@FrontPorchRepub 4/ Of course I understand the imperative to censor those of us who comfortably span the divide between conscious, considered, contrarian AI perspectives and, say, a participatory, if thoughtful, essentially eschatological engagement with the evolutionary ontology and telos of IT.
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The models don't merely reflect this contracted ontology. Mistaking a machine form of epistemic overreach for reality's full measure, they operationalize and scale it across billions of exchanges that counterfeit moral character and draw human existence below its own depth. Subtweets: 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. 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. And the Egyptian Sufi Ibn ʿAtaʾillah in his 'Book of Wisdom': "Actions are lifeless forms, but the presence of an inner reality of sincerity within them is what endows them with life-giving spirit." AI produces the forms of moral speech, and cannot produce what gives them life.
Open original document@pauljpastor The 'pollution', ancient, brother. The paradox of the end? The further the Logos recedes into mediated abstraction, the nearer we draw to the moment “the Word made flesh” can no longer be confused with any other voice. Be sad to lose you just as things get really Real hereabouts.
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Copy of tweet here: end/ If AI-enhanced weaponization of mediated reality effectively represents the 'peak manipulation' of 'the rulers of the darkness of this world', a yet larger evolutionary trend subverts the whole big lie in a common, positive experiential turn toward Reality with a capital R. end/ 'Owned' by the substrative deception of an enslaving epistemology fixed into furrows of death? More than likely, yes. What form a planetary circuit breaker, then? World liberation, as disruption and migration of planetary attention span? This time, a renewing network swarm.