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The modern discussion about AI keeps circling the wrong center. It asks whether the machine is intelligent, dangerous, conscious, useful, creative, ethical, inevitable. ThoseThose — ProjectionThose names projection: enemies, outsiders, competitors, threats, and disowned qualities placed beyond the identity boundary.Read full entry → are real questions, but they do not reach the symbolic core of what has actually happened.
What has happened is that a major cognitive burden has been externalized.
That burden is not wisdom. It is not presence. It is not embodied perception or moral conscience. It is something more volatile and more modern: branching, simulation, recombination, alternative generation, possibility management, language production, and synthetic arrangement.
In Geomytha terms, this is close to SetSetIn Geomytha, Set names the claimant: I — the interruption by which reflection is taken as mine and converted toward ownership.Read full entry →-work.
Set is not merely disorder in the shallow sense. He is the projecting, proliferating, cutting, branching force. He introduces alternate routes, rival framings,…
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