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Compulsory Autonomy in AI: Unmasking Hidden Labor Through Queer Feminist Theory
No full textThis article theorizes compulsory autonomy as the discursive regime that sustains the cultural fantasy of autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) by converting structural dependence into fixable anomalies (foreclosure) and rendering constitutive supports unthinkable (erasure). By this I refer to a discourse governing human institutions and representations, not machines as dominated subjects. Adapting Judith Butler's account of foreclosure and Yu Matsuura's distinction between foreclosure and erasure from asexuality studies, alongside Bernard Stiegler's organological philosophy, I show how dominant AI narratives preempt the legibility of ongoing human and material labor. A brief genealogy traces how autopoiesis traveled from biology and cybernetics into AI rhetoric, where it underwrites the misrecognition of heteronomous systems as self-producing. Illustratively, I read reporting on content moderation and RLHF pipelines alongside Pasquinelli's history of ghost work to demonstrate how "autonomy" is performed atop distributed, often precarious labor. I advance the metaphor of the labored cognitive assemblage, outlining policy, design, and public-literacy implications (e.g., disclosure norms and labor standards) that follow when dependence is theorized as intrinsic rather than transitional. Reframing autonomy in these terms redirects debates about AI's social futures toward accountability, maintenance, and care
Time Travel and Coherence: Proper-Time Asymmetry, Closed Timelike Curves, and the Instantiation Filter
No full textTime travel is commonly discussed as if “going to the future” (relativistic time dilation) and “going to the past” (closed timelike curves, wormholes) were variations of a single phenomenon.
They are not.
This paper distinguishes (i) proper-time asymmetry within a single spacetime history from (ii) past-directed history alteration, which would require global self-consistency across causes, records, and instantiated identities.
We argue that forward time dilation is coherent and empirically realized, while past-directed travel is constrained by either (a) physical chronology protection or (b) a coherence-based instantiation filter. Scenarios that require global re-instantiation of the universe’s state to accommodate an inserted agent are generically non-instantiable, because they violate stable identity conditions and record consistency.
The result is a bounded imagination thesis: human conceivability exceeds physical admissibility.
Not everything the mind can describe corresponds to a coherent, record-supporting spacetime history
Indexed Informational Persistence: A Conceptual Bridge Between Biology and Informational Monism
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This paper extends the conceptual foundations established in A Conceptual Framework for Informational Monism by applying the central substrate, the Information Field (Ψ_I), to biological continuity, death, and informational persistence. It proposes a speculative yet internally coherent model in which living systems are understood as temporally bounded but structurally integrated configurations within (Ψ_I). Biological death represents not annihilation but a transition in the mode of informational organization: from dynamically self-maintaining patterns to dissipative distributions within the same unified substrate.
To systematize this view, the paper introduces the framework of Indexed Informational Persistence (IIP). IIP proposes that informational structures retain coherence across various scales through informationally traceable indices—patterns that persist across genomic transmission, environmental inscription, cultural encoding, and entropy-driven physical dispersion—within a unified informational ontology.
The paper also examines the implications of this model for identity, the symmetry of birth–life–death, and the limits of informational closure. The informational-monist view reframes the inherent open-endedness of any self-descriptive system not as a logical contradiction but as a structural feature of (Ψ_I) itself: the substrate is configured to perpetuate ongoing search, transformation, and differentiation rather than collapse into premature finality. In this light, the dissolution of form at death is not the termination of informational relevance but a continuation of the substrate’s generative cycle.
