Art & Synergetics · Paper · 2026

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

Daniel Ari Friedman

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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...

William BlakeActive InferenceArtificial IntelligenceCognitive ScienceFree Energy PrincipleAI ArchitectureConsciousness CaptureGenerative ModelsNewton's SleepSingle Vision

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Findings / Concepts
  • Essay mapping Jiang Xueqin's artificial-intelligence critique through William Blake's theory of single vision and Active Inference concepts including pathological prior dominance.
Methods / Techniques
  • Visual and symbolic analysis
  • Cross-domain pattern mapping

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Friedman, Daniel Ari. 2026. The Architecture of False Gods: William Blake, Professor Jiang, and the Active Inference Corrective to Single Vision. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20144983. URL: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20144983.

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