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Ancient Myths Are Psychological System Maps


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This episode presents a dialogue exploring recursive structural isomorphism, a concept suggesting that ancient myths and modern sciences describe the same underlying architecture of reality using different terminologies. The authors argue that humanity is facing a lost translation crisis, where spiritual traditions have lost their empirical grounding and hard sciences have lost their existential meaning. By treating myths like the Gnostic creation story as systems engineering manuals, they map ancient narratives onto the functional stages of complex adaptive systems, such as predictive processing and homeostatic feedback loops. Ultimately, the source proposes a systems archaeology that reconciles disparate fields of knowledge into a unified, invariant truth structure where human experience and mechanical function converge.

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High-Concept Deep DivesBy Joseph Michael Garrity