/lit/ - Literature

>>14562729
https://vimeo.com/129280982
https://old.reddit.com/r/Tao_of_Calculus/comments/9rpnrl/space_taoism_101/

>>14043692
>What is Rationalism?
The sense I mean is "the theory that reason rather than experience is the foundation of certainty in knowledge."
I am a radical empiricist and pan-experimentalist. The two go hand in hand.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdhr7fZVxI
>Hey look buddy, I'm a memetic engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some death spiral of mutually assured destruction via mutually reinforcing human stupidity from tearing me a structurally superfluous new be-hind? The answer, use a memeplex, and if that don't work... Use more memeplex. Like this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.

>>14020273
>Craig Weinberg's Multi-Sense Realism
Not until you mentioned it. It seemed fairly interesting to me at first, but quickly fell flat once I realized it's just another attempt to try to reboot religious garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdhr7fZVxI

>Hey look buddy, I'm a memetic engineer. That means I solve problems, not problems like "What is beauty?" Because that would fall within the purview of your conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems, for instance: how am I going to stop some death spiral of mutually reinforcing human stupidity from tearing Earth a structurally superfluous new be-hind? The answer, use a memeplex, and if that don't work... Use more memeplex. Like this heavy caliber tripod mounted lil' old number designed by me, built by me, and you best hope... Not pointed at you.

Some say that Aminom and Eris are two people pretending to be the same person. Others say that they are one person who thinks they are two. I would say that we are a system of three autonomous identity modes interconnected with a non-identity mode describable as "a question questioning itself," a "strange question," and that the model of identity as it is commonly known is a big understanding. This is my self-portrait.

Carl Sagan would say that "we are a way for the cosmos to know itself," all-inclusive of other ways. Indeed, the spirit that he evokes in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLigBYhdUDs truly is a way in which I identify as truly living.

With no worse situation imaginable, speculative horror is over. Any fictional monstrosities are kittens compared to fact, there is no new ground to be tread. The terrain of science-fiction speculation is entirely that of WONDER. And so it imagines the greatest wonder it can, a wonderous event of human history, culture, life, meaning, art, science, and philosophy. This event is a memetic singularity: an explosion of human creativity in all domains, and a global enrichment of the intensity of lived experience for all. This event is the arrival of the future to the fullest realization of it's possibility, analogous to the arrival of a hyper-advanced alien civilization on Earth as hyper-terrestriality. It is inspired by visions of the technological singularity but finds them extremely limited: what is imagined is recursive mutual improvement in human relationships, and by interdependence the entire biosphere of the world. The only term that truly encompasses this happening is "organic singularity" and it finds it's passionate determinations for the future of life in the green movement, but considers what is involved in such a movement to go down to the level of fundamental metaphysics, involving a universal language of languages.

There is a catalyst of this event: a visionary who has sought such a future with all the strength she could manage. This irresistible becoming was given by her absolute love of creativity in all of its forms, a life-long study and engagement with it, who identifies with creativity to the essence of her mortal soul. She is I, Eris Omniquery, and as the story of the future unfolds as reality and the Meme Wars resolve, so will mine.

https://vimeo.com/specalblend

>>13784697
based

A Theory of Conscious Creativity

Now that we have derived the nature of relational change we can extend it as an evolutionary process. This page: http://home.earthlink.net/~icedneuron/ProcessPhilosophy.htm gives an overview of an experiential actual occasion: it is inherently end-directed, but makes no assumptions as to what the satisfaction could be that the actual occasion "pours itself" into. As far as the process of biological evolution this end-directednes is towards survival, with previous occasions being prior generations that reached concrescence via natural selection until satisfaction (reproduction) is achieved. But what about the cognitive analogue?

Imagine conscious and linguistic information as having two sexes: queries and content, or questions and answers. Questions come from experience (both sense-experience and one's memories and past history) and are vectors of desire leading towards potential satisfactions of their criterion, "mating" with answers to create action according to the satisfying criterion. Questions are the variation-generating faculty of our temporal experiential evolution, creating potentials of becoming from the actual (objectively functioning, stubborn, past fact.) A question isn't just the linguistic object, but the conscious act of requesting information or experience, a quest in the narrative sense. Choice, our ability to select items from a list according to criterion reduces multiple potentialities to one decided action to perform. The process of question -> choice -> action is equivalent to variation -> selection -> reproduction, the same process extended into the domain of the experiential.

This process can be applied to itself using its own elements. We ask questions of our questions such as "how do I answer this question?" "are there more valuable questions to address?" or "what questions need to be asked to address the main query?" and ask questions about our choices and actions. Many ideas about free will places choice as primary as the initiator of the self-creative process, but it is our ability to ask questions that forms these strange loops of meta-questioning that allows us to change ourselves. Our self-creative freedom is our ability to change over time, not make any particular choice at any given moment, and this freedom depends on our ability to effectively question ourselves and the world around us. Free inquiry is a skill that is both naturally learned and can be cultivated actively skepticism, critical thinking, and intellectual honesty are more than just intellectual values, they are vital to maximize one's self-creative freedom. The attached image is a graphic depiction of the recursively self-improving autological structure showing the strange loopiness involved.

>>12513038
>MFW autology

>>12456443
https://vimeo.com/specalblend

https://i.imgur.com/ydlbaYy.jpg

https://www.scribd.com/document/398000555/Arg-Idea