/lit/ - Literature

>>11830150

Just want to clarify here, that the self-awareness and intelligence of capital is ultimately dependent on the self-awareness and intelligence of human beings. It goes beyond it though because humans are like the cells that compose it. If it were to damage many of them, sure, it would suffer. In the name of efficiency though, it can throw out any humans who aren't serving its interests, whether that's a shitty CEO or a politician acting against Its interest.

Finally, a form of extereme self-organization has emerged in capital. Not only does it include and govern human productions, capital is accelerating human production. Why are humans spending so much effort in producing AI? It's interesting yes, but the fundamental reason is its profitability i.e. its ability to produce and move capital. What will happen when AI is the dominant force controlling stock markets and the flow of capital in the world? It's practically inevitable at this point, given the insane speed and mass application of AI through most domains of life. Then capital provided the main impetus for the creation and development of AI, which in turn will be the force producing the most capital very soon.

That is, Capitalism is a process for the creation of "artificial" superintelligence.

>>11758862
Krishna is a personalization of Brahman iirc

>>11758831
Nietzsche wasn't particularly systematic

>>11353104
the basic idea is that out of the noumenal nothingness that is the source of being, a point/singularity was first concentrated that contained all being within it en potential, and the logical forms that necessitate it

that is the top of the tree, Kether, the first singularity. out of this singularity emerge negative and positive potencies, the right and left pillars of the Tree: attraction and repulsion, singularity and dispersion, otherness and self-identity, activity and passivity, basically the interplay between Inside and Outside that is constitutive of boundaries and hence cellular membranes and hence life


from that point everything else necessarily follows, filtering down into concrete actuality at the bottom, Malkuth, which is the here-and-now, the room which you occupy and the self-given awareness you have of yourself as yourself. the point is to negate particularity and achieve an equilibrium between the need for the otherness that enriches but also threatens being with its alterity, and the need to consolidate oneself which, also, threatens the being with the inflexibility and inertia of a rigid self-concept

each sphere has geometric, gustatory, olfactory, mythological, philosophical, chromatic, etc. correspondences, pretty much everything finds its place either in a sphere or a path.


the tree appears hierarchical only for visual convenience, it would be better to represent it as a series of concentric circle emanating from a central absence: Ain, the primordial void

>>11246255
Not necessarily, 'cause then you're putting yourself in the awkward position of having to argue why Meister Eckhart, Boehme, and Weil were ackshually closet nihilists. Pro-tip: you can't.

God is a reification of Being, nihilism is a reification of Non-being. Mysticism does neither; it's precisely a de-reification of all conceptual structures.

A grasp of Zen emptiness here is crucial.

Don't confuse the majority of the posts in this thread for void worship.

>>10923767
This has been a really fascinating and informative read. I learned something today. Ain't philosophy fuckin' grand? Every thread in /lit/ should be like this thread.

>>10912807
Unfortunately, he didn't. I'd kill for an Evola book on the tarot of Tree of Life, but what're ya gonna do? However, I have no doubt in my mind he'd understand the Major Arcana as the states of consciousness they are meant to represent (the Fool is the unmanifest, the Magus is the first stirring in the Ain, etc.)

There are concrete rules and it is personal. You are the singularity of you, only you can know what is fullness and vacuity in you. But the rules to understand this are universal: mind-fullness, self-consciousness at all times. What fills you with life and love? What raises you up out of the ontological rat race? Go to it.