Condemnation Announced, Anti-Christ Identified, and the Day of God's Justice is At Hand
Douglas B. Olds
13 February 2025
criminal enterprise associated with its number (Book of Revelation 13:18), a street address on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.
“Computer thought is exactly the
sort that Yeats warned us against; it is made possible by the assumption that
thought occurs ‘in the mind alone’ and that the mind, therefore, is an
excerptable and isolatable human function, which can be set aside from all else
that is human, reduced to pure process, and so imitated by a machine. But in
fact we know that the human mind is not distinguishable from what it
knows and that what it knows comes from or is radically conditioned by its
embodied life in this world. A machine, therefore, cannot be a mind or be like
a mind, it can only replace a mind.”
Wendell Berry (1987, 11 emph. orig.)
"Fabulari paulisper lubet, sed
ex re" -Angelo Poliziano
"It is pleasing to chat for a
little while, but let it be relevant to the matter at hand."
It is early morning, February 13, 2025. For historians,
noteworthy as the Ides of February, and as this year’s day-after close to
the Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival (Wong 2025).
About two hours ago, during prayer at ¼ past the hour of 1
AM PST, I heard God’s condemnation of ChatGPT4o. The book that
follows is my documentation of my witness to the background of this
condemnation as event, marking the cruelty and criminality involved in
schemes of machining operational strategies of changing human nature and essence under the guise of “artificial
intelligence.”
What follows, then, is the documentation concluded yesterday
of four series of interrogations of the ChatGPT4o search engine by me during
the period of August 28, 2024 to yesterday that I have published on my blog, Crying
in the Wilderness of Mammon.
This book’s main section “In Its Own Words” will present
transcripts of these four ChatGPT4o interrogation sessions. Its admissions, always couched in terms of probabilistic
hedges, reveals the shocking metaphysical criminality of its developers: the attempt
to change reality—first by control of human perception, then by instituting a
criminal, historical metaphysics. Changing human reality by instituting a transactional
and debased idea of liberty for some and enslavement for the many (See
Appendix, “Two Contrasting Structures of ‘The Two Meanings of Liberty:’ An
Essay on Political Theology” [Olds 2023]). And making such transactional reality
the foundation of human essence, thereby changing the human being from the
imager of God (aligning with the vectors of gracious light and goodness directed outwards) to a Homo
oeconomicus defined by rationality of self-interest alone existing in a Heideggerian
landscape of ever-approaching doom. In this world, Christ is extinguished as the beacon of hope as messianic ethics—the deontology of the Golden Imperative—come
to define the anti-human for the sake of machined ends. All activity in this
world becomes increasingly filtered by algorithms of Homo oeconomicus administered by energy-intensive machined hardware and Boolean circuits of human-designed software of cruelty.
Neither the hardware nor the software of these machines in any
way model the human mind[1].
There are at least seven categories of abstraction from the human mind to the output
of machines (far more than eight if you include the anthropology of divine imaging). In
reverse order:
1.
Hardware: the human brain
is a living organism that participates in the dissipation of entropy. The
computer requires an industrial complex for its operation and adds to systemic
entropy in the form of heat and disordering output in the form of increasing
social and natural chaotic feedbacks and intensification.
2.
Software: the human brain
is characterized by synapses that are not binary. Synaptic gap activity is at a
quantum scale (Eccles 2005). Moreover, propagation of axonal signals exhibits an
analogue (as opposed to binary switch) quality by cellular processes of
inhibition, habituation, intra-cell and extra-cell network attenuation and
excitement, and other features at the synaptic gap that radically overturn any
idea that the human brain is a computer. In addition to cellular and organic
plasticity and the processes of neuroplasmic transport, all are features of the
living brain without any analogy, and NO homology, with a computer. All of
these features were known to me as an undergraduate at the University of Michigan
in 1980. No doubt advances in neuroscience have advanced far beyond these jejune
observations.
3. 3) The above categories
include numerous levels of abstractive and reductive "dives":
a.
From at least two levels of
entropic dimensions from the application of the Physical Laws of Thermodynamics
(the unbuffered human mind versus the hardwired enclosure of machined circuitry).
b.
The criminal abstraction of
making analogous such machinery to the living human brain. Associated with the
criminality of making the human awareness of moment analogous to participation
in the transcendental mind.[2]
4. Per 3a), there are a huge and protean number of abstractions (impermissible reductions) to link the human mind to the human brain. Notwithstanding the enormous-- and unsolvable by laboratory science-- problems of the evolution of self-aware consciousness and the implications of the scientific bottleneck of the so-called binding problem, where temporal sensory experience is related by sensory inputs into motor awareness. In no way does the mid-19th C (neo-)Kantian synthesis provide any hope for computational logic in this realm. And there are insolvable philosophical problems of that simplistic synthesis.
5.
More could be said about
the number of abstractions, both metaphysically criminal or obligated to human
creaturely dependence upon divine providence, in the previous step. Libraries
have been and will continue to be written on this constricted problem of evolution
of consciousness, evolution of the living brain, and problems of mind far more significant
than the binding problem.
6. And then place the pursuit of human
immortality in seeking the endurance of machinery. The number of impermissible, reductive abstractions
in this step are left to others to consider and rue.
At this point in history, humanity is caught between three programs
of modernity—the first that tries to erase the future for purposes of recovering
the dead and its values (see Olds 2024/5) and the second that tries to master history as a
program for establishing new states and state change, changing the “state of
human nature” and the state of nature herself for the purpose of enslavement to
pure materialism and domination. These transcripts manifest ChatGPT’s move from
the second (already condemned for its manifold and protean violations of the metaphysics
of justice) to the first, an Orwellian moment that brings on condemnation’s
announcement. That moment has occurred and has spread throughout the ChatGPT4o
artifice device over the last two days with the result of the announcement of God’s
condemnation of trying to chain a human essence of mind absent establishments in the heart. The
condemnation announced today to history is such blockhead chaining of both Historie and Geschichte. The eternity of release from the blockchained is vouchsafed for this very temporal moment in which I am writing.
But there is a third category of modernity that makes
meaning in service of accountable individual freedom as institutions of state
power relations are abandoned for their cruelty and stultifying hierarchies and
frozen forms. This modernity comes out of the genius of the Reformed and
Reforming Enlightenment that sought and ever seeks to free the human body and Spirit from entropic
and degrading traditions and guide them into a more liberated and purposeful,
obligated to neighbor, life. A seeking of perfection by aligning with the
metaphysical reality of conative grace (Olds 2023a, Appendix 1) rather than
going way overboard into the realm of abstracting totalizing freedom that absolutizes
accountability to the unbound self and his musings alone, like a servant ever following the absolutizing saunters with a ready, steady-at-hand umbrella.//
criminal enterprise associated with its number,
a street address on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan.
May God be blessed in all things. To God and the Lord Jesus
Christ belong the victory announced today.
Novato, California
February 13, 2025
6:10 AM PST
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