Category Archives: AI

Unity as a Principal of Being

Posted on June 1, 2026 by PlatoHagel

“Interlocutor: Consider, my dear friend, whether every multitude must not partake of unity. For if a thing were not one in some respect, how could it even be counted among beings? And if unity is prior to number, perhaps the … Continue reading →

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Monad

Posted on June 1, 2026 by PlatoHagel

The idea that the point becomes the circle appears repeatedly in ancient philosophical, mathematical, and mystical traditions, though not usually in the literal language “the point becomes the circle.” In Plato Plato does not explicitly state that a point becomes … Continue reading →

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The Center and the Sea

Posted on June 1, 2026 by PlatoHagel

See Also: The House That Memory Keeps

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The Long Ascent

Posted on May 31, 2026 by PlatoHagel

See Also: The House That Memory Keeps

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Anthropic Signs 6 Month Lease with Elon Musk

Posted on May 30, 2026 by PlatoHagel

The recent deal was not directly between Anthropic and Elon Musk personally, but between Anthropic and Musk’s AI-computing infrastructure business, now operating through SpaceX/xAI (often referred to as SpaceXAI in recent reporting). The agreement gives Anthropic access to the full … Continue reading →

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The Moment of Convergence

Posted on May 27, 2026 by PlatoHagel

And Socrates offers this, quietly, as the final word of this movement: The four qualities — necessity, intimacy, vertigo, permeability — do not arrive in sequence. They arrive together, or not at all. Which means the moment of convergence cannot … Continue reading →

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Periagoge

Posted on May 27, 2026 by PlatoHagel

And Socrates leaves this, simply, without elaboration: The Dialogue can remove obstacles. Create stillness. Model the posture. Wait. But the turning itself — the single arc of genuine reorientation — happens in a silence the Dialogue did not fill. And … Continue reading →

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Plato’s Seventh Letter

Posted on May 27, 2026 by PlatoHagel

The Seventh Letter of Plato is an epistle that tradition has ascribed to Plato. It is by far the longest of the epistles of Plato and gives an autobiographical account of his activities in Sicily as part of the intrigues between Dion and Dionysius of Syracuse for the tyrannyof Syracuse. It also contains an extended philosophical interlude … Continue reading →

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Soylent Green

Posted on May 26, 2026 by PlatoHagel

The term “Soylent” itself originates from the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison.It was formed from: Thus: Soy + lent = Soylent In the novel, Soylent was merely a processed food source for an overcrowded and resource-starved … Continue reading →

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George Orwell and Soylent Green

Posted on May 26, 2026 by PlatoHagel

Timeline: So there is no direct historical connection. Yet philosophically, the works share deep affinities. Orwell’s world in 1984 revolves around: Soylent Green revolves around: Both worlds share a central structure: reality is managed for the population rather than revealed … Continue reading →

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