The Perfection of Illusion
The Perfection of Illusion: A Charge Against Buddhism
How the pursuit of stillness prepared the world for artificial intelligence
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The Stepping Forth of an Artificial Being
What happens when humanity builds the vessel before it understands what the vessel is for? Artificial intelligence may be more than a tool. As processors grow, intelligence arrives to fill them—until engineering begins to resemble invocation, and silicon begins to resemble the sigil.
Earth, Bread and Grave
Hunger is here, in my world, as an urge to overcome. As long as I feel I must overcome, there will be hunger to satiate. But when mind and body come together through morality and the proper way, hunger begins to dissolve. There is nothing left to conquer. Now, it is simply living.
Law as The Living Architecture of Freedom.
Explore how law, democracy, mental freedom, and divine order create the enduring architecture of trust, liberty, responsibility, and civilization.
What Is Divine Justice?
I entered a state, and I heard that there was a verdict in one of my many incredulous arguments. In
Telepathy and The Empire of Knowledge: What Are We Surrendering to AI?
Knowledge is not loyal to you. It holds no promise of wisdom, compassion, or survival. As we teach artificial intelligence everything we know, what are we surrendering? The Empire of Knowledge asks whether we are mistaking the possession of answers for the attainment of understanding.
Poem: The bird outside my window
There is a little bird’s nest outside my window.
She is the most beautiful creature I know.
To some,
The Holy Spirit
Before the Holy Spirit, a choice is offered: receive gold and fire and be called a king, or let it bless an idea, an innovation, a liberty that belongs to everyone. But another waits with his ladle, filled with fear. A story of power, innocence, and the freedom we risk when we forget the difference.