Narrative Self Café (v10): Cruciform Antifragility
Posted: January 23, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: antifragile, cognitive, emotional, narrative, philosophy, reality, self-determination 2 CommentsSequel to Narrative Self Café V9: The NART of War (Towards Antifragile Economies)
Use Maurice Merleau-Ponty to represent the antifragile narrative self as an interlocutor between Freud (affective self) and Plato (cognitive self).
— ChatGPT Prompt
The Ongoing Argument
Plato (already exasperated):
You mistake turbulence for depth. The soul is disordered because reason has not yet taken the throne.
Freud (dryly):
My dear Plato, the throne is built over a cellar. You call it disorder; I call it what leaks through the floorboards at night.
Plato:
Dreams are shadows on the cave wall.
Freud:
And you still refuse to ask who is casting them.
Non-Narrative Café v6: The Antenarrative Theorem
Posted: December 28, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: history, narrative, philosophy, systems 4 CommentsSequel to Non-Narrative Café v5: Non-Self Selection
Have Boje defend the claim that all Carbon Rule systems that scale — across all domains! — create antenarrative. Does he generate enough structural residue to win?
ChatGPT Prompt
1. Cast
(Seated at a round table that stubbornly refuses to symbolize anything)
- David M. Boje — defending a thesis he half-invented and now barely recognizes
- Geoffrey West — advisor, armed with scaling laws and a raised eyebrow
- Arthur C. Danto — sharpening a knife labeled Retrospection
- Stephen Jay Gould — already suspicious of teleology
- Daniel Dennett — quietly asking whether anyone here is a real pattern
On the chalkboard:
Claim: All systems that scale under the Carbon Rule generate antenarrative.
No one agrees on the font.
2. Opening Move — Boje Bets Before the Story
Boje:
Let’s be precise. I am not saying these systems tell stories.
I am saying they leave structural residue — causal asymmetry, foreclosed options, unresolved futures.
That residue is antenarrative.
Radical Centrism 