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: "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.