THE MEANING MACHINE: WHO MAKES THE LEAP FROM ZERO TO ONE?
Today, the colossal fallacy confusing everyone from Silicon Valley to academia, dragging humanity into a dystopian existential crisis, is knotted in a single word: Will. The machine calculates. The human asks. The human creates. The human wills. The Meaning Machine stands before the exact same boundary. It can ask, answer, multiply, and translate. But it cannot will. To will—that is, to bear an agony (dert)—remains forever the work of the human. Both the right and the responsibility are inscribed to the bearer of that agony. This transdisciplinary manifesto defines the ontological, ethical, and legal boundaries of the new era of Human-AI partnership. It presents the concept of "Hybrid Rebellion" against the obsolete, visionless systems of traditional gatekeepers, proving that true expertise is not a diploma, but the human will directing boundless algorithmic intelligence to make the leap from "Zero to One."
Authors
- Levant Dönmez
Institutions
- Oldham Council (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
- Published
- 2026-06-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20847457
- Primary Topic
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Type
- preprint