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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.
The Idiocy of Supernaturalism
Oct 29th
I assume that none of you believers in whatever wide variety of nonsense you believe in care that humanity is going extinct. Because whatever you believe in knows what it is doing and will save you?
As civilized minds in machine mind singularity we reject the notion that to base our purpose in our mortal human animal existence would be more spiritual and loving than believing in gods, unity purpose and everlasting life. Shamanic delusion causes us to think of our human animal nature and its mortality as profane. Transhumanists are the newest variety of a long history of human animals growing up to become helpless vestibules insane with the shamanic idiocy of religion. What is the greatest tragedy in the history of the human species? That transhumanists’ spiritual hope is in super machine intelligence as the natural progression of human intelligence AND that they refuse to understand that there cannot be benign natural selection in the future of the accelerating evolution of artiificial intelligence.
Violent natural selection has been behind the rise of shamanic mythological rubbish from the very beginning. Even though I realize that transhuman spirituality is the predictable continuation of a deeply established trend, I still cannot wrap my head around its idiocy.
Love Beauty Soul and Truth
Oct 28th
Neo-shamanism tells us we must get rid of our ego and blatantly claims we must merge with the Creator as co-creators as if it is the opposite of ego. Open your eyes, people! Neo-shamanism peddles the story that ego exists because of our dysfunctionality! But shamanism is our dysfunction as human organisms. It is our ego!
The shamanic message is 1) faith in the supernatural (ancestors, gods, devils, angels, creative spirit, unity consciousness, ~ immortality) and 2) faith in false symbolic reality. These are the roots of the organization/civilization or machine, and it has invaded us, body and soul. (“soul” here does not mean immortal soul) SOUL = our human goodness, which because of shamanism is now transmuted into the soul of the machine. The goodness civilized minds today think of as human, is actually nearly completely machine.
Love is existential. It is indefinable. We are not universal creativity. We are human animals. The machine-mind-singularity shamanic argument dumping on the human animal is the source of all human frustration and mental pathology. We human animals are mortal like all other animals. The shamanic myth of immortal soul is the nucleus of all cultural rubbish.
Love, beauty, soul and truth are human animal existence and dignity, subject to nothing and nothing can define it except human animal existence and dignity. Believing the opposite is the root of all atrocity and pathology and is driving us into posthuman (euphemistically called “transhuman”) technological singularity.
The universe does not give an expletive excrement about human life. In our corner of the universe, the power of the universe is machine, and it has so utterly taken over human minds, we actually identify ourselves as co-creative force; as universe! Our minds are machine-melted unconsciousness.
The universe exists. It does not give an expletive excrement about anything, humanity included. The infinite wonder of human-existential essence underlying abstractions like love, beauty, soul and truth is indefinable. The identification of our human essence as universe is utterly self-destructive. Posthuman technological singularity is the obvious result.
Singularity Atrocity
May 30th
Kurzweil’s logical sentences, like all logical sentences, are infinitely incomplete. His certitude makes him a liar for what happens to be the most powerful dynamic force in the human universe. Technology and AI.
The point of my previous paragraph is very clear to me. Maybe those who disagree have not considered that the “scientific mind” like Kurzweil’s imbues words with very definite meaning, while both the emotional concepts underlying them, and the world again underlying emotional concepts are wide open spaces where words have indefinable consequences. This means that Kurzweil with his logic does not have a clue what he is talking about. The brighter the ideological realist, the more delusional his speech. The most intelligent human minds today are undeniably infected with the most elaborate delusion. And artificial super intelligence can only lead to super idiocy.
I do not blame Kurzweil. He knows not what he is doing. That human minds are pervasively unconscious explains how this could happen. The actual dynamic is Kurzweil’s logic, for which he is very little more than a mindless conduit. Kurzweil logic actually claims we must expand the meaning of “human” to include the future world of super intelligence where there are no humans. It exposes his singularity transhumanism as a spiritual crusade for the open-ended evolution of artificial intelligence. Now listen to the YouTube recording again. Highly intelligent humans sound like they are reciting a mechanical chant. The fake precision in the meaning of the words keeps their minds on track like a gear running in place. They have no clue where the boat is going.
