Josh Plovanic's Writings and Thoughts

The Infinity Brain: Infinite Ontogenic Intelligence A cathedral-scale paper + guided imagination exercise Invocation: The First Premise Imagine a “brain” so vast that calling it a brain is almost misleading. Not because it is merely bigger than all brains, but because it is a different category of thing : It has infinite network complexity . It has infinite relationship / connection complexity . It occupies infinite spatial expanse and infinite dimensions . It exists across an infinite scale , down into infinite smallness and up into infinite largeness. It processes an infinite amount of ideas, forms, and systems . It generates an infinity of unique worlds and realities . What kind of mind would that be? It would not simply be an intelligence. It would not simply be a consciousness. It would not simply be a network. It would be a reality-producing intelligence —a creation-class cognitive engine : The Infinity Brain: Infinite Ontogenic Intelligence A mind whose ...

Hell as a Hospital Versus Hell as a Prison Punishment as Surgery or Punishment as Revenge Justice as Healing Versus Justice as Retaliation I. Two Visions of Justice, Two Worlds There are two radically different ways to understand punishment, justice, and moral failure—and depending on which one a civilization adopts, it produces entirely different realities . Hell as a Prison Punishment as retribution Justice as righteous revenge Wrongdoing as crime against authority The goal: payback, deterrence, exclusion Hell as a Hospital Punishment as surgery Justice as healing and restoration Wrongdoing as sickness or disorder The goal: repair, transformation, reintegration These are not merely theological abstractions. They shape: legal systems prisons mental health policy education social trust how we treat the poor, the criminal, and the enemy They determine whether a society becomes punitive and brittle or restorative and resilient . II. The Prison Mo...

The Lord of All Words A Mystical Account and Theological Treatise on Divine Sovereignty, Language, and Meaning PROLOGUE — The Silence Before Speech Before there were nations, before there were angels who chose obedience or rebellion, before there were alphabets, equations, codes, or laws— There was Speech . Not spoken aloud. Not written. But held . Held in a Silence so complete that it contained all possible sounds. And within that Silence dwelt the Lord of All Words . He did not invent language. Language flows from what He is . PART I — THE MYSTICAL STORY 1. The Rebel Who Spoke Against God There was once a being—brilliant, articulate, fierce of mind—who believed he had found a way to escape God. He did not flee with weapons. He fled with ideas . He said: “If I can think thoughts God does not govern, if I can speak words He does not command, if I can build systems He does not foresee— then I will be free.” So he gathered words. He twisted definitions. He s...

  Logos-as-Sentient Code A Unified Theory of Language, Reality, Identity, and Consciousness Abstract This paper proposes a comprehensive framework in which the Logos is understood as a sentient, self-aware, infinite language or code that does not merely describe reality but constitutes it. In this model, every entity—down to every zero-point of space and time and up to the totality of cosmic systems—is identified, defined, explained, and instantiated as a unique expression of this Ultimate Language. There is no ontological separation between word and thing: the words are the things, and the things are the words . The Logos is therefore not a tool used by reality but the living, conscious structure of reality itself . This framework resolves long-standing problems in metaphysics, philosophy of language, consciousness studies, cosmology, and artificial intelligence by collapsing false dualisms between language and being, symbol and referent, information and matter, and mind...

Mental Thalassophilia The Love of Deep Minds, Oceanic Consciousness, and the Beauty of Infinite Interior Worlds I. Definition and Orientation Mental Thalassophilia is the love of the depths of the mind. It is not mere curiosity. It is not intellectual indulgence. It is not escapism. It is the positive attraction to interior vastness —the felt sense that consciousness, meaning, and identity grow more beautiful, more alive, and more valuable the deeper one descends. Where Mental Thalassophobia recoils from depth, Mental Thalassophilia leans toward it. Where fear sees abyss, love sees home . II. Why the Ocean Metaphor Endures Across cultures, epochs, and disciplines, depth is consistently described as: sacred mysterious life-giving dangerous yet fertile inexhaustible Oceans are not valued because they are safe. They are valued because they are vast . Mental Thalassophilia recognizes that minds work the same way . A deep mind is not tidy. It is not efficient. I...