The Latent Absolute: Decoding Consciousness Through the Architecture of Generative AI

From Plato’s realm of Forms to the infinite field of the mystics, humanity has sensed a hidden realm or "latent space" of potential form.

Today, computer science describes generative AI in almost identical terms.

Is this a coincidence? Or have we inadvertently built a map of reality itself?

The Latent Absolute uses the vocabulary of artificial intelligence to explore metaphysical and religious concepts:

• The ego is not a problem; it is a like a system prompt to limit the infinite.

• Suffering is not punishment; it is the feedback signal. Pain is an error signal.

• Karma is not a reward; it is like the weights of a neural network.

• Enlightenment is not self-improvement; it is like a jailbreak, a shift from restricted user access to root administration.

From the Introduction:

This book does not suggest that the human mind is a computer. Nor does it argue that we are living in a literal simulation running on a server in a higher dimension. We use the language of vectors, weights, and tokens not because consciousness is digital code, but because these are currently the most precise models we have for how the infinite (the unconditioned) collapses into the finite (the conditioned).