Essay
The Last Cavalry Charge: Computation's Endgame and Humanity's Non-Computable Edge
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Formalizes Whitehead’s Law of Unthinking as a physical principle, then asks what remains for humans when computation has automated every operation that can be automated. A.I. can’t pray—humans can.
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BibTeX
@misc{anderson_2026_last_cavalry_charge,
author = {Jed Anderson},
title = {The Last Cavalry Charge: Computation's Endgame and Humanity's Non-Computable Edge},
year = {2026},
url = {https://jedanderson.org/essays/last-cavalry-charge},
note = {Accessed: 2026-05-13}
} APA
Anderson, J. (2026). The Last Cavalry Charge: Computation's Endgame and Humanity's Non-Computable Edge. Retrieved from https://jedanderson.org/essays/last-cavalry-charge
MLA
Anderson, Jed. "The Last Cavalry Charge: Computation's Endgame and Humanity's Non-Computable Edge." Jed Anderson, May 13, 2026, https://jedanderson.org/essays/last-cavalry-charge.