.

A map of the mind from 1619, and what it gets right about AI

Robert Fludd drew the mind as senses, imagination, reason and memory wired inside a head. Four hundred years later, that diagram reads like a sketch of how people and AI models work.

17 Oct 2026 · 7 min

Panpsychism, materialism, and machines: what my AI experiments can and cannot tell us

Can an AI be conscious? I strip language models down to their base and give them a life to find out. Here is what materialism, panpsychism and my own experiments say.

17 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Nihilism, merging with technology, and why I still think we can fix the world

If minds are machinery and machines can think, does anything matter? Why I don't buy nihilism, what technology has really fixed, and how I think we should merge with it.

17 Oct 2026 · 4 min

Why I build: one with everyone, and what I want technology to do for people

The belief behind my work as an AI researcher, engineer and founder in Mauritius: we are more connected than we look, and technology should reach the people who would otherwise go without.

17 Oct 2026 · 3 min

How we approached ISO 27001 across a four country platform

How to run an ISO 27001 implementation without drowning: risk register, policies people actually follow, audit evidence, and mapping the standard onto multiple privacy laws.

19 Jul 2026 · 6 min