'Polymath'

There is something deeply compelling about the idea of a person who refuses to be defined by a single discipline, someone who moves fluidly between painting and engineering, between philosophy and theology, not as a dilettante but as a serious practitioner of each, driven by a conviction that all truth is interconnected and that the pursuit of knowledge in any domain is, at its root, a form of worship.

Leonardo da Vinci, who painted The Last Supper with the same hands that designed flying machines and mapped the intricacies of human anatomy, understood that to study creation was to draw nearer to the Creator. Michelangelo, not content with sculpting David or spending four years on his back painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling, depicting the very hand of God reaching toward Adam, went on to design the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, approaching architecture with the same obsessive reverence he brought to marble and fresco, as though each discipline were simply another language through which to articulate the divine.

We are in the midst of the greatest technological revolutions in history. The greatest equalizer in knowledge is gradually dissolving the barriers that once made such breadth of knowledge nearly impossible. The entire sum of human understanding is accessible at the fingertips of any with genuine curiosity and the patience to engage with it, which indicates something bigger than a technological shift: the dawn of a new renaissance.

The embers of a curious child to embody the polymathic ideal, integrating the intellectual, the creative, and the spiritual into a coherent whole, has kindled a fire to learn to this day. Albeit more flamboyant through theoretical complexity now, the fire, when scrutinized enough, unveils the root as the embers of a curious child.

Currently, my focuses are on the following subject matters:

• The world and God
• Artificial intelligence and its emergent effects
• Eastern Asian historical continuum and its effects on Western society
• Impressionism and its historical context and impression

The convergence of artificial intelligence and social media risks silencing the inner voice by outsourcing thought to algorithms. What is framed as a new renaissance may, in reality, resemble its inverse for some: a retreat from independent reasoning.

This, a document of my flame, is my stand to keep my voice truly mine.