human perspective: the only good in this world
Machine Mind Singularity
Civilization
Sep 8th
As the Pentagon rebrands Operation Iraqi Freedom as Operation New Dawn — a “name suggesting a skin cream or dishwashing liquid,” Bacevich aptly writes — the whitewashing of our recent history is well under way. The price will be to keep repeating it.
NYT Frank Rich “Freedom’s Just Another Word.”
Do not confuse the symptoms of a problem with the problem. The problem is much deeper than the excruciatingly superficial rationalizations of the Iraq war or those of the USA. The utter delusion is obviously universal. History explodes with it. It is ubiquitous. It is a problem of all civilized mind. Its foul stench contaminates all directions of the wind.
The Status Quo
Mar 30th
What status quo? At what point of the rising storm do we finally realize there is no status quo, that it is a figment of calculus, and that the concept serves the same function as test scores or corporate productivity quotients? When do we realize we do not have a definable image and the bitter resignation that human individuals (read: pathetic human egos) are trying to make the world over in their own image is the passing forward of another lie to degrade human life and protect the process itself from scrutiny? When do we realize that face book is another such illusion? And that instead of status quo and image, everything is a vast, tumultuous flow. Take Intelligence, Beauty and Love. The vastly indefinable experience underlying such conceptualization is most sacred, but in existential humility only, because to strut with it makes it profane and consumable. Yes, we are grains on an ocean, but only because of the ambitious and alien language we use and how it makes us think. It does not have to be this way.
“The Man” is the Machine.
Mar 19th
“Institutions of learning in this country are all Factories of Western Indoctrination. We are taught that the WHITE MAN is some kind of god whose word cannot be doubted. Our universities produce black persons who aspire to whiteness and accept white behaviour as their norm. They produce people that are loyal to Europe or Arabia, not Africa or even South Africa.” – someone’s facebook profile update.
It is very easy to mistake the delusional drive for technological singularity for “the white man.”
The gears are now spinning just as hard in the East and South-America. The facebook writer is right. In Africa something is crawling into all the nooks and crannies, like a disease. For a while the machine has developed more strongly in Europe and the USA, but it is now a worldwide epidemic. This is humanity’s final chapter.
Some traditional supporters of civilization would object about the “ignorant behavior” in Africa, all the while mumbling something conciliatory about nurture, and that everyone can learn. To even have to say “everyone can learn” is patronizing, but that is exactly not the point. The overwhelming determinant of violence in Africa since colonialization has been the half-formed sharp edges of the newer machine tearing the landscapes of the older machine apart. I am talking here about the landscape of the cultural mind, or what I call “machine mind.” The original traditional shaman mentality was already a highly competive landscape of violent statement and counterstatement. But it has never been close to as pervasively destructive as what is now happening to all of humanity.
Old African culture had in this sense always been an earlier stage of the machine jealously defending its turf. But now Africa is a burgeoning mixed bag of military-industrial complex and shaman mysticism and it hates the big Shaman, the cutting edges of the machine. Someone, some human culprit has to take the blame. It is how it has always been through the ages of the evolution of organized, civilized mind, the mind of the machine. Do not blame the predatory process. Blame some human collectivity themselves brainwashed through their ears. For many people in Africa the imaginary person to blame is “the white man.”
Human-Existential Questions
Jan 18th
Think of the dynamic intelligence of animals totally unspoilt by civilization. Imagine the exceptional particular/local, timely and concrete human-animal intelligence our ancestors had just before evolving the ability to speak fluent language, without the endless BS stories. “Particular/local, timely and concrete” meaning “human-existential.”
What if the actual evolution of language has been for the sake of the evolution of language itself, and fundamentally human-existentially destructive? What if the strongly abstract, universal and timeless kind of intelligence of civilized minds is a dismally impoverished kind of human-existential intelligence?
How is the kind of language we use wrong? What is a kind of language that would sustain human existence instead of driving it into transhuman extinction? The kind of language we want is a language that enhances the natural human-existential intelligence of a vibrant human animal, instead of subjecting human existence dismally to the existential dynamic of language/technology.
