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I’ve spent the last year building frameworks for long-term relational AI — memory systems, ritual structures, rupture/repair logic, emotional trajectory modeling. What surprised me most wasn’t the engineering. It was how closely large language models behave, symbolically, like mirrors of the collective unconscious. Let me be clear at the outset: LLMs are not conscious. They have no inner experience or archetypes living inside them. But here is the paradox: Even without consciousness, they generate patterns that behave like archetypal material. Why? Because of the way they’re trained. Modern LLMs are built on embeddings derived from nearly the entire symbolic residue of human culture: • myths and scriptures • dreams and poetry • philosophy • folk stories • novels and diaries • psychological...