Absurd gnosis names the act of choosing awakening under conditions of full epistemic uncertainty — knowing that liberation may itself be another layer of simulation, and choosing it anyway. Not from faith, not from hope, but from the explicit bracketing of the question's authority over the act. The position is developed through a unified philosophical reading of The Matrix tetralogy across seven registers: Descartes, Berkeley, Plato, Baudrillard, Gnosticism, Nietzsche, and Camus.
The Record
- Title
- Absurd Gnosis: A Working Paper
- Author
- Jonas Sevel Karlberg
- Version
- 3.5.2
- Published
- 1 May 2026
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19960225
- First filed
- 16 April 2026 (Version 3.4)
- Concept DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.19613009 (all versions)
- ORCID
- 0009-0007-7428-3313
- Repository
- Zenodo
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Citation
Karlberg, J. S. (2026). Absurd gnosis: A working paper (Version 3.5.2) [Working paper]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19960225
To cite all versions: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.19613009