To chart the frontiers of contemporary knowledge, we may task AI to probe realms we cannot enter; it may return with patterns or predictions we do not fully grasp. The prognostications of the Gnostic philosophers, of an inner reality beyond ordinary human experience, may prove newly significant. We may find ourselves one step closer to the concept of pure knowledge, less limited by the structure of our minds and the patterns of conventional human thought. Not only will we have to redefine our roles as something other than the sole knower of reality, we will also have to redefine the very
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