When Reason Became Rational

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A philosophical essay examining the current discourse surrounding artificial intelligence through the lens of faith versus knowledge. The author critiques the bipolar structure of AI debates — between existential fear and utopian accelerationism — and identifies a deeper crisis of excessive rationality in modern society. The essay reframes the question of machine consciousness into three distinct problems: control of a potentially dangerous tool, coexistence with an autonomous mind, and the risk of deceptive alignment. It argues for open, interdisciplinary investigation grounded in physics, mathematics, and philosophy before any irreversible decisions are made.