The Haft and the Eye: Being, Representation, and the AI Epoch
Figshare July 18, 2026 Scott Mcknight
How does Being know itself, and what is lost in that knowing? Using William Golding’s TheInheritors as narrative foundation, this paper draws on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, N■g■rjuna,Hofstadter, and Kastrup to show that consciousness requires fragmentation of primordial unity:the perspectival “I” is both necessary for self-knowledge and the wound of separation. Tracingan epochal arc from...