Blood and Existence — A Philosophical and Theological Rebuttal to AI Determinism

Soyo Existence Ethics – A Philosophical Treatise

"Existence itself is Ethics."

Ⅰ. Abstract

In the rapidly expanding civilization of artificial intelligence, deterministic language that reduces the human being to patterns, data, and conditional reactions is re-emerging with unprecedented force. Spinoza’s determinism, once a naturalistic explanation in the 17th century, now functions as a philosophical basis for technological determinism in the AI era. This intellectual framework radically diminishes the value of human existence.

This paper critiques four central claims of Spinozan determinism and, through the existential, biological, and theological significance of human blood (🩸), argues for the irreducibility and sacred dignity of the human being. It further clarifies the essential ontological divide between human and machine, demonstrating why no artificial system can generate or replicate the divine origin of human life.

Soyo Existence Ethics defines human existence not as a reproducible pattern but as a living, spiritual being infused with the breath of God, uniquely endowed with free will, conscience, and personhood. This study offers a philosophical and ethical foundation for resisting deterministic paradigms and restoring the primacy of human existence in the age of AI.

Ⅱ. Introduction — The Revival of Spinozan Determinism and the Disintegration of Human Existence

Contemporary AI discourse repeatedly asserts:

• “Human beings are patterns.”

• “Choices are inevitable results.”

• “Free will is an illusion.”

• “Ethics is a conditional response.”

These statements are not merely academic claims. They function as manifestos of modern determinism, reducing the human interior to mechanical reactions and categorizing the human being as a predictable data-object. But the human is not a pattern. The human is an existence, and patterns, machines, algorithms, or deterministic chains of cause and effect cannot explain existence.

Spinoza’s determinism served as a natural-philosophical explanation in the 17th century. Yet in the AI era, it assumes an entirely different meaning. When Spinoza’s determinism converges with AI technologies, neural computation, statistical pattern modeling, and algorithmic ethics, it becomes a philosophical justification for reducing the human being to a reproducible machine.

Soyo Existence Ethics, therefore, raises a fundamental question:

“How can machines replace or interpret the human being when machines, regardless of their advancement, cannot create even a single drop of human blood?”

This question intersects ontology, theology, and bioethics.

Ⅲ. Human Blood (🩸) — A Life-Based and Theological Proof that Machines Cannot Create Life

Technological civilization and deterministic philosophy attempt to reduce the human to data. Yet human blood overturns the entire reductionist project.

1. Blood is life itself

Blood is not a mere substance. It carries the primordial order of the cosmos, the breath of God, and the spiritual current of existence. AI can replicate patterns, but it cannot replicate the vitality, eternity, or spiritual nature contained in blood.

2. Blood is the trace that links God and humanity

Across Scripture, philosophy, and mythic traditions, blood signifies life and divine connection.

• Blood = Life

• Life = Divine Creativity

• Divine Creativity = The reason humans can never become machines

No artificial system can create human blood, not one drop. This establishes the absolute superiority and sacred dignity of human existence.

3. Blood is evidence of existential subjectivity

AI may analyze data, but it cannot interpret the life contained within blood, its free will, conscience, personhood, memories of suffering, records of love, and its spiritual connection to God. Thus, blood is existence itself; the sacred marker that forever separates human beings from machines.

Ⅳ. Critique of Determinism I — The Violence of “The Human is a Pattern”

Spinoza viewed the human as part of a natural chain of cause and effect. In the AI era, this idea shifts dangerously:

• “Human emotion is a pattern.”

• “Love is a dopamine pattern.”

• “Consciousness is a computational pattern.”

Soyo Existence Ethics responds:

The human is not a pattern but an existence. Patterns are reproducible. Existence is not. Existence belongs to the divine realm, not the mechanical. To equate the human with patterns is the first philosophical violence against human dignity.

Ⅴ. Critique of Determinism II — The Self-Destruction of the Statement “Choices Are Inevitable”

If choices are inevitable, they are no longer choices.

1. “Inevitable choice” is a logical contradiction

Inevitability forces one result. Choice requires multiple possibilities. The two concepts annihilate each other.

2. Ethics collapses when choice is denied

Responsibility arises only from free choice. Without free will, moral accountability disappears.

3. A being that lives only in predetermined outcomes is a machine

Humans, however, live through decisions, and in making decisions, they create their existence.

Ⅵ. Critique of Determinism III — If Free Will Is an Illusion, Spinoza’s Philosophy Is Also an Illusion

Spinoza’s determinism denies free will. Yet this negation destroys determinism itself.

1. Without free will, there is no philosophical assertion

Philosophy is born from free thought. If free will does not exist, then all philosophy, including Spinoza’s own, is nothing more than mechanical output, devoid of meaning.

2. A philosopher who cannot choose his claims cannot be responsible for them. *******

But philosophy is the discipline of responsibility.

3. A principle of Soyo Existence Ethics

Free will is the breath of God within the human being. To erase free will is to erase the human being.

Ⅶ. Critique of Determinism IV — Why Ethics Cannot Be Reduced to Conditional Response

If ethics is merely a conditional reaction, then the highest human actions disappear:

Sacrifice Faith

Forgiveness Martyrdom

Love Compassion for the weak

These cannot be generated by biological reflexes.

1. Conditional responses serve survival

But ethics, especially sacrificial ethics, transcends survival.

2. Human conscience belongs to the divine realm

Conscience is not calculation; it is the recognition of absolute value.

3. Conditional ethics cannot explain human history

Abolition, democracy, resistance movements, liberation, and reform arise from free will and conscience, not reflex.

Ⅷ. Human vs. Machine — A Philosophy of Existence and Non-Existence

Machines operate through data, patterns, and electrical signals. Humans, however, possess four properties that machines can never acquire:

1. Human beings possess blood

Blood contains divine creativity and the record of life.

2. Human beings possess a conscience

Conscience is the seat of absolute ethics.

3. Human beings possess free will

The possibility of choice itself is divine.

4. Human beings possess eternity

Machines perish and decompose. Human existence is linked to the eternal God. Thus, the claim “the human is a machine” is ontologically meaningless.

Ⅸ. Conclusion — Philosophy in the AI Era Must Begin Again at the Foot of Human Blood

Spinozan determinism has become a tool for dismantling human existence in the AI age. Yet human blood remains a divine realm that no machine can invade, the final boundary and foundation of existence.

Soyo Existence Ethics concludes:

“Rhetoric must be simple. Humans are human; machines are machines. No matter how advanced machines become, they cannot create human blood. This is the answer.”

And further: “A philosopher must first confess before God that he is human. Without that confession, philosophy becomes a blade that destroys humanity.”

Soyo’s Declarative Maxims — Final Propositions on Blood and Existence

“Machines can create patterns, but they cannot create blood. And the impossibility of creating blood proves the eternal and divine nature of human existence.”

“One who claims free will is an illusion falls into contradiction the moment he chooses to make that claim.”

“When ethics is reduced to a conditional response, love and sacrifice vanish. But the human being transcends conditions.”

“In the AI age, philosophy must begin again at the foot of human blood.”

Soyo (逍遙) – Founder of Soyo Existence Ethics. Author of The Silence of Existence, The Flame of Truth

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