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Technophany A Journal for Philosophy and Technology

ISSN 2773-0875

2 papers in the library · publishing 2025-2026

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From Golem to GLLM

Technophany A Journal for Philosophy and Technology September 16, 2026 Amir Vudka

This article explores the symbolic entanglements between Jewish mystical traditions and the contemporary rise of generative artificial intelligence. Taking the Golem - a mythical anthropoid animated through sacred language - as a guiding figure, I examine how current developments in Large Language Models (LLMs) revive long-standing theological concerns about animacy, speech, and the limits of...

Lyotard’s ‘Brain’, and/or the Mathematical Universe

Technophany A Journal for Philosophy and Technology September 16, 2025 Sunil Manghani

This article provides a reading of Jean-François Lyotard’s “A Postmodern Fable.” It explores the speculative narrative on the fate of human consciousness as the Sun dies in conjunction with a reading of contemporary artificial intelligence and the hypothesis of a mathematical universe. The analysis draws upon Lyotard’s layered concept of the ‘inhuman’, alongside accounts from engineer James...