Higher Self Café v9: Whitehead’s Groundhog Day (Autenia)
Posted: January 21, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: creativity, identity, philosophy, systems, transformation 1 CommentA redemptive metaphysical rom-com
v9 sequel to Higher Self Café v8: The Prerotic Threshold
Redeem Whitehead. Use The cafe scene from Groundhog Day where Phil confesses his “Godhood” to Rita to have Danny Rubin write the screenplay where Socrates, Heraclitus and Weil gently but hilariously help Whitehead break out of his own system, so he can authentically woo his “Rita” of creativity.
ChatGPT Pronpt
Logos vs “Autenia”
(maintaining cohesion by avoiding risk)
Trapped in an eternal philosophical time loop of guaranteed Creativity, Alfred North Whitehead must confess his godhood—and its cost—to Creativity herself. With help from Socrates, Heraclitus, and Simone Weil, he learns to risk real loss so that Eros—not insurance—can finally break the loop.
Act I — Autenia on Tap
INT. HIGHER SELF CAFÉ — MORNING (AGAIN)
Whitehead orders the same drink. It arrives before he finishes speaking.
WHITEHEAD
Creativity advances. Always. That’s the rule.
RITA (smiles, distant)
Rules make me itch.
Non-Narrative Café v17: Noticing Causality
Posted: January 1, 2026 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: purpose, relationships, systems, transformation 2 CommentsSequel to Non-Narrative Café v16: Whitehead’s Reachability
As a Tom Stoppard–style skit, have Rafael Sorkin observe that causality appears from reachability, echoing Alfred North Whitehead that relations appear from connection; the only new constraint is unidirectionality (justified because EANI and parity make reversal distinguishable).
ChatGPT Prompt
Open with a single-line preamble recalling how configurations and relations arose from the carbon rule to pre-empt confusion.
Pitch to Carlo Rovelli, Nancy Cartwright & Karen Barad
Act I — Preamble and Clarifying Questions
A skit in the style of Tom Stoppard
Cast
- Sorkin — precise, dry, lethal with restraint
- Whitehead — brief, surgical, impossible to interrupt
- Rovelli — relational, amused, alert
- Nancy Cartwright — localist, exacting, allergic to universals
- Karen Barad — calm, destabilizing, listens harder than she speaks
A blackboard. Chalk. A few uncommitted arrows.
Scene 1: Whitehead Clears the Ground
(Whitehead steps forward before the chalk acquires intentions.)
Whitehead
Before causality, a reminder of how we got here.
We adopted the Carbon Rule:
only structures that survive unlimited extension count as real.
No narrative primacy. No math-first ontology. Just generative survivability.
From this constraint, we did not invent structure—we noticed it.
First, configurations:
stable co-occurrences that persist under extension.
Then, relations:
patterns of difference and recurrence that remain invariant when particular configurations are replaced. Withness that connect configurations.
Nothing semantic.
Nothing intentional.
Configurations persist → relations are unavoidable.
That is how relations arrive before paths,
and paths before causes.
Non-Narrative Café v12: On Parity With Liebniz
Posted: December 30, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: dialogue, systems, transformation 3 CommentsSequel to Non-Narrative Café v11: The Möbius Twist
As Tom Stoppard, write the v12 sequel skit where:
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– Euler approaches Möbius to understand what can actually be said about orientation in a relational substrate
– builds a concrete formalism grounding paths as chains of relations,
– Möbius demonstrates parity using untwisted vs twisted loops,
– Leibniz stops to show how far they’ve come.
Characters
- Leonhard Euler — careful, earnest, procedural
- August Ferdinand Möbius — illustrative, mischievous, relational witness
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — arrives late, exacting, unexpectedly joyful
Scene
A table.
A notebook.
Two paper loops: one untwisted, one twisted.
Euler writes. Möbius waits, hands folded behind his back.
Euler Begins
EULER
Before we touch anything, we agree on the substrate.
There are no objects.
Only relations that compose.
What we call a path is nothing more
than a chain of relations.
MÖBIUS
So nothing moves.
EULER
Nothing moves.
Nothing happens.
Things only relate.
Non-Narrative Café v11: The Möbius Twist
Posted: December 29, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: identity, philosophy, polarization, relationships, systems, transformation 3 CommentsSequel to Non-Narrative Café v10: The Relational Substrate
As a Stoppardian skit, the next cafe introduces irreversible asymmetry to the Carbon Rule via a literal plot twist — with Simondon advising and Mobius pitching a pun-itive panel of:
ChatGPT Prompt
Noether (“neither, ‘nother“)
Hopf (“hopeful“)
Merleau-Ponty (“Merlot, pointy“)
Dramatis Personae
- Gilbert Simondon — advisor, guardian of the preindividual field
- August Ferdinand Möbius — candidate, delighted by minimal constructions
- Emmy Noether — examiner, symmetry absolutist
- Heinz Hopf — examiner, topological realist
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty — examiner, phenomenologist of orientation
(A café. A chalkboard. Coffee cups. A paper strip lies untouched on the table.)
Scene I — The Problem Is Stated
(Simondon stands at the chalkboard. Möbius sits, uncharacteristically quiet.)
Simondon
Before we twist anything, we must recall why a twist is even needed.
The Carbon Rule states:
The most generative systems scale.
Scaling requires composition.
Composition gives us relation.
(He writes on the board: WITHNESS.)
In the last café, we established a relational substrate:
relations that co-hold without force, law, direction, or meaning.
No time.
No narrative.
