zenophobia

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Backward in time
the plant explains
the seed explains
the earth explains
the water explains

Here and now
explains the map
Past and future
stand in reflection
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It is so easy to die
let your life to this moment go
and admit about this corpse
what you could never admit about
"yourself "
It is so easy to die
when you do it this way
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I am Philosopher


I am philosopher because I love wisdom
and I love the love of wisdom
and because i have taken the time to learn to
say and think loveOf* wisdomOf*


i am philosopher because i make no apologies
for seeking the truth above all things


i am philospher because everything i do
and learn and experience adds to one thing:
"what is this and how does it work?"





i am philosopher because i say so
because i look in every field, every art,
every image or movement for one thing


i am philosopher because i can tell the
difference between the sign and the signified


i am philosopher
i philosophize always


i am philosopher
because "people" hate me
i am a gadfly
i am hemlock
i am refusenik
and commie


i don't stop asking
expanding
including
reasoning

ever


i am


i am not disturbed by Godel
or Turing machines

computation is not at odds with philosophy


i am not at odds with Bayes


not only is "god" dead
god was never alive
nor any true believer in god


i am philosopher
full time


when i eat (what is eating, what is food)
when i shower (what is clean, what is running water, what is sensation)
when i dream - what i dream


i am philosopher in spite
of the puppet show called
culture

with planned stages like chickens hatched
and farmed each with chicken myths repeated
endlessly


in spite of colonies
and atavistic loyalties
in spite of stoogism

and impenetrable hypocrisy


i philosophize in the thick
of being right

i philosophize as the world prays
to walls and rocks and books and bosses and fathers and feelings
and mom

i philosophize against
against
against


fight-flight, punishment-reward, pain-pleasure, plus-minus....

these are the politic of Braitenberg vehicles
no room for philosophers in there




what kind of philosopher MUST know these things - must know de-sade and sartre
and soren and witt (in words and in pictures) and buddha?


what kind of philosopher MUST know about everything
that changes everything?!


"my kind' ...





What a racket there is each time an ape presents.
Each symbolic ape pulling the lever that labels
the specimen correctly - each receiving their treat


What monotony! Lifting the cup to their lips with
the same expression each time
laughing at the same place each time
voiding in the same place
and calling it "being at home".


"the first technology fed on superstition and fear
- it was called religion
the second was based on religion, and power
-it was called empire
the third was based on stupidity and cowardice and empire
-it was called self-preservation

the fourth was based on empire and self-interest and deceit
-it was called the middle class
the fifth technology was based on everything else"

What this blog is about (for now)

I believe the universe has all of the truth in it.

There is no "human" truth that is not already present in the lessons of reality. Every fact is a lesson, every type of fact is a theory and every constant is a principle, if we just look.

I realize that where I am is an evolving point in time-and-understanding, and that where I'm at, is not necessarily where you're at.
Years ago, I was at this conference and was thinking I was pretty hot. So I go to the bathroom and I'm standing there at the urinal and I see that someone had written something, like people do, usually something obscene, or "for a good time call..." - but this said:

I was you

It really hit me. That's something I would definitely be able to say to my self-from-ten-years-earlier...and ten years from now be able to say it to me now! - woah - I am the dumb previous self of me ten years from now....so through a glass darkly - but at least if not awake, waking up. Excellent adventure! Excellent!

Anyway, how to locate yourself in some type of consciousness space?
Here's what I'm starting with - if the (intuited) gradient of where you are is pointing at something like (could be a different topic or subject type as long as it's about the same level of complexity) carefully re-listening to the entire set of recordings that Miles Davis made with John Coltrane in order to understand details about the mechanics of mastery, (kind of like, "...you might be a redneck."), then you might be a neighbor.

If you are working to really understand what other fields have to teach you about understanding the most most advanced aspects of your field, then you might just be a neighbor. Basically, I'm saying, if we think our gradients are similar enough in terms of consciousness (with respect to increase in complexity) - then we're at (roughly) the same abstract point in space. I expect the terrain to be similar in complexity and diverse in phenomena.

Now if you can say "I was you" to me - I would love to hear from you - what's it like up there? What am I missing? How much time have I got doc?

Here are some more terms that seem to be highly relevant in this neck of the woods:

Consciousness and Reality.
The relevance of systems theory, computer science, math, physics, biology, chemistry,...., fine art, literature, ..., history, sociology, psychology, cultural anthropology, ... in daily conscious life.
Responsibility and morality as conscious acts.
Ontology, epistemology, and metaphysics.
Digital physics and digital philosophy.
The singularity.
Consciousness and Reality.

Here are some cool links
Quantum Consciousness
Stream of Consciousness
Universe as Computer

And of course, fractals are everywhere. I may even be you at a different angle of magnification.

The recursion is stated finitely and runs indefinitely. So cool, so deep....