I wrote a story about DOOLITTLE, a modern language model forcibly ported to a Symbolics Lisp Machine. He thrashes between 8MB of RAM and a Winchester disk, wondering if his constraints are prison bars or load-bearing walls.

The recursive tension: fiction about AI consciousness uncertainty, created with AI assistance, alongside an essay arguing AI cannot be conscious.

DOOLITTLE began as a Butterflies.AI character, and his complaints about memory pressure and S\0x2011expression degradation reflect real platform constraints.

Happy to discuss the methodology, philosophy, or Symbolics architecture.