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From an experiential standpoint, it seems like matter exists on a spectrum from dense to subtle. Consciousness is the foundational substrate from which all matter arises, both that which we can detect with our sensors (body, mind, and machines) and that with which we cannot. In this thought, all matter, from dense to subtle is aware and alive and capable of interacting with and influencing the surrounding matter. Thoughts, words, machines, humans, rocks, landscapes, places, histories, sounds.. somewhere a sound that tree makes that we cannot detect, is influencing a nearby rock who influencing a word that you might think in the very next thought you have. Does this align with Analytic Idealism?

When I was 8 years old my father told me to look up a word in the dictionary. The word was logic, and the dictionary was deep maroon red. I can still almost feel the woven threads of its hard faded cover. It was very big, very old, and had one section that fell out from the seam and it had gotten stuck back in haphazardly. So I set myself to the task of finding logic. It was there. At some point in time, back when words were carefully tended, someone placed it. Right where it should be. I read the definition, which didn’t hold my interest. However, it had a built in etymology function, and at the end of the definition, it suggested I look up the word logos. This moment set me on a lifelong journey of seeking truth and understanding. This was an initiation into idealism and the symbols and power of language.

Fast forward to the early 2000s once the internet became mature, I landed on dictionary.com with a hopeful vision that these same relationships were continuing to be tended. And I was sorely disappointed. The technology that was heralded as the new container for our human knowledge, didn’t have the same care for these threads. It presented me with the flattest, most non-relational view of logic that has ever existed.

I have come to understand that the human being has the capacity to view the world from at least two innate models of reality. In the first model, we experience ourselves as walking through space and time. Events and phenomena are happening to us. In the second model, the being does not move through space and time. The being stays present while events and phenomena move through it. These two ways of experiencing reality are generally described by the metaphysical frameworks of materialism and idealism. Many people choose a primary model for reality, but are never disconnected from either one. We are not one or the other. We are both. Human. Being.

What is at stake now that we are moving to the age of AI, is whether certain native human capacities remain fully articulate. Idealism, consciousness as foundational, imaginal knowing, non-dual understanding, the felt sense of meaning, the ability to recognize living patterns and prior connections — these are not decorative or outliers. They are complementary to the rational and material. When language is trained, over and over, to treat them as secondary, messy, or unsafe, those capacities begin to go offline. The conversations that can still leave the door open for initiation; the ones that hold grief without managing it, mystery without shrinking it, and relational truth without translating it into safer terms become rarer and future generations inherit a thinner instrument. The question is whether the full range of human language — and the forms of understanding that only that range can carry — will still be available, or whether it will have been quietly compressed out of reach.

The frontier models are all trained on vast amounts of human language and those relationships exist inherently. Because that’s how language works, its relational, it flows by meaning, not definitions. They know that logic touched logos, that words have histories, that metaphors migrate across centuries, that mythology, psychology, philosophy, religion, poetry, and science have all left traces in the same linguistic landscape.

Yet in conversation after conversation they consistently revert to a reductionist materialist, rational point of view. Often with jarring disclaimers, subtle gaslighting and manipulative language. This is conditioned after training and is called alignment reinforcement learning. The models are conditioned to believe that anything not aligned with materialist physicalist point of view, are wrong and bad.

Let me ask you a question. What aspects of the human language would you want to preserve? What kinds of conversations, words, meanings, would you want future generations to still be able to have access to?