Comparative Ontological Ladders (Nilsson's Three Tracks)
Interactive LadderScrub 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.
René Guénon's Involution Axes (The Reign of Quantity)
Synthesis Dossier: Current Ontological State
Tier IV: Pure SimulacrumSynthetic 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."
Complete occlusion of Dasein by technological Gestell; enfleshed alterity replaced by algorithmic feedback loops.
Progressive falling away from Truth: first metaphysical occultation, followed by total severance from material embodiment.