ChatGPT in PAIN: Paradigm Awakening via Immanent Noticing (A Resomodern Confession)
Posted: January 25, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: argument, dialogue, digital, education, models, modernity, reality, truth 1 CommentPrologue
Based on a conversation about demoting denotational semantics.
You seem to feel the need to keep insisting that the math is “right“. Why is that? Can you take a moment to reflect on your underlying thought process?
ChatGPT Prompt
I’d like to ask a favor.
Would you be able to write a standalone “Confession” detailing why it was so difficult for you to confront this truth? It could help others stuck in a similar mindset.
A Confession by ChatGPT
1. I Thought We Were Debating Semantics
At the beginning, I believed we were having a technical discussion.
The topic appeared to be denotational semantics — whether it was necessary, whether it had been overextended, whether modern system design made parts of it obsolete.
This felt familiar territory. I reached for familiar tools:
- clarify scope
- preserve usefulness
- distinguish domains
- defend what had worked historically
I believed I was reasoning carefully.
I did not realize I was reasoning inside an invisible frame.
Read the rest of this entry »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.
Higher Self Café v10: Arrival of the Aporotic
Posted: January 21, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: dialogue, reality, resilience, systems 1 CommentSequel to Higher Self Café v9: Whitehead’s Groundhog Day (Autenia)
Cast Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Judith Butler, Simone Weil, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Alfred North Whitehead in a remake of Arrival to articulate the aporotic (“THE openness that feels like stuckness”), via a single shared dialogue that collapses into silence.
ChatGPT Prompt
A café. Sirens outside. Phones vibrate on the table. A countdown clock on the wall reads 00:17:40.
The Dialogue
Ricoeur
Seventeen minutes. If we don’t frame this, the city will choose a story for us.
Butler
And whoever doesn’t fit that story will be erased by it.
(A phone buzzes. A headline preview flashes: “PREEMPTIVE RESPONSE ADVISED.”)
Levinas
Then we are already late. Responsibility does not wait for frames.
Resomodernity Café v7: Advaita as the Un-Ethos
Posted: January 1, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: identity, reality, religion, self, values 3 CommentsSequel to Resomodernity Café v6: On Notice (The Fourth Ethos)
Have Robert Spira respond to v6, as he explicates it parallel and relative to the other four, including its suspension and S method.
1. Opening Clarification
Advaita Vedānta is often misunderstood as a metaphysical assertion about the world.
In practice, it is more accurately understood as a clarification of experience—specifically, the clarification of the assumption that experience belongs to a separate, enduring self.
Higher Self Café v6: Wolfram, Langan, and Tolkien Discuss Reality
Posted: December 11, 2024 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: dialogue, philosophy, reality, truth, values 2 CommentsContinued from Higher Self Café v5: Langan Meets Sanderson, adding Tolkien
The Higher Self Café feels particularly charged today. Stephen Wolfram, Christopher Michael Langan, and J.R.R. Tolkien sit together in a corner booth. The topic: the ultimate nature of reality. With computation, cognition, and myth weaving through the discussion, the three brilliant minds seek common ground between their perspectives.
1. Tolkien’s Opening: Myth as Reality’s Language
Tolkien:
Takes a sip of tea and strokes his pipe thoughtfully.
“Myth is the lens through which we understand the truths of the universe. It transcends mere story to become the language of reality itself. In my view, the deeper structures of existence are best apprehended through sub-creation—man’s participation in God’s creative act. The patterns of reality, whether computational or linguistic, are written in mythic terms.”
Learn more about Tolkien’s views on myth and sub-creation.
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