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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "into his brain uh uh okay so first of all the vine comedy it's a pure act of imagination right he didn't actually go..."
Jiang says The Divine Comedy is a pure act of imagination rather than a literal report of a trip to heaven, and that the pilgrim is designed to let each reader undertake his own subjective journey.
He says Kant's model creates three problems: what the noumenon is, why humans have time-space filters, and why subjective perceivers still share a common world.
He says subjective questions like the best ice cream cannot be turned into AI problems because they lack clean, objective data.
"into his brain uh uh okay so first of all the vine comedy it's a pure act of imagination right he didn't actually go..."
"We never know this reality. Why? Because whenever we see reality, we filter it using time and space, okay? So time and space, do..."
"need to solve then is data okay for input but the thing about data is that it has to be cleaner than the score..."
The seminar begins with line-by-line questions and expands into a larger claim: Dante matters because poetry trains imagination, vows turn hope into action, and faith, hope, and love stop meaning obedience and start meaning...
A source-grounded reading of Jiang's attack on the scientific worldview: Big Bang, evolution, neuroscience, school, and transhumanism become parts of one material story that forgets divinity, fears death, and lets power reinvent reality.
The final class turns collapse into an assignment: build a democratic psychohistory that can model war, correct history, answer great-man edge cases, and still preserve the human heart that wants to love, create, learn,...
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