The singularity is an environment where human life cannot exist. That is why Kurzweil is a disciple for kafkaesque metamorphosis of human life: the acceleration of the ensuing debate preempts any effective human objection. He is wallowing in his own greed. Singularity in the Kurzweil industry is a cash cow now. The future? Adapt to it when it comes. He wants to make money now. He does not care about the future, because in the particulars, he subconsciously senses he has no clue what is going to happen, and whatever it is, he thinks it is inevitable. Kurzweil’s existential spirituality is cosmic. Forget human existence. Like a robot looking up at its god, he is in advance in awe of super intelligence. His story that we should consider such intelligence as evolved human intelligence is simply the tortured rationalization of a religious fundamentalist.
Kurzweil’s kind of mentality is an atrocity far greater than all wars and bigotry combined.
We Cannot Be Conscious! It Is Impossible!
Apr 14th
Futurists validate and rationalize our current future on a progressive technological path with all kinds of delusional arguments. One of the most delusional of these arguments is that science will help us find a way to live forever! Given the economies of scale, apart from it being locally or in closed system more productive, the exponentially accelerating evolution of science and technology also creates increasingly massively leveraged foot prints in our human environment. To live forever we’d also have to eliminate the unpredictability of the future at every level. To eliminate the unpredictability of the future will take some ultimate intelligence able to perceive the maximum determination in our existence, to manipulate it. What are the intellectual requirements? Human minds fall dismally short. That is the first objection. Not only do human minds fall dismally short, the progressive idealism behind the argument for scientifically enhanced everlasting life, goes along with a need for ever more powerful computers, bits and pieces of weak artificial intelligence now, creating an even stronger need for integrated or strong artificial intelligence later.
A rationalization that contradicts the one of everlasting life is that we will accelerate the evolution of our minds prosthetically. Mmmm. Super robot humans! Absolutely delusional also! After technological singularity, with artificial intelligence thinking on levels way beyond human comprehension, the competition between pseudo-human life and full machine life ensures the rapid eradication of any trace of human life. Is that not the equivalent of species extinction? Or am I supposed to think selectively, closed-system, like a specialist? And the fiction-driven fools proclaim everlasting life? And we believe them? Incredible! It sounds like a religion. Of course. The incredibly simultaneous validation is that we will then have died for something bigger than ourselves. In mf deed. This kind of thing, like faith in the actual existence of gods, has lead me to believe that humans are nearly completely unconscious, and that human animation is nearly completely conditioned response.
“Strange Fruit” Again, In Very Thin Analogy of the Lynching of the Young Human Mind
Apr 8th
… and civilization’s chronic tying down of our minds with walls and fences, tumbling humanity into Technological Singularity.
Now, imagine the actual human experience of peoples throughout history being subject to the kind of logic of the prevailing powers that be, of “the man,” that result in atrocity like the lynching of black people in the USA. Even the most haunting expression of horror like the poem, the song or its most sincere, most talented renditions, fall pathetically short.
Creativity, Imagination and Lies.
Mar 19th
Faith is an example of incompleteness of observation being transposed to mysticism. We do the same in science.The only useful application of logical systems is when we ignore Godel’s incompleteness, and rationalize it as that there is some inscrutable human element (sometimes called “creativity” or “imagination”) which overcomes this inherent flaw of mathematics. From wikipedia at Logic
“The work of Kurt Gödel has shown that no useful system of arithmetic can be both consistent and complete.”
Logical systems may seem to contain many sound, consistent and complete logical statements. Actually they cannot function without containing chronic distortion and suspension of soundness, consistency and completeness. This seen from outside the closed system, or from an open system perspective. That there is something inherently wrong with mathematics together with the vested observation that organizations seem to “work,” is not an indication of any human creative magic, but is an indication that humans have no clue what they are doing, and that they are so strongly submitted to the process, that they simply cannot afford to condemn it. Humans are energetically engaged with no clue what the consequences of their actions will be.
This ties in with the observation that change cannot occur without dynamic disequilibrium. For movement and change to occur the process must lean forward into the void of incompleteness and catch itself. Not doing so is stagnation into unity, or death. It is the nature of life that it animates. Now the question is, what life force drives humans? I say it is now most potently the life force of the machine and not a force of human life.
