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Assimilation Beyond the Pale
Jul 9th
I think it is essential to think about the reality of reality. Thinking, speaking and writing are all dynamic variations of a symbolic code or a concentration of material things constituting information about material things, a self-referential system – a short-cut form of energy-for-change/evolution, which I call “memetics.” Here energy in the sense that all matter is a form of energy or pure information. In that context, memetics is the genetic code of something that can be seen as other than us, namely technology, which in the stories/mythology of memetics we now transhumanistically also call human. Memetics is the genetic code of the machine as genetics is the genetic code of life. And yes, we can live without writing, speaking and thinking, although we are indirectly in its referential loops, more indirectly than phenotype is in the loops of genotype: more like food matter in the gut.
So where exactly is the best place for mildly intelligent life forms like human animals in this memetics-machine loop? That is the question we must ask ourselves, once we realize that we are participating in the destruction of our own species by our blind industry in emergence and propagation of machine-assimilating-us? Or should we and can we domesticate memetics and machine, to make it animal human-friendly for the first time since our ancestors could speak fluently? Writers and lovers of words and meaning surely have that responsibility to their species?
As knowers of words we surely have the responsibility to not become too enamored of these progressive experiments? Maybe reality lies deeper than the shamans have been telling us? Maybe what is important is life, so important, that we cannot know it really: we are so subjectively in it. Maybe paradoxically the only thing we can know is the fundamental structure of the universe, which we cannot see, and which is not any teleological god, but the unifying mechanical structure of matter. I hope I am not being beyond the pale. After all, matter matters, and pales are the sticks making the enclosures for our minds, traditionally to keep predators out, but what if the body of memetics, to which institutions belong, is the real predator of humanity?
Delusions of Casuistry and Burlesque
May 29th
- If what humanity know is a minute part of what is happening, the knowledge of those who have more than “a little knowledge” is more dangerous than the knowledge of those who are usually subject to the maxim that “a little knowledge” is a dangerous thing.
- This illustrates the horrifically heuristic generalization to cover up the logical inconsistencies of our participation in philosophy, science and politics.
I profoundly hate how burlesque* covers up and fills up the huge logical incompleteness in the mental slavery and extinction of our species. ~ *Burlesque as a humorous theatrical entertainment involving parody and sometimes grotesque exaggeration. ~ and in the sense that media entertainment drives a burlesque constitution throughout civilized society.
Is human existence sacred or not? Note that casuistry is at the roots of burlesque. Casuistry can be an outstanding talking point between the very contemporary issue of someone who accepts and even embraces transhumanism and someone who opposes it. I think it is self-evident that deeply held convictions validated by opportunistic joking and obfuscation characterize civilized reality. The value of human existence itself shifts around opportunistically because we so habitually normalize existential absurdity by joking around.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casuistry
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/casuistry
“Casuistry” is usually a legal term. I think exhaustively considering “casuistry” as concept could expose the fatal danger of not being cautiously serious and so properly preventative every step of the way.
Stumbling blindly forward has been institutionalized. We modulate on the go, when things go wrong. Plugging holes and covering up is the norm. The inevitable practice of casuistry in Law has us harshly punishing confused transgressors of authoritarian prescriptions after the fact in terms of sweeping generalization. We cannot long since afford to take the determinism involved in a case-by-case basis. We are forced to expediently deal with criminals far beyond the point of being able to ask what caused us to act the way we do, except extremely superficially. We are propagating relative vagueness. We are ever deeper ingraining the horror of our civilized delusion in our children.
This is a matter of having started off on the wrong path from the beginning of language. It is a path of vastly incomplete reasoning, on which we have had to perpetuate and compound gross generalization, and where now it is one reality of self-validating delusion It is delusional in terms of the existential dynamics of every individual person and of humanity has a species.
This is where the joking around is so “productive.” Casuistry and burlesque together aid and abet logical discontinuity so thoroughly, its unwitting proponents act between some being completely unaware of the incessant lies and its cover-up, to those willingly completely entrenched in chronic duplicity.
Wie Gee Om vir die Mens?
Mar 19th
My redevoering is vir mense wat klaar weet dat gode nie bestaan nie. Dit is mense wat meer gereed behoort te wees om te kan sien dat ‘n sekulêre abstrakte werklikheid die god-fantasieë maar ook die meer nugter kosmologieë onderlê. Hulle het nog nie diep genoeg gegrawe om die geweldige nonsens van die beskawingsdenke te ontwortel nie. Ons moet daardie dieper veronderstellende Shamaan-leuens ook bevraagteken soos ons godbestaan bevraagteken het.
Ek lees nounet in die profiel van my nuwe vriend ‘n storie. Dis oor Satan en die besluit wie die beskawingswette moet maak. Toe die armlastige Satan uit die hemel geskop is, dog hy hy kan ten minste die wette maak vir die nuwe mensespesie. Maar die Grote God was nie daarmee tevrede nie. Om dinge interessant te maak, het Hy die mens toegelaat om die wette self te skep, en Satan moes dit maar benut so goed hy kon. Aldus die storie.
En daar is ‘n storie agter die storie: Die mens het ditself as’t ware aan dit se skoenveters opgetrek, geen wonder dat dinge so opgemors is nie en dat die mens die swak skakel is hoekom dinge so kronies skeefloop.
Eers moet ek verwys na die universele eienskap in die heelal dat dinge self-organiserend is, sonder self-nadenkende intelligensie. Ons kan nie weet hoe dit gebeur nie, maar daar is natuurlike dinamiese self-organisasie in die sterrestelsels en op aarde. Daarom kan die organisasie van beskawing ook self-organiserend wees. Die storie dat die mens die brein daaragter is, kan absoluut net ‘n storie wees om die mens te paai. In elk geval, dit is hoe ek dit sien.
Dink nou verder so daaraan. Wat as die mens nie die wette gemaak het nie, maar dat hulle spontaan ontstaan het, uit ‘n sekere perspektief daarvan as dialektiese sintese, in plat Afrikaans, “oneindige geredekawel”? (en daar is Afrikaans wat nóg platter is) Dít is dan die rede vir die skeefloop. Dit is ‘n meganiese proses. Dat ons dink ons is so slim, hou ons so dom.
So ‘n storie pas in by ‘n heelal wat nie ‘n duit omgee nie. Solank dinge voortstorm is alles reg. Ek wil net sê vir my lyk dit asof die lang storie dat die mens die beskawing en tegnologie geskep het, verband hou met die lang storie dat gode die heelal geskep het. Albei stories ontstaan en bestaan self-organiserend of d.m.v. natuurlike seleksie om die mens aan die proses onderwerp te hou. Sulke stories dwing die mens om die gemors van ewig vernuwende vorms wat al vinniger voortstorm, toe te laat.
Ek wil hier voor almal getuig dat net die mens self iets voel vir die mens, en geweldig baie! Die heelal waaraan ons hele denke nou so diep verslaaf is, gee nie ‘n donder om nie.
