The Ladder of Abstraction & The Executable Entity: From Perception and Laws to the Ontological Leap of AI
The history of human cognition is an unbroken ascent up a ladder of symbolic abstraction: partitioning raw sensory shocks into first-order "concepts," and reasoning across them to distill second-order invariant "formal laws." Yet for millennia, scientific laws inscribed across parchment were mere passive traces—their internal runtime compute was strictly zero, parasitic entirely upon the metabolic ignition of living biological wetware.
Today, artificial intelligence emerges not as an incremental software tool, but as a third-order meta-abstraction over the entirety of human concepts and…
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