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I Am A Strange Question

Hofstadter explores the idea of us being “self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages that are little miracles of self-reference” or strange loops of self-creativity. While powerfully describing this strange loopiness, he mostly focuses on the sense of “I-ness” of our identity. Following the model of process metaphysics, the being-self is this sense of “I am,” the story of the self, while the becoming-self is a question questioning itself which is co-creative with the being-self as a question is to an answer. As “A Day in the Park” describes, questions can be parasitized by self-imposing answers that bend lines of inquiry to replicate themselves, and it is no different with self-inquiry. Self-creativity is limited by a sense of self that resists change due to trauma and ultimately fear. This is expressed externally as absolutism: final answers that are holy and beyond question. The primacy of being in metaphysics is part of an ecosystem of informational parasitism with fundamentally flawed premises that give a strategic advantage to the colonization of agency by relationships and memetic structures that exploit vulnerabilities in human cognition.

Here's why process metaphysics is such a big deal and Whitehead is the greatest metaphysician who ever lived: it is impossible to be more meta, to talk about anything more generally. The "aboutness" of the relational / betweeness is itself relational, so "aboutness" of itself is included in the domain of the relational. We've found a domain of discourse that includes everything and cannot possibly include more.

Here's a paper that approaches this with category theory: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/2976/1/Heather_Process%20Categories.pdf

There's a Simpsons clip for everything: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GDC3u8k02c

Here's a basic explanation of process philosophy and how it relates to physics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Q6cDp0C-I8

This gives God no room to hide, but instead following the implications of process philosophy decribes an omnipresent aconscious creativity as inherent to the nature of change itself. It describes our conscious experience as an experiential meta-creativity that is literally "evolution evolved." The question mark becomes a holy symbol of unlimited creative potential, a symbolic representation of awareness and experience-reception itself. Everything is art, and a life is a precious gem of artistic experience.

>>5397916

Probably Godel Escher Bach. All those dialogues and riddles and self-reference.

Pic very much related.

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