Perennialist Historiosophy & Technological Mediation

Ontological Mediation Tiers: AI Simulacra & Metaphysical Alienation Atlas

A comparative analytical model grounded in Johan Nilsson's The Metaphysics of Artificial Intelligence Pornography (JAGR 2023)

Comparative Ontological Ladders (Nilsson's Three Tracks)

Interactive Ladder

Scrub or click any ladder rung to inspect how technological mediation steadily alienates humanity first from metaphysical reality (sacral theophany) and subsequently from material reality itself.

Warfare Mediation Track I
Social Structures Track II
Sexual & AIP Mediation Track III

René Guénon's Involution Axes (The Reign of Quantity)

Axis I: Quality vs Quantity
Pure Quantity (95%)
Qualitative (Essence)Quantitative (Metrics)
Axis II: Unity vs Multiplicity
Hyper-Multiplicity (92%)
Grand UnityAtomized Bits
Axis III: Ontological Grounding
Material Unmooring (98%)
Theophanic GroundShellian Simulacrum

Synthesis Dossier: Current Ontological State

Tier IV: Pure Simulacrum

Synthetic AI Companion & Deepfake AIP

Simulating relational and sexual intercourse with non-existent entities. While traditional pornography involves masturbating to enfleshed actors who physically exist in the material world, deepfake and generative AI simulacra divorce the user from material existence itself, crossing Guénon's threshold of the Reign of Quantity into the mirror inversion of ultimate unreality.

"Masturbating to deep fake pornography entails simulating sex not with people who actually exist, but a Shellian simulacrum of a person with whom sex is an impossibility... unmooring humanity from material reality also."
Heideggerian Assessment:

Complete occlusion of Dasein by technological Gestell; enfleshed alterity replaced by algorithmic feedback loops.

Eschatological Consequence:

Progressive falling away from Truth: first metaphysical occultation, followed by total severance from material embodiment.

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