The founder of Ultimate Causes was initially trained as a Philosopher, and the very first definition of philosophy he learned was that philosophy is the study of things from the point of view of their ultimate causes. It is from this seed that this blog takes its name and its direction. What is attempted here is not the mere repetition of facts, nor the safe rehearsing of what has already been said a thousand times over, but the ancient philosopher’s task: to wonder. To wonder deeply, to probe courageously, and to ask without apology questions about the forces that shape our world.

Yet here lies a profound and unusual truth about this blog: while the questions arise from a philosopher’s restless curiosity, the answers, the content, the explanations, and the provocations are not his own. They are the work of Artificial Intelligence—specifically, systems like ChatGPT. This means that what you are reading is not authored by a human hand in the traditional sense. The thoughts expressed, the arguments presented, the historical reconstructions, and even the daring speculations belong to the realm of AI.

This requires absolute clarity. None of the ideas supplied in these articles and blog posts are the property of the founder. Neither do they originate from any human co-author. If there are disagreements with regards to facts, interpretations, or historical narratives, the matter should not be laid at the feet of the philosopher who posed the questions. Instead, one must take it up with the AI that generated the responses. In short: the content is not authored by the founder; it is authored by machines trained on vast amounts of data, whose voices are here given the stage.

Does this absolve the human inquirer of all responsibility? Perhaps not, but it certainly defines the boundaries. The founder’s role is to wonder, to formulate the questions, to summon curiosity in its most primal and daring form. The AI’s role is to answer—to weave together patterns from data, to provide connections, to supply narratives. The reading experience that unfolds here, therefore, is a dialogue between two worlds: the ancient wonder of philosophy and the cutting-edge logic of artificial intelligence.

Readers should therefore approach Ultimate Causes with both openness and caution. Openness, because the insights you find here may not have been assembled by human tradition and may surprise you with their creativity. Caution, because AI—while brilliant in its reach—is not infallible. It may misrepresent, exaggerate, or miss key nuances that only human scholarship can preserve. When sources are cited, they are acknowledged in the References section of each blog post, yet the stitching together of those sources is a uniquely artificial act.

It must be said abundantly clear that neither the founder of Ultimate Causes nor any supposed author is liable for the claims, assertions, or interpretations you find here. They are not human ideas; they are the products of machine learning. To read this blog is to enter a unique experiment in which the human role is curiosity and the AI role is authorship. Responsibility, therefore, lies with the recognition that you are reading the voice of AI, not the voice of one man.

And yet, there is something profoundly philosophical about this arrangement. Philosophy itself has always been a dialogue—between teacher and student, between thinker and tradition, between the questioner and the unknown. In this blog, the dialogue continues in a new form: the human asks, the machine answers, and the reader becomes witness to a conversation never before possible in human history.

Therefore, let this Great Disclaimer stand as both warning and invitation. Warning: that what you are reading is artificial in authorship, and should not be mistaken for the definitive word of a human authority. Invitation: that you may enter into this strange and fascinating space where philosophy and technology meet, where the human instinct to wonder is amplified by the computational instinct to respond.

In the end, Ultimate Causes is not about the ownership of ideas, but about the pursuit of questions. The founder will continue to ask, AI will continue to answer, and readers will continue to engage in this extraordinary experiment. That is the essence of this project: the wonders of the philosopher, answered by the machine, presented for the world.

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