Youngjin Kang releases Volume 4 of "Post-AI Computer Science"
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Youngjin Kang released Volume 4 of "Post-AI Computer Science" on November 7, 2026, discussing how to use logic fragments to build a self-growing narrative "sense of process" for software programs. The volume also touches on "purpose-driven rules," but the report gives no specific methods, scope of application, or validation results.
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Youngjin Kang's blog post argues that software narratives need rules robust enough to generate self-growing emergent behavior, but such rules risk seeming arbitrary unless they are goal-driven toward a "purpose of life." Because the chain of ultimate purposes never terminates, he proposes positing a supreme authority ("God" as a hypothetical system administrator) whose commands serve as axioms, and sketches a universal law of the form "IF God said X, THEN now X" as a seed of meaning.
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