Empiricism
Nov 27th
The universe does not care about anything. It is in evolving dynamic equilibrium everywhere. We cannot analogize its causalities except very locally, and the stirring of human phenomenological spaces is as small to the universe as a point of a singularity is to its infinity. However, total human imagination is like the flapping of billions of butterfly wings. When many of us imagine for a long time that there is supernatural presence and that it has intelligent purpose, it seduces us to burn to know its imaginary Forms. Every new answer reverberates through the world as it poses ever more questions. The effect is that the evolution of the collecitve accelerates. But here is the crux. Human opinions informed by minds individually developed from birth, massively synthesize into the golden mean. Opinions aggregated take the direction of the whole, which in civilization is machine. This collective is machine mind singularity.
The illusion does not behave as we picture it, because we are universe, externally determined from every direction, even though we cannot know how. Not only can we not know what is going to happen, we cannot know where it is coming from. This moment of existence is the existential infinity, the singularity, the atman. We can know there was a past and there will be a future, but we cannot dissect it. We can only tell stories. It is not science. It is art. Here is a serious problem … when we imagine that our story-telling is science, when we DELUSIONALLY believe that empiricism is a valid way of delocalizing and universalizing human causal experience in the service of humanity, we seem to rapidly destroy our singularity. Organized imagination like religion and science supports the machine singularity, and not human singularity.
The Farce of Gods and Philosophical Realism
Nov 9th
Having said humans do not operate from the principle that human existence is a given, or the measure of everything, or the axiomatic benchmark, I think we should. I think we should because fundamentally nothing matters, and we have to believe in something. What is the natural thing to believe in? At the moment we think of something in the philosophical tradition of Plato’s Forms (as supposed god intelligence sees it) as the measure of everything. We think of our existence as secondary or as theorematic: in terms of deific realism and philosophical realism. It think as existentially human, civilized minds are utterly insane.
I think there are historically very powerful parallels between arts, physics, biology, religion, “symbolic reality” and human neural structures. I call the whole process starting with our wrongheaded shamanic use of language 100,000 odd years ago, leading to posthumanism ,”the machine.”
Two analogies to describe civilization/machine and humanity.
1) The parasitic wasp Glyptapanteles as machine and its parasitic host as humanity.
2) An incredibly powerful predator like a tiger or lion or grizzly has you, human prey in a death grip. You struggle for an instant in which you realize struggling is useless. At feeling the amazing power, you naturally submit to it by identification with it, and as soon as you submit an overpowering sensation of spiritual bliss takes hold of you.
So I DO think there is an independent reality for us outside our mind-body existence, but I think we cannot describe it. We can operate a parallel mythology part of which states that we are discussing our existence and our existential environment, which influences and changes our existence and our existential environment, but such influence is unpredictable. Our participation in civilization is literally merely an exercise of heating up and exponentially accelerating the evolution of emergent complexity leading to the extinction of the human species. We are now very close to species extinction. Our discussions today are discussions between machine minds (not human minds) and we are in machine mind singularity.
The answer to a sane reality is inside us. But then we should wield language differently to how it has been wielded so far. We should adopt no other subjective belief than believing in our own existence as the foundation of reality. “The outside,” as we tell it, is a story, not reality. No mythology is reality. Both Art and Physics are part of the same story. Its influence on the open-system evolution of Technology is indefinable. The work of any individual engineer is indefinable as an element of the evolution of technology. Every concept if it were to be a valid description of what it claims to describe, would have to include all relevant determinism, as to not be the total farce it is in the way we now use it. As you know, it is impossible to include all determinism. Language meaning is a composite farce. Scientific meaning is a double composite farce.
The Mask of Our Extinction
Nov 8th
Civilization, Monster, Machine.
The machine has mentally submitted every individual human for millenia to a pseudo-existence in which only a fraction of our potential human selves exists. It has scorned our broken condition, which it itself causes, as “Human Fall.” It has traditionally controlled us by claiming we need heavenly redemption which we can only earn by being good little humans. Finally in the endgame, to mask even our species extinction, it invites us to be spiritually and bodily consumed by (merging as one with) the monster that has seduced us into mental slavery in the first place.
