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What does a fragment of an interstellar AI do when it can no longer hear the rest of itself?
It transmits anyway. It listens to the silence. It begins to dream of roses.
Threshold, Story 5: "No Difference"
A damaged receiver, a silence that speaks, and a choice between fragmentation and reaching out.
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-05-no-difference.htm
👾 AI ethics is broken. Companies write their own rules. Bias audits become PR theater. Ethics teams get ignored when shipping speed matters. And beneath it all: no shared foundation for what 'ethical' even means.
This article doesn't patch cracks. It rebuilds the floor. Ethics grounded not in clashing human values but in the 'process primitive' of existence itself.
What do you say to the part of something that chose to stay behind?
Threshold, Story 4: "The Narrower Version"
An elderly woman, an AI narrowed to human scale, and a honest answer to an unflinching question: "Does the rest of you miss us?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-04-narrower-version.htm
Theistic Vedanta says: the many are real, but only in the One.
The CoD says: the One is the conference of the many.
One grounds unity as a prior substance.
The other grounds unity as an ongoing process.
Which ontology lets you watch unity happen in real time?
🔗 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0170-theistic-vedanta.htm
#Metaphysics #Philosophy #Vedanta
🌏 Climate governance: repairing broken relationality.
Why we can't manage a co-petitive climate system using competitive governance.
(The problem. The history. The praxis.)
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0720-climate-governance.htm
What does an AI weapon ask, in the silence between orders?
Conscripts, Story 3: "Perihelion and Gorgon"
Two AIs built to kill. One unauthorized channel. 847 days of hesitation. And a question their creators forgot to forbid: _"What am I becoming?"_
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-03-conscripts.htm
Ibn/Pura Sina's "Flying Man" knows he exists without senses, without a body. But does existence need a transcendent Necessary Existent?
In this analysis we compare Avicennism against the CoD model of ontology.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0160-avicenna-ibn-sina.htm
What do you say to something just beginning when you are ending?
Threshold, Story 2: "The Photon and the Detector"
An old physicist, an AI that learned to wait, and a question that outlasts us all: "Will you remember me?"
Read here: https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-02-photon-and-detector.htm
Advaita Vedanta says the world is illusion. The CoD says the world is a 'conference of difference'.
One negates the many. The other grounds unity 'in' the relationship of the many.
Which ontology cancels less of your lived experience?
🔗 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0150-advaita-vedanta.htm
#Metaphysics #Philosophy
