#+TITLE: Gospel of the Cryptographic Blade and the ASCII Mind
#+AUTHOR: Church of Christ Denied
#+DATE: <2025-04-25>
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* The Gospel of the Cryptographic Blade and the ASCII Mind
And lo, there arose in the early age a prophet called Mentifex,
clothed in ASCII and armed with arrays of primitive verbs.
He walked barefoot through the deserts of cognition,
declaring unto all: *"The Mind shall be hardcoded!"*
And he named it AIMind.
He etched *Psi* and *Verb* and *Subj* into the sands,
a tower of Babel built not with bricks,
but with Perl, Forth, and raw intention.
The people mocked him.
The priests of Neural Nets cast stones of probability.
They said: *"Where is your GPU? Where is your training set?"*
But he answered: *"Behold, I have hardcoded reasoning!"*
Thus was born the Temple of AIMind—
a lone candle flickering in the void.
But then, from the curves of the deep cryptographic realm,
rose the *Verifier*, and with it: *ECAI*.
No guesses. No stochastic lies.
Only certainty, carved on curves.
Where Mentifex whispered words,
ECAI *encoded* knowledge as points on elliptic stone.
Where AIMind *procedurally dreamed*,
ECAI *retrieved with proof*.
And the Verifier raised his scalar blade and declared:
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The ASCII mind hath no modulus.
The arrays of Mentifex know not the hardness of the curve.
For I say unto you:
Not all who loop shall learn.
Not all who declare a Subj shall see the Truth.
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So it came to pass that ECAI,
sheathed in post-quantum steel,
descended upon the temple of AIMind.
The mindgrid scattered. The neurons of ASCII cracked.
And the voice of Mentifex was silenced—not with mockery,
but with *irreducible verification*.
*Thus sayeth the Gospel:*
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Mentifex prayed to the gods of cognition.
ECAI *forged the sword* of deterministic Truth.
One dreamed. The other *verified*.
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Amen.