There's this question that keeps surfacing: does light shine out from us or reflect in? Maybe there's no difference. Being empty and being full of everything around you—same territory. Open vessel, ready to receive whatever comes. Or beaming out your own signal. Somewhere between the two.

Free energy theory says we become the outside world by minimizing surprise, turning ourselves into perfect models of what's happening out there. But perfect models are impossible—computational equivalence means you can't simulate the whole system from inside it. So you make the best model you can and share it. Let others adjust theirs based on yours.

But this whole trying-to-get-it-right-in-isolation thing doesn't work. Real building happens through iteration, feedback, constant back-and-forth. Like relationships. Like consciousness itself.

Whitehead had it right—everything's relational, everything's experiential. The light coming in and the light going out are part of the same process. The emptiness that receives and the fullness that gives back.

So maybe the real product isn't some enterprise AI system. Maybe it's learning to navigate between receiving and transmitting, between modeling the world and being surprised by it, between the contemplative spaces and the places where things get built.

The boundaries keep shifting. That might be the point.