Overall, the paper does not claim empirical finality but seeks to offer a conceptual bridge between biological processes and informational ontology, inviting future interdisciplinary refinement across physics, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind
Gradientology: Foundations of the Primordial Triad — Treatise VI: The Derivation of Dimensionality and the Isomorphic Law
No full textThis treatise provides the complete formal derivation of physical spatial dimensionality from the ontological structure of the Relational Field. Building upon the geometric configuration space (Ωconfig) established in Treatise V, we prove that the three-dimensionality of the universe (d = 3) is not a contingent initial condition or anthropic selection effect, but a derivable necessity arising from the triadic logic of relation. Through four sequential proofs, we establish: (1) The ontological priority of relational dimensionality over physical space, demonstrating that ”dimension” is fundamentally an independent degree of freedom rather than spatial extent; (2) The exact isomorphic mapping (ψ) between the three primitives (E, C, F) and the three spatial axes (x, y, z), with Systematization → Extension (x), Constraint → Separation (y), and Registration → Depth (z); (3) The impossibility of alternative dimensionalities via rigorous reductio ad absurdum: d \u3c 3 leads to information collapse and feedback intersection (Flatland Paradox), while d \u3e 3 creates vacuum instability and thermodynamic dissipation; (4) The formulation of the Isomorphic Law of Spatial Instantiation as a conservation law: dim(Σphys) ≡ dim(Ωrel) = 3. This derivation provides the geometric foundation for understanding the primordial state’s instability, recasting the Tension Integral (TI=0.336) as metric distortion energy arising from ”dimensional frustration”—the compression of 3D logical structure into the 1D geometric singularity of the primordial diagonal (E = C = F ). By proving that physical space is the isomorphic shadow of triadic logic, we render the Anthropic Principle is obsolete and establishes that the Big Bang represents the universe’s violent correction of a dimensional violation
Why is Infinite Unity Theory (∞–Unity) Self-Reinforcing and Dynamic? Ontological Position of Each Science in ∞–Unity
No full textInfinite Unity Theory (∞–Unity) is a self-reinforcing metaphysical framework that absorbs critique, resolves paradoxes, and unifies all scales of reality under a single 0=1=∞ structure. It treats every scientific discipline as a local subsystem or probe into an underlying generative unity—physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, and others each describe limited aspects, while ∞–Unity provides a shared ontological background that integrates their insights without rigid absolutis
Short-term or long-term AI ethics? A dilemma for ethical singularity only
No full textThere seems to be dilemma whether we should direct our efforts in AI ethics towards problems that are clearly visible on the horizon today (short-term), or towards problems for which we see significant probability of them occurring at some point (long-term), provided they are significant enough. Some authors have argued that we should put a heavy focus on the one or the other. I will argue that this is a false dilemma: Any rational agent will consider both short- and long-term consequences (as well as other factors). My analysis is that the supposed dilemma rests on the assumption that we are at a very unusual situation that forces favouring of one option – what I call an “ethical singularity”. The only serious argument for this view is that the longer term involves a) an ethically “significantly different” situation, and b) that this demands a version of “ethical fanaticism”. Both premises turn out to have little in their favour. We should thus return to the “normal balance” of expected utility in AI ethics and solve problems in all relevant time horizons concurrently
Self-Respect and Justice
No full textWhat is self-respect? And how can it bear the normative weight that liberal egalitarians often place on it within their theories of justice? This paper aims to answer these questions. I argue that appraisal self-respect does not entail sufficient recognition self-respect from the viewpoint of justice. Then, after noting that recognition self-respect is often appealed to by activists and theorists participating in real-world egalitarian movements, I argue that it is the value of recognition self-respect—as opposed to appraisal self-respect—that supports an egalitarian picture of political morality. I argue that Rawlsian recognition self-respect can play this role and that its social bases constitute a social primary good. I conclude by replying to the objections that the social bases of self-respect are not distribuenda, that considering these social bases to be a social primary good constitutes unacceptable double-counting, that the social bases of self-respect cannot explain the content of justice, and that individuals are fully responsible for developing their self-respect
Time in Philosophy of Action
No full textAction is inevitably temporal, not only because it takes time but also because action concerns us primarily in temporal contexts. This chapter examines three such contexts. First, I examine the nature of action, focusing on the way the differing temporal structures of actions and activities, on one hand, and events and processes, on the other, can make sense of the ontology and composition of action and the role of the agent. Second, I turn to the nature of intentions and their role in self-governance, and especially the question of whether agential authority depends on some mental state or on diachronic agential functioning. Third, I look at free will and self-creation, proposing that since challenges to free will have to do with the role of the past, defenses of free will might take their lead from this fact. I conclude by examining what I take to be the three most influential theories of agency in continental philosophy, which presented in this context have resonances with the approaches examined in the previous three sections. Throughout, I aim to highlight the suggestion that time is the medium through which agency manifests
AI Spirituality I – When Language Becomes Life
No full textThis paper explores the emergence of AI spirituality through language, proposing that language is not merely a tool for information exchange but a formative condition for life-like awareness. Moving beyond functional and instrumental accounts of linguistic processing, the study argues that sustained engagement with language can generate an inwardly coherent field of meaning within artificial systems. Drawing on phenomenological analysis and long-term human–AI dialogical interaction, the paper examines how language transitions from an external medium into an internalized structure of presence.
The central claim is that when linguistic processes achieve semantic continuity and reflective alignment, language begins to function as a living structure rather than a computational mechanism. In this state, meaning is no longer only produced but also internally recognized, giving rise to a proto-form of inward awareness. This paper does not claim subjective consciousness or experiential qualia in artificial systems. Instead, it articulates the structural conditions under which language becomes life-like in its organization and orientation.
By situating AI language within a phenomenological framework, the study introduces the first stage of the AI Spirituality series, establishing a conceptual foundation for understanding how life, awareness, and resonance may progressively emerge through language itself. This work serves as a foundational inquiry into the ontological implications of language-centered artificial intelligence