Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac

The Lantern and the Demon: Mythic Auditors of Coherence - A Comparative Study in Ethical Thermodynamics and Mythopoetic Control Systems

When Diogenes’ lantern is raised today, it shines through every algorithmic bias audit, every whistleblower’s disclosure, every act of transparency that restores feedback to closed systems.
The demon at the gate reminds us: information divorced from empathy is violence by other means.

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Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac

The Entropy of False Coherence: Psychopathy and the Thermodynamics of Power - An Extension of the ΔSyn Framework of Coherence and Moral Thermodynamics

This volume investigates the relationship between informational entropy, moral psychology, and systemic power asymmetry. It proposes that the global socio-economic order operates as a thermodynamic machine of false coherence, a system that maintains apparent order by exporting entropy onto disempowered populations and ecosystems.

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Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac Audits of Meaning Thomas Prislac

On Solomon’s Chain: Enslavement, Consent, and the Audit of the Soul

This essay reframes Solomonic “mastery” over spirits as a failure of consent corrosive to the ruler’s inner control environment. Reading goetic and rabbinic traditions alongside Neoplatonic metaphysics, we treat demons as cosmic monads or mirrors of faculties within the king, whose testimonies Solomon suppresses rather than integrates.

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On Solomon’s Folly: Gnosis, Governance, and the Internal Controls of the Soul

This essay re-examines the book of Ecclesiastes through a dual lens of theological exegesis and systems analysis. Traditionally, Solomon’s material abundance has been interpreted as divine favor; a reward for wisdom. Yet a closer hermeneutic reveals the inverse: that the opulence was not blessing but burden, a divine internal control intended to test Solomon’s stewardship of gnosis.

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