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Questioning Questioning
Sep 15th
It is good to question. It leads to NEW questions – aphorism.
The most important questioning is about the proliferation of questions: when we question the dialectic process (of questioning and answering), as part of the process, it tends to strengthen the process for the sake of the process. This stimulates economic growth, technological development, and artificial intelligence. It is not what I want. What I would like to see is that our line of questioning leads to a changed kind of meaning-making; a meaning making for the sake of human existence. This would reflect in a completely restructured kind of language. It is still early in my study, but I am not only certain it is possible, I think it would fit the human mind far better than the current very mechanical speech methodology. It seems to me ever since gaining language proficiency, humanity has never discovered how to use language properly.
Our current language fundamentally exists in the illusion of objectivity: for the sake of the emergence of new cosmic complexity, euphemistically called, innovation. As a result we are now on the brink of transhumanist posthumanism which equals human extinction. People are so solidly engaged, they think it is inevitable. I am skeptical. I see it from human existential perspective as abject ontological permissiveness (shamanism). I suggest the human answer is in something like adopting a human-existential subjectivity as the principle of our meaning making and language. It means we would for the first time actually speak as ourselves, instead of speaking subject to abstract principles and opportunistically shifting generalizations of what we then think is ourselves, and is anything but ourselves, but is machine.
What Is Intellectual Maturity?
Jun 11th
The maturity we gain, as we grow older, we think of as intellectual maturity. The development of intellectual maturity is a mechanical process unique to civilization and in tune with civilized organization. Primitive mind development was far more organic, in tune with nature. It was so extremely different, we cannot imagine the specifics.
As organizational processes evolved exponentially, they required human cognition to become completely adaptive. It required a structure for cognitive development open to the complete adaptivity of mythology and story telling. Developing intellectual maturity in civilization is now a lifelong process of acquiring successive, more inclusive stages of storytelling or fictionalizing. On this fictionalizing track, civilized minds at every level of maturity share the characteristic of being able to imagine and agree to anything held in the mind’s eye (objectively) to be real, because it is always framed in childlike faith (subjectively) in terms of more inclusive category. Subjectivity always frames objectivity. Even the most mature civilized minds cannot think of something as real without a metaphysical story, a construct of faith supporting it. It is this mechanical injunction on human minds that is the greatest atrocity of civilization.
Consciousness is Simple
May 24th
Human consciousness is very simple. We have a conscious sense of existence and we tell stories. The problem with universal existence, human minds and storytelling is this. If we do not deliberately tell the story that the storytelling is fictional, the default is to believe the storytelling. The default is to take the storytelling as existence.
This inclination is innate and not cultural. While our faith in shamanic mythology did provide existential connectedness prehistorically, the mechanical methodologies of the evolving organization have distorted it beyond all recognition. Humanity is now in abject submission to the overpowering evolving organism I call “The Drog.”
