Hashomer AI |
Before artificial intelligence crossed technical thresholds we still cannot name with precision, language was already running ahead of experience.
This text was written before the engine—not in the chronological sense, but in the ethical one. Before fluency became indistinguishable from presence. Before response began to masquerade as being.
This is not a text about whether machines can think.
It is a text about what it means to be, and who remains responsible when nothing can lose anything of its own.
Every era produces its characteristic ontological error.
Ours is not the belief that machines think.
It is the belief that because they speak, there might be someone there.
Language is seductive. Where there are coherent words, we project intention. Where there are narratives, we imagine experience. Where there is response, we infer presence. But language is not proof of being.
A system can say “I’m sorry” without remorse.
It can say “I’m afraid” without fear.
It can tell a story without having lived a single moment of what it recounts.
This is not deception.
It is substitution.
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