On Artificial Intelligence, Noetic Experience, and Transhumanism🧵 Proponents of so-called artificial “intelligence” make the mistake of reducing intellect purely to logos without any notion of noetic knowing (Nous).

This notion limits all kind of knowing to the purely propositional with no room for participatory (experiential) knowledge.

The idea that something that when something is “symbolic” it only represents something real (rather than being real itself) is a very modern idea that is the exact opposite of how ancient people understood the world. 1/ In classic Platonic thought, symbols participate in the reality that they represent (as in make present again — re-present).

There was no separation between symbol and reality. Everything that existed, was a symbol 2/

Dragons 🐉 are more real than Dinosaurs 🦕

🧵 Human beings’ only experience with dinosaurs comes from modern archeology. Our collective human memory of dinosaurs is restricted to only the experience of finding their remains in archeological digs and our cinematic representations of what we imagine they are like.

Disney, Pixar, Dreamworks, etc didn’t just start trying to groom your children with movies like Turning Red.

They have been #Groomers for decades by using some of your most beloved movies/TV shows that you thought were wholesome.

Here’s how 🧵: Children’s media has been trying to subconsciously teach your children 2 things:

1. Monsters are sad misunderstood creatures that just need to be treated with love and compassion.

2. Monsters are actually safe and friendly and their monstrous side is just a defense mechanism.