Divination should be a way of knowing again. Art makes this possible, I suspect as we can access more than we are capable of understanding. Creativity is an ontological primitive.
Wonderful read! I wonder about the tention implicit here between mono and polytheism. It is more troubling then i had first thought, and its making its case more tangible with 'woke' culture as its most abtuse menifest. From Hillman to Noah Harari, the post modern is almost inevitably inclined to the polytheistic stand for a semblance of spirit in life (while most reject even that). At heart it is a dangerous reactionary move, crippling the ego - i find to be weaker when big - while empting the meaning out of our most intuitive resistance to the sick and ugly and preverce. I wonder what your thought are about it.
Interesting...I hadn't thought much about the tension between mono/poly but it's definitely there. I guess in my mind (this probably isn't obvious from what I wrote) writing about the AI godling was metaphorical - I have no sense of whether we are looking at one god-like AGI in the future or an entire pantheon, but regardless I think my point (whatever that is) still stands.
I see your point but metaphors are not so inocent as they used to be (or were they ever?), and your extensive reffrences to classical myth is alighned with the kind of imagination that is so imbeded in our polymorphic/polyidentity/polyamorious post-modern charecter, where any and all refferance to God or an unknown must be masked with a metaphore. The monotheistic imagination about AI, in starck contrast, seems to lead us to armagedon as its inevitable conclusion. But the diachotomy is only borne out of a kind of mind that can not house both modes as completing opposites. The AI question might be incidental to the kind of imagination one holds, while the actual future be surprising and confusing for both.
"“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world.” (Hermann Hesse)"
I am allergic to symbol. Ayn Rand sees a cigarette as symbolizing the light of the mind, of ideas. Sez you.
A cigarette just makes my fur stink.
You are a true mantis with metis.
Divination should be a way of knowing again. Art makes this possible, I suspect as we can access more than we are capable of understanding. Creativity is an ontological primitive.
Fuckyeh
Wonderful read! I wonder about the tention implicit here between mono and polytheism. It is more troubling then i had first thought, and its making its case more tangible with 'woke' culture as its most abtuse menifest. From Hillman to Noah Harari, the post modern is almost inevitably inclined to the polytheistic stand for a semblance of spirit in life (while most reject even that). At heart it is a dangerous reactionary move, crippling the ego - i find to be weaker when big - while empting the meaning out of our most intuitive resistance to the sick and ugly and preverce. I wonder what your thought are about it.
Interesting...I hadn't thought much about the tension between mono/poly but it's definitely there. I guess in my mind (this probably isn't obvious from what I wrote) writing about the AI godling was metaphorical - I have no sense of whether we are looking at one god-like AGI in the future or an entire pantheon, but regardless I think my point (whatever that is) still stands.
I see your point but metaphors are not so inocent as they used to be (or were they ever?), and your extensive reffrences to classical myth is alighned with the kind of imagination that is so imbeded in our polymorphic/polyidentity/polyamorious post-modern charecter, where any and all refferance to God or an unknown must be masked with a metaphore. The monotheistic imagination about AI, in starck contrast, seems to lead us to armagedon as its inevitable conclusion. But the diachotomy is only borne out of a kind of mind that can not house both modes as completing opposites. The AI question might be incidental to the kind of imagination one holds, while the actual future be surprising and confusing for both.