绝对的流形：作为生成推断的宗教永恒主义
The Manifold of the Absolute: Religious Perennialism as Generative Inference
AI总结：
本文通过生成推断方法探讨宗教永恒主义，指出排他主义和普遍主义的局限性，认为永恒主义在解释宗教趋同和结构信息方面表现最佳。
摘要：
本文通过变分自编码器的数学方法正式化宗教认识论。我们将宗教传统建模为从共享的低维潜在空间到高维可观测文化形式空间的不同生成映射，并定义三种竞争性的生成配置，分别对应排他主义、普遍主义和永恒主义，以及作为可观测空间中直接混合的泛灵论。通过归纳比较，我们论证排他主义无法简洁地解释跨传统冥想的趋同，泛灵论因结合不同生成过程的输出而产生不一致的产物而失败，而普遍主义则因后验崩溃：将传统缩减到共同核心而丢弃了必要的结构信息。永恒主义配置提供了最佳的解释契合。在此框架下，严格正统主义并非文化约束，而是结构上的必然：那些恢复潜在源的冥想实践必须与所输入的传统形式相匹配。如果宗教的统一性存在，它是真实的，但无法通过捷径获得：必须深入而非广度扩展。
英文摘要：
This paper formalizes religious epistemology through the mathematics of Variational Autoencoders. We model religious traditions as distinct generative mappings from a shared, low-dimensional latent space to the high-dimensional space of observable cultural forms, and define three competing generative configurations corresponding to exclusivism, universalism, and perennialism, alongside syncretism as direct mixing in observable space. Through abductive comparison, we argue that exclusivism cannot parsimoniously account for cross-traditional contemplative convergence, that syncretism fails because combining the outputs of distinct generative processes produces incoherent artifacts, and that universalism suffers from posterior collapse: stripping traditions to a common core discards the structural information necessary for inference. The perennialist configuration provides the best explanatory fit. Within this framework, strict orthodoxy emerges not as a cultural constraint but as a structural necessity: the contemplative practices that recover the latent source must be matched to the specific tradition whose forms they take as input. The unity of religions, if it exists, is real but inaccessible by shortcut: one must go deep rather than wide.
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