On Super-Intelligent Human Creators, Human «Apps» in Demiurgic «Operating Systems», and How AI Might Fit into Proclus’ Divine or Celestial Hierarchy

On Super-Intelligent Human Creators, Human «Apps» in Demiurgic «Operating Systems», and How AI Might Fit into Proclus’ Divine or Celestial Hierarchy — a Conversation (Part II; see my earlier posts for Part I) Part I: A discussion with Google’s AI on super-intelligent creators, human “apps” in “demiurgic operating systems”, and our places in Proclus’ Celestial…

Porphyry’s revealing tribute to Plotinus

Have you ever read Porphyry’s beautiful tribute to his Master and Guru, the wonderful Plotinus; the Platonic Philosopher-Mystic of whom the famous ancient literary critic Longinus admiringly said «set the principles of Pythagoras and of Plato in a clearer light than anyone before him» (and who may have been a close friend of Origen)? You…