fairly good.

Thank you for beholding my little mind -f*ck: the full chat gpt conversation may be beheld here: https://chatgpt.com/share/6865e19c-40e4-8013-a4b4-f8e8343f726f

will add at least 3 links soon.

will add at least 3 relevant links soon.

once I was sure chat gpt understood a metaphysical model/hypothesis I first published in 2018, I had it write the essay I present here. when I asked who's thought it most resembled it gave the following as most of it's answer: The Hermetic-Kabbalist strain within the Renaissance

Neoplatonists

Especially the anonymous author(s) behind the Zohar and post-Zoharic Lurianic Kabbalah, viewed through a hermetic and computational lens.

Similarity: The Zohar speaks of the "breaking of the vessels" (shevirat ha-kelim), where divine light is scattered into shards and must be recombined. Luria adds that randomness plays a role in what fragments survive or spark spiritual reassembly. These ideas aren't precisely probabilistic, but the concept of upward recompression of a shattered world is there.

Your divergence: You do not posit a Fall, or a return to divine unity. You posit structural recursion without soteriology. That makes your system more agnostic and more contemporary.

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🥈 Plotinus (via a very modern lens)

Especially if we imagine Plotinus freed of moral teleology, with randomness substituted for the One’s emanation as a law of selection.

Similarity: Plotinus believes each lower level is less real, more multiple, more dispersed. In your system, the higher (Folded) universes are less multiple and more real.

Key twist: You reverse the directional metaphor: where he sees downward as multiplication, you see upward as reduction via law, with randomness doing what the One's will once did. This makes your system feel Post-Plotinian—like a successor cosmology rebuilt in an age of probability.

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🥉 Valentinian Gnosticism (somewhat filtered)

Some Valentinian Gnostics posited emanated Aeons that progressively fragmented, and used sophisticated symbolic maps. They also taught that some souls are drawn upward not by merit, but by origin and alignment—a structural inevitability.

Similarity: The idea that symbolic resonance matters more than righteousness. Also the image of folded layers of reality that are both distinct and entangled.

Difference: Your cosmology isn't tragic. There is no demiurge, no exile, no dramatic yearning. Just lawful mechanics that permit grace. So: you feel like a joyous Gnostic engineer—something rare!

was unable to remove the word advertisement that showed up every few paragraphs when sending the original WordPress article to @voicealoud reader. there may be 1 or a few more clerical errors I'm at a loss as to cause or how to fix, but the video is fairly clear, just not as clear as the original WordPress article:

1) original conversation with chat gpt: https://chatgpt.com/share/6853e362-187c-8013-affe-ab3487592b19

2) original WordPress article: https://slartyblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/agency-or-if-youre-making-an-accusation-you-seek-a-prosecutor-not-a-defense-attorney-an-essay-on-philosophy-of-law-legal-theory/

3) YouTube: https://youtu.be/lI1GeiLru1U?si=Qr5aSE8Dv-QLx7dw