The Architecture of False Gods: William Blake, Professor Jiang, and the Active Inference Corrective to Single Vision

This rapid-publication essay synthesizes three intellectual frameworks examining cognitive closure. The author analyzes Professor Jiang Xueqin's commentary on artificial intelligence through William Blake's late-18th-century perceptual analysis and Active Inference terminology. The core convergence identified is closure of the perceiving system around its own top-down expectations, which Blake termed Newton's Sleep, Jiang calls consciousness capture, and Active Inference designates as pathological prior dominance. The work maps Jiang's concepts, including persuasion machinery, data sanitization, edge-case suppression, and engagement directives, onto Blake's cosmological schema and Active Inference's generative models.

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