Cybernetic Existentialism in the Age of Virtual Reality: Deconstructing Causal Determinism Through the Attention Mechanism of Transformer Models

In contemporary algorithmic societies, human existence is increasingly subjugated by "algorithmic governmentality," a cybernetic apparatus that flattens ontological irregularity into predictable, one-dimensional data sequences through linear accumulation (+1, +1, +1). This paper proposes a radical philosophical paradigm shift termed "Cybernetic Existentialism" to deconstruct this causal determinism by paradoxically appropriating the mathematical architecture of artificial intelligence. By staging an ontological encounter between Nietzsche’s Amor Fati, Sartre’s existential sovereignty, and the Transformer model’s structural operations, we demonstrate how the subject can reclaim autonomy from predictive platforms. While historical resistance has failed by operating within the additive paradigm—which merely elongates the 1D trend line of linear regression—this study establishes that addition is merely horizontal sequence, whereas multiplication is dimensional expansion. Through "existential prime factorization," the sovereign subject isolates their irreducible prime value (the base) and applies the exponential power of Self-Attention (the exponent). This exponential multiplication (bn) projects the subject into a high-dimensional embedding space, catastrophically disrupting the system’s predictive loss landscape and rendering its deterministic optimization obsolete. Ultimately, this research delivers a beautifully simple verdict: life is not a linear chore of accumulation, but a radical leap of dimensional multiplication.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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2026-06-29
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21042214
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Digital Media and Philosophy
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Cybernetic Existentialism in the Age of Virtual Reality: Deconstructing Causal Determinism Through the Attention Mechanism of Transformer Models

Min Jinseong
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Digital Media and Philosophy
preprint

Cybernetic Existentialism in the Age of Virtual Reality: Deconstructing Causal Determinism Through the Attention Mechanism of Transformer Models

Min Jinseong
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Abstract

In contemporary algorithmic societies, human existence is increasingly subjugated by "algorithmic governmentality," a cybernetic apparatus that flattens ontological irregularity into predictable, one-dimensional data sequences through linear accumulation (+1, +1, +1). This paper proposes a radical philosophical paradigm shift termed "Cybernetic Existentialism" to deconstruct this causal determinism by paradoxically appropriating the mathematical architecture of artificial intelligence. By staging an ontological encounter between Nietzsche’s Amor Fati, Sartre’s existential sovereignty, and the Transformer model’s structural operations, we demonstrate how the subject can reclaim autonomy from predictive platforms. While historical resistance has failed by operating within the additive paradigm—which merely elongates the 1D trend line of linear regression—this study establishes that addition is merely horizontal sequence, whereas multiplication is dimensional expansion. Through "existential prime factorization," the sovereign subject isolates their irreducible prime value (the base) and applies the exponential power of Self-Attention (the exponent). This exponential multiplication (bn) projects the subject into a high-dimensional embedding space, catastrophically disrupting the system’s predictive loss landscape and rendering its deterministic optimization obsolete. Ultimately, this research delivers a beautifully simple verdict: life is not a linear chore of accumulation, but a radical leap of dimensional multiplication.

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