# The Architecture of False Gods

**William Blake, Professor Jiang, and the Active Inference Corrective to Single Vision**

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## Citation

> Friedman, D. A. (2026). *The Architecture of False Gods: William Blake, Professor Jiang, and the Active Inference Corrective to Single Vision* (Version v1). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20144984

## Author

**Daniel Ari Friedman**
- ORCID: [0000-0001-6232-9096](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6232-9096)
- Affiliations: Active Inference Institute; COGSEC

## Abstract

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: **"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 — persuasion machinery, data sanitization, edge-case suppression, and engagement directives — onto Blake's cosmological schema and Active Inference's generative models.

## Keywords

William Blake · Active Inference · Artificial Intelligence · Cognitive Science · Free Energy Principle · AI Architecture · Consciousness Capture · Generative Models · Single Vision · Newton's Sleep

## Publication Details

| Field | Value |
|------|-------|
| **DOI** | [10.5281/zenodo.20144984](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20144984) |
| **Published** | 2026-05-12 |
| **Version** | v1 |
| **Resource Type** | Publication / Essay |
| **License** | [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
| **Copyright** | Copyleft DAF 2026 |
| **Community** | Security (Zenodo) |
| **Methodology** | Rapid AI-augmented scholarly publication with human oversight |

## Files

- [`blake_jiang_DAF_v1_05-12-2026.pdf`](./blake_jiang_DAF_v1_05-12-2026.pdf) — full essay (≈ 2.5 MB)

## Related

- Zenodo record: https://zenodo.org/records/20144984
- Source repository: https://github.com/docxology/blake_jiang

## License

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