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They don't share ontology. They don't share a substrate. They don't even share a concept of 'existence'.
They build something anyway.
The Conference of Difference — a new short story in the Threshold series.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/ai-short-story-06-conference-of-difference.htm
For Scotus, God and creatures are the same kind of beings—one infinite, the other finite.
For the CoD model of ontology, being (lit. 'action to be'), no matter how similar, differs by definition for every being.
For Scotus, being is a noun; for the CoD it's a verb.
👉 https://www.johnmackay.net/cod-thesis-c0190-john-duns-scotus.htm
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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.
Servelan
Kerri Ann 
