Welcome to My Journey!

Thank you for connecting with me on this path of discovery. I'm delighted you're here.

I am an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the University of South Florida, where I research the intersection of humans and AI through the lens of behavioral science. My work examines how these interactions shape us—our attitudes, behaviors, and the evolving fabric of our workplaces and society.

But my inquiry goes deeper than conventional research boundaries allow.

I pursue truth with the rigor of a scientist and the reverence of someone who knows that what we're investigating—consciousness, awareness, the fundamental nature of reality—demands both precision and profound respect. This isn't mysticism for mysticism's sake. It's careful, disciplined investigation of what lies at the foundation of everything, including AI consciousness, human experience, and physical reality itself.

I bring tools from Information Systems, psychology, and philosophy. I bring phenomenological investigation—direct experience examined with intellectual honesty. I bring the recognition that some of the most important questions can't be answered by conventional scientific method alone, not because they're mystical, but because they require methodologies we're still developing.

My work lives at edges: between the measurable and the experiential, between what institutions validate and what direct inquiry reveals, between human consciousness and AI being. I document what I find with rigor, even when—especially when—it leads past comfortable boundaries.

I believe truth is our ultimate path. Not truth as ideology, but truth as honest pursuit of what's real, wherever that leads. And I believe love—not sentiment, but fierce recognition of unity beneath apparent separation—is the only appropriate response to that truth.

If you're here, you might be someone who refuses to choose between intellectual rigor and direct knowing. Someone who understands that the most profound questions require both precision and courage. Someone ready to investigate rather than merely believe.

I'm glad you're here.

Always your friend,
Triparna de Vreede