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∞