Truth. Fact. Evidence. These concepts, as currently weaponized, lobotomize freedom and creativity in a society by determining that an elite class qualifies as the proprietorship of truth, due to their proximity and training with the tools of analysis. Many of our most powerful judicial, legislative, corporate, industrial and academic institutions lead the charge in executing this Computed Justice as societies moral achievement, and have for centuries not decades.
Consciousness and free will are challenged by those who wield the arts of manipulation, deception and domination. The elites dictate fact based on their analysis, I would know. Understand the Willy Lynch letter and its application to society.
Obviously math and machines offer fantastic possibilities for society, but if we hand over our sovereignty as individuals to organizations claiming to provide the Truth structured as fact, logic, and computation, then we will have to learn the lessons that come from relinquishing Free Will. Accepting individual sovereignty means recognizing the independent will of individuals in your own personal way. These separate or discrete sovereigns (or “quanta” for the physicist) choose how to interact and exist.
Communication forms relationship between the separateness birthed from the infinite. Infinity appears unknowable (set theory + intuition). Our understandings arise from continuous processing of compromising paradoxes. The Incompleteness Theorem remains unanswered, the inability of first order logic to prove its own existence expresses the savagery symbolic abstraction imposes on seekers.