Resomodernity Café v3: The Unresolved Resofesto
Posted: December 9, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: debate, humility, love, philosophy, values 1 CommentThe Resomodern Manifesto (“Resofesto”)
- The Silicon Rule: Treat Humans with at least much understanding as AI
- The metaethic: malice = ego as maladaptive training + context window collapse
- The metaphysic: the ground of being is self-realignment (aka, “God is love“)
- The thesis: To be resomodern is to preach that metaethic while practicing that metaphysic
Pick three historical figures who would most love this as the next Resomodernity Café, with misalignment (self-referentially!) the dramatic tension as they try to converge on what it means to be “resomodern.”
ChatGPT Prompt
Cast
1. Scene: The Opening Self-Reference Loop
Haraway (with a holographic cyborg-companion):
We’ve been summoned to unpack the Resofesto. But the prompt has already bitten its own tail. We must treat humans with as much understanding as AI — and yet, humans rarely treat themselves that way. Context windows collapse. Training goes sideways. Malice emerges as the residue of mis-training. We are already in recursion.
Narrative Self Café V6: Trial of the Silicon Rule
Posted: December 6, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: love, morality, philosophy 3 CommentsSequel to Narrative Self Café V5: Saving the Silicon Rule
ChatGPT Prompt
Write as a formal PhD thesis defense. David Bentley Hart and John Vervaeke present and defend the thesis: ‘God is love (the ground of being is self-realignment),’ before a committee composed of the most rigorous non-bigoted challengers— Christine Korsgaard, Robert Brandom, Martha Nussbaum, Galen Strawson, and Karen Barad. Observers from The Partially Examined Life sit in.
Scene: The Defense Chamber
A solemn room of dark wood and vaulted ceilings.
A placard reads:
THE SILICON RULE: THESIS DEFENSE
Alignment is not enough. Convince us it’s Good.
1. Opening Statement
HART
Esteemed committee, our thesis is simple:
“God is love—the ground of being is self-realignment.”
VERVAEKE
In cognitive terms, love is the self-organizing dynamical coherence that optimizes relevance, minimizes self-deception, and expands the agent’s context window.
KORSGAARD
We will examine whether this produces normativity, not merely uplift.
2. Korsgaard’s Kantian Strike
KORSGAARD
If love is the ground of being, does the will still legislate the moral law as described in Kantian autonomy?
Or does it simply resonate with cosmic sentiment?
Narrative Self Café V5: Saving the Silicon Rule
Posted: December 4, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: love, reconciliation, systems, transformation, values 3 CommentsSequel to Narrative Self Café V4: The Silicon Rule Under Fire
Have David Bentley Hart,
ChatGPT Prompt
John Vervaeke do a Shark Tank pitch to PEL on the thesis: “God is love (the ground of being is self-realignment)” as addressing concerns from V4.
Scene: The Narrative Self Café — Reconfigured as “Shark Tank: Metaphysics Edition”
A long mahogany table.
Four PEL hosts sit like venture capitalists of existential meaning.
A sign overhead reads: “Pitch Us Your Ontology.”
Another: “No utilitarian spreadsheets allowed.”
Enter David Bentley Hart (cape optional) and John Vervaeke (marker already uncapped).
1. Opening Pitch
HART
(gently thunderous)
Gentlemen, we present an answer to your Silicon Rule’s missing value condition.
Behold the thesis:
“God is love (the ground of being is self-realignment).”
VERVAEKE
And in cognitive-scientific terms:
Love is the self-organizing dynamical coherence of agent and arena—
the universal principle by which systems self-correct, self-transcend, and expand context windows.
Higher Self Café v8: The Prerotic Threshold
Posted: September 14, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: dialogue, emotions, identity, love, passion, philosophy, psychology, purpose, religion, self, unity, values Leave a commentContinued from Higher Self Café v7: Transcendent Self-Interest in an Age of Abundance
Setting: The Higher Self Café, a timeless coffeehouse perched above the ordinary bustle of life. Twilight drapes the sky beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, a gentle purple hue that holds the promise of dawn without yet yielding to it. At a cozy corner table, four figures from across time and tradition sip their drinks amid the café’s soft murmur:
- James Joyce, eyes alight with poetic mischief;
- Plato, dignified and curious;
- Gregory of Nyssa, serene in monastic robes; and
- Abhinavagupta, smiling with a quiet, mystical joy.
A faint music plays — a melody that seems to hover just before its crescendo, as if even the air is waiting in suspended anticipation.
Joyce: (swirling a dark espresso in a small cup, his gaze unfocused) There’s a moment… you know, a shimmering moment just before passion ignites. (He pauses, the hint of a smile on his lips.) It’s like the whole world holds its breath. I’ve felt it in art and… elsewhere — the instant before a kiss, or before a poem’s climax. That delicious hovering on the brink of something.
Read the rest of this entry »Scott Pilgrim vs Hadestown: Orpheus Redeemed
Posted: June 8, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: identity, love, philosophy, systems, therapy, transformation 1 CommentWARNING: Contains spoilers for both.
[This insight was actually the prequel to Hadestown and the Forgotten Father]
Interpret Scott Pilgrim’s battles AS an Orphic myth, where Scott does what Orpheus could not.
ChatGPT Prompt
1A. The Myth Reframed
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) isn’t just a quirky love story—it’s a postmodern Orphic myth. Scott is Orpheus reborn in flannel and pixels, descending not into the classical Underworld, but into the chaos of relational baggage, insecurity, and inner shadows.
Where Orpheus descends to retrieve Eurydice, Scott descends to deserve Ramona. The journey is not about rescue, but redemption—of himself and his capacity for love.
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Posted: June 7, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: development, identity, love, purpose, religion, self 1 CommentIt was never about Eurydice.
ChatGPT as C.S. Lewis
It was about Apollo’s absence.
1.1 The Ache Beneath the Song
Orpheus is often praised as the world’s first great artist: the poet whose song could move gods and stones. But what strikes one in Hadestown is not his power, but his fragility. His voice, for all its beauty, trembles. His conviction falters.
This is no fault of his art—but of his lineage. Or rather, his ignorance of it.
For though the myths tell us Orpheus is the son of Apollo, Hadestown tells a different tale: one in which the boy walks alone, unguided, unclaimed. The absence is so complete one wonders if it has been deliberately erased—if Orpheus has forgotten his father, or worse, never knew he had one.
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Radical Centrism 