Stephen Feber FRSA · 2026 · Thirteen interactive graphics for the web publication and RSA lecture. Intelligence is an evolved capacity for ecological coupling, not a scalar property — and consciousness is that same agentless process, felt from within.
2Frame of Intention: Reaching for Coffee
The four-phase coffee cup reach as multi-system active inference. Eleven body systems, precision-weighting, micro threshold crossings within a single intelligent act. Closes on intelligence as agentless stabilising, and the question Floridi's account of Artificial Agency leaves open: what is consciousness for?
3The Frame as a Landscape
The free-energy landscape beneath the frame of intention. The apex prior deforms the surface and the act descends into a basin; deep priors are canalised valleys, shallow priors revisable, the moving frame a moving threshold. A measured / felt reading shows the same descent as the settling that, from within, is the feeling.