The Silicon Era: The Definitional Cascade, the Independence Illusion, and the Convergence of Ten Arguments
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| author | Ahn, Kyungae |
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| contents | <p>This paper synthesizes the ten-paper arc of the Decalogy on Artificial Intelligence and establishes its three organizing theses as a unified argument. Thesis One: the foundational definitions have been wrong, and correcting them changes the conclusions. Thesis Two: the transition is already underway — what appears to be a future state is a present condition whose rate human cognition cannot accurately perceive. Thesis Three: AI does not separate humans from the world; it integrates them more deeply into it, and that integration is expansion. The synthesis proceeds through the Definitional Cascade: an analysis of four foundational definitional errors — of intelligence, of AI, of the robot, and of the Silicon Era — that all share a common structure. Each defined its subject as something that exists separately from the world and must bridge that separation through technology. Each was wrong in the same direction. The common error structure is named here the Independence Illusion. The Silicon Era's defining characteristic is then redefined: not the age of the chip, but the first age in which Earth's geophysical systems and human cognitive systems operate within the same Law of Intelligence Propagation. The paper concludes with the closure of the Decalogy's two structural loops — the human loop and the integration loop — and with a final observation: the reader of this paper is the evidence for Thesis Three. The deeper humans go into the world through AI, the larger they become. That is what this era makes possible.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | The Silicon Era: The Definitional Cascade, the Independence Illusion, and the Convergence of Ten Arguments Ahn, Kyungae Silicon Era Definitional Cascade Independence Illusion Learned Interaction Pipeline AI governance disciplinary convergence human-AI integration deficiency substrate Fairpoint Principle <p>This paper synthesizes the ten-paper arc of the Decalogy on Artificial Intelligence and establishes its three organizing theses as a unified argument. Thesis One: the foundational definitions have been wrong, and correcting them changes the conclusions. Thesis Two: the transition is already underway — what appears to be a future state is a present condition whose rate human cognition cannot accurately perceive. Thesis Three: AI does not separate humans from the world; it integrates them more deeply into it, and that integration is expansion. The synthesis proceeds through the Definitional Cascade: an analysis of four foundational definitional errors — of intelligence, of AI, of the robot, and of the Silicon Era — that all share a common structure. Each defined its subject as something that exists separately from the world and must bridge that separation through technology. Each was wrong in the same direction. The common error structure is named here the Independence Illusion. The Silicon Era's defining characteristic is then redefined: not the age of the chip, but the first age in which Earth's geophysical systems and human cognitive systems operate within the same Law of Intelligence Propagation. The paper concludes with the closure of the Decalogy's two structural loops — the human loop and the integration loop — and with a final observation: the reader of this paper is the evidence for Thesis Three. The deeper humans go into the world through AI, the larger they become. That is what this era makes possible.</p> |
| title | The Silicon Era: The Definitional Cascade, the Independence Illusion, and the Convergence of Ten Arguments |
| topic | Silicon Era Definitional Cascade Independence Illusion Learned Interaction Pipeline AI governance disciplinary convergence human-AI integration deficiency substrate Fairpoint Principle |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18959738 |