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@MG92__2 @cognazor 4/ The deeper blindness is the AI mindset, the techno-industrial complex it both serves and crowns, and its incapacity to see what it most needs to see—vast realms of consciousness, culture, and the natural world that precede and exceed it. What is most real is not a data type.

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Feb 2026

@riyeff Every technology eventually forces two questions: what kind of humans are we becoming—and what do we believe truly matters? Ultimately, its deepest significance isn't what it does, but what it reveals: our desires, the limits of our stories, the orders we take for granted.

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Quoted by@jasonwblakely Much AI discourse trades on a false equivalence. Plants and rivers never lost their presence or character. Moderns mistake deficit of apprehension for deficit of being. Communication implies relation, not anthropomorphism. Nature and computers aren't the same order of reality.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @capt_grenville @SamBuntz Yes. And wherever that soul—or whatever form cognates of it take across the world’s traditions—resides, AI's order of being has no access and can have none. That a self-anointing reductionism asserts otherwise merely exposes its fundamental blindness before reality itself.Quoted by@capt_grenville @SamBuntz Yes. And wherever that soul—or whatever form cognates of it take across the world’s traditions—resides, AI's order of being has no access and can have none. That a self-anointing reductionism asserts otherwise merely exposes its fundamental blindness before reality itself.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @JMGreerWriter You know of no one pondering AI in 'religious terms'? Xian onto-theological currents are very active—Vatican ethicists, Orthodox leaders, evangelicals, counter-cultural theologians and media ecologists, all. In a planetarian mode, post-exceptionalist messianists are busy, too.Quoted by@JMGreerWriter You know of no one pondering AI in 'religious terms'? Xian onto-theological currents are very active—Vatican ethicists, Orthodox leaders, evangelicals, counter-cultural theologians and media ecologists, all. In a planetarian mode, post-exceptionalist messianists are busy, too.Quoted by@lukeburgis A confession of emptiness that doesn't know it is empty, dressed as a manifesto. ?s=20