Alan L. McCann
Author and software engineer. Two lines of work — the recovery of the ancient Christian vision, and the formal limits of machine intelligence — and one question running through both: the person.
Vesica Press
The Way Series & The Person at the Boundary
A trilogy on seeing, living, and becoming — and a book on what the machines are revealing about the human person.
mashin
the mashin intelligence series
Formal theory, essays, and fiction on governed intelligence — where computation stops, and what stands there. Companion to the mashin platform.
- Intent-Driven Computing A Formal Theory of Governed Intelligence the mashin intelligence series · Book 1
- The Boundary of the Sayable Intelligence, Governance, and Personhood the mashin intelligence series · Book 2
- The Medium of Intelligence Will, the Machine, and the Person Standalone
- Yellow A Short Story the mashin intelligence series · $0.99
About
Alan L. McCann has spent three decades building software and a lifetime circling one question: what are these systems, really? Born Catholic but raised secular, a twenty-five-year search led him back to the Church and into its intellectual and contemplative traditions. As an engineer he built a governed AI architecture and verified it with 601 machine-checked theorems; the proofs disclosed a boundary the tradition had already named.
He writes at the meeting point of those two circles. The Way Series recovers the ancient Christian way of seeing; the mashin intelligence series maps the formal limits of the machine. The Person at the Boundary is the doorway between them.
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