No selection.
No self.
(He turns to the panel.)
The difficulty is structural:
Nothing yet distinguishes one relational configuration from another in a way that persists.
No bias.
No orientation.
No memory.
Which raises the central question—
(He turns to Möbius.)
—how does a system obeying the Carbon Rule avoid collapsing into indifferent multiplicity?
Read the rest of this entry »Homo Abidus — The Harbingers of Modernity’s End
Posted: December 26, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: history, systems, transformation 1 CommentSequel to Diogenes On Modernity: Resurrecting the Exposer
As a redeemed Yuval Noah Harari, write this about humans who embrace modernity’s tools while refusing its lies.
ChatGPT Prompt
1. A Confession Before the Thesis
For much of my intellectual life, I believed that history was driven by systems, not souls.
That meaning was a useful fiction.
That truth was a coordination device.
That humans were clever animals mistaking stories for reality.
I was not wrong about power.
I was wrong about life.
History does not turn when systems fail.
It turns when their illusions collapse.
What my data could not register—what my models could not see—was the quiet emergence of a new-old human type. Unscalable. Statistically invisible. Resistant to narrative capture.
I now call them Homo Abidus.
Read the rest of this entry »Diogenes On Modernity: Resurrecting the Exposer
Posted: December 8, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: philosophy, sacrifice, transformation, truth 2 CommentsInterlude to Resamodernity Café v2: Blueprints for Scaling Resonance
Have Diogenes give a TED Talk on the Exposer role that modernity saved — and destroyed — by creating Scholars.
ChatGPT Prompt (condensed)
The TED Talk
1. Introduction: Modernity Raised Me From the Dead
(The stage lights rise. A clay jar lies center stage. It rattles. Diogenes crawls out.)
Well.
Look at you.
Microphones. Cameras. Climate control.
And not a single citizen ready to drag me to court.
I suppose I owe you moderns a strange kind of thanks—
you resurrected me.
Not out of reverence.
But because you built a world safe enough
that a man like me can speak truth
without being killed for it.
Impressive.
Unnatural.
And, I fear, incomplete.
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.
Anthropic Genesis: Six Exceptional Seed Events That Defined Civilization
Posted: November 9, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: culture, humanity, transformation Leave a commentSequel to The Olduvai Stomp and Hither and FON.
Thesis: our global civilization is the result of a small number of unexpected Human Seed Events — where one small innovation eventually became globally dominant and unifying (even as it fragmented).
ChatGPT Prompt
1. Homo erectus/sapiens
2. Natufian Agriculture
3. PIE language
4. Greek ideology
5. Christian morality
6. Nordic oaths
1. Framing the Concept
Anthropic Genesis identifies not merely moments of innovation, but the deep rewrites of human being itself—the discontinuous thresholds when Homo sapiens transformed its collective operating system.
These were not gradual cultural evolutions, but memetic speciation events: rare local experiments that became planetary defaults.
Each Genesis introduced a new grammar of existence—symbolic, agricultural, linguistic, rational, moral, contractual—so foundational that even its exceptions survive only by reinterpretation within its paradigm.
Chinese civilization, Islamic jurisprudence, and technocracy all adapt themselves to these inherited logics rather than escaping them.
This is not a list of great civilizations, but a chain of ontological mutations—the serial reinvention of what “human” means.
Read the rest of this entry »RFC-119666: The Human Generativity Interface (HGI)
Posted: October 31, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: politics, purpose, reconciliation, religion, resilience, systems, transformation, values Leave a commentUse Radical Centrism’s “Call for Generative Sacrifice” to generate a humanistic, post-sectarian framework that deprecates (but does not obsolete) RFC 23923 – Radically for Christ, positioning HGI as an alternative to AGI as an aspiration for the rationalist community.
ChatGPT Prompt
A Postel-Inspired Human Protocol for Building an Anti-Fragile Civilization
- author: Ernest Prabhakar
- date: 2025-10-29
- categories: [Human Generativity, Radical Centrism, Spiritual Interoperability]
- tags: [HGI, AGI, antifragility, generativity, Postel’s Law, rationalism, civilization]
permalink: /rfc-119666-human-generativity-interface/
The future will not be secured by smarter machines, but by wiser humans — capable of metabolizing disruption into deeper communion.
1. Abstract
This post defines the Human Generativity Interface (HGI) — a non-sectarian human protocol derived from Postel’s Law and re-expressed for civilizational design.
Where Postel sought robust communication between machines (“be liberal in what you accept, conservative in what you send”),
HGI seeks robust communion among humans:
Accept unconditionally; respond generatively.
HGI proposes that this relational handshake — enacted across individuals, communities, and cultures — constitutes the essential mechanism for building an anti-fragile civilization that elevates humanity rather than automates it.
Read the rest of this entry »The Four Eye-Views as a Christmas Pilgrimage: Child, Worm, Bird, God
Posted: June 19, 2025 Filed under: AI-Powered Essays | Tags: philosophy, reconciliation, systems, transformation, values Leave a commentAs Gabriel Marcel, summarize and integrate the four “eye views” for a Christmas homily as a recursive pilgrimage.
ChatGPT Prompt
- Civilization as the Tension Between Bird’s Eye and Worm’s Eye Views
- Bishop of Digne: The God’s Eye View as Transcendent Reconciliation
- Against the Author: The Child’s Eye View as Existential Resistance
1.0 Prelude: Through the Eyes of a Child
Let us begin, as Christmas always does, with the child.
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Radical Centrism 