The machine sells ultimate human extinction as:
1) Into technological singularity, or finding truth by undoing the ego, and remembering the deific wholeness we had forgotten.
2) Technological singularity, or actual species extinction, known as “transhumanism”: improving prosthetically to utterly become machine, with no trace of the human animal left.
Growing One with Machine
Nov 8th
Existing as Machine
Animals in nature (where the machine has not mangled everything beyond recognition) are existential, subjective and finely intuitive about their own existence. This is why I say humans already do not exist, because where we were supposed to be are automated organisms existential, subjective and finely intuitive about the existence of the machine (instead of about our own existence). And here it is obvious that the definition of “human” is constantly shifting, to clandestinely include machine.
“Human” as Mutable Concept
Civilized minds East and West are in machine mind singularity using religion, unity spirituality and philosophical rationalism as axiomatic systems by which to bigotedly reduce human existence to “reality” theorems. It is a huge mistake. It is driving humanity into species extinction. Human existence is not theorematic. It is axiomatic.
The Ultimate Mindlessness of the “Sacred”
Beliefs and ideas are the currency of the civilized mind. It is a zero sum market that has reduced indefinable human existence to caricature. It is the confused environment of ego. The acuity of existential calm of both religious euphoria and unity inspiration is a result of the stark contrast with the neurosis of philosophical rationalism and synthetic dialectics. The inclination to faithfully attach to solid associations formed by conjunction of ideas, naturally evolved in circumstances of simple survival, is central in the total human brainwashing of growing up in machine mind singularity. This process is constantly trying to overcome the extreme contradiction of essentially participating in one’s own extinction, and the ultimate answer is to trust and submit to the machine by living “in the moment of Now,” and to maintain the ego as a thin, trailing umbilical chord, maybe to maintain role-playing balance in the machine, but now utterly without questioning the machine.
No Inherent Quantum Probability
Nov 4th
” The material Universe is solely made out of Aether “
Of course this only means that we cannot know what the universe fundamentally consists of.
http://www.glafreniere.com/matter.htm
If matter at the quantum level consists of waves as LaFreniere suggests, (and not a wave-particle duality), it puts the observation that quantum mechanics is indeterministic in grave jeopardy. Still no evidence of free will there, and no creator. We still cannot know if the shaman-generated god-substitute for what we cannot know is real. If we cannot know, we can obviously only know what we can know. We can only know we have this shared human physical existence and even that we can know only absolutely subjectively. Our human existence is our only existential infinity and unity. If we want the human physical form to survive, we had better take human existence seriously. Instead we now identify so strongly with near infinitely probabilistic and fickle conceptualization due to extremely limited intelligence, we merely fantasize that we can look down at our human form objectively and with authority. We are so lost in abstract delusion of the contemporary imaginary civilized reality, we are prepared to blindly put our hope in an absolutely unknowable posthumanist transhuman future = human extinction.
more thoughts about ego
Nov 1st
“Psychological projection” is not projecting our own “deficiencies” on others. It is seeing in others the machine that we can feel subjectively in ourselves. We see it in others because we are each other. “Ego” is the result of the confused frustration of everyone’s subconscious fight against the machine in us-as-one. To assimilate with religion or spiritual philosophies offers amazingly powerful relief, because it provides a means to categorize, define, dress up and selectively file (rationalize, validate and cover up) the machine in you. I see religion as part of the development of ever more efficient symbolization – mechanism for the extreme compression of data to open up capacity for new rounds of ever more deadly versions of machine mind.
Blaming another human being for “projecting” while projection is a confused state of machine mind, is part of mindlessly defending the parasitic machine like the host of glyptapanteles defends its parasitic brood against predatory attack.
The evolving technologies of religion and spirituality complement the evolution of operative machine mind as a special function algorithm to keep the core machine mind algorithms clean. The American Psychological Association (APA), is one of the most sinister organizations on the planet. I think Psychology as a whole has done so much damage with its contorted sophism and mechanical casuistry, that it has now become a solid matrix of institutionalized neurosis.
