David Croppi

David Croppi is an author from Issaquah, WA. He is writing Awaken: The Turn Inward at the Edge of AI, a nonfiction exploration of consciousness, the limits of artificial intelligence, and the one question our technology cannot answer for us.

The Self Is Not a Noun. It's a Verb.

Right now, without trying, you are being a self. Narrating your experience. Monitoring how you're perceived. Replaying the past. You didn't decide to do any of that. It's just running. Neuroscience has a name for the system responsible — and it turns out the ancient world got there first.

The Dream You Couldn't Read

You've had this moment. You're inside a dream, everything feels completely real — and then the letters won't resolve. The numbers slip. Something notices. This video explores what that moment reveals about the nature of awareness itself.

Who Are You, Really?

This is the first video on The Turn Inward — a channel exploring consciousness, awareness, and the civilizational threshold we are crossing together. It begins not with artificial intelligence, but with a question far older: Who are you, really?

The Turn Inward

Artificial intelligence can now do what we do. That fact has produced the one question our tools have never before been able to force upon us: If the machine can do what I do — what am I? That question is what this project is about.