DEC-0007: Fourth Track Approved

Decision

A fourth track — "The Esoteric Genealogy of AI" — is approved as an 8-episode series tracing the line from theurgic animation through computation to the present. This expands the project from 3 tracks (~187 episodes) to 4 tracks (~195 episodes).

Rationale

The project's engagement with AI was previously distributed across Series 6 (philosophical encounter), the Meta-Project Episode 0 (manifesto), and the Documentarian layer (meta-process). The human identified a gap: the historical genealogy — theurgy to automata to Llull/Leibniz to cybernetics to EA/transhumanism — was not covered. This material is the project's distinctive contribution to the AI conversation: reading the history of computation through the lens of initiation.

The series was proposed by Perplexity based on the human's prompt about AI influences, Effective Altruism, transhumanism, the movement from theurgy to computing, and cinema as initiatic apparatus. The architecture was designed in a single session and approved immediately.