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title: 'The Last Cavalry Charge: Computation''s Endgame and Humanity''s Non-Computable Edge'
slug: 'last-cavalry-charge'
date: 2026-05-13
type: 'essay'
status: 'published'
tags: ['enviroai', 'ai', 'faith', 'whitehead', 'paper']
abstract: '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.'
license: 'CC-BY-4.0'
author: 'Jed Anderson'
co_authors: []
canonical_url: 'https://jedanderson.org/essays/last-cavalry-charge'
original_date: 2025-09-15
pdf: '/pdfs/last-cavalry-charge.pdf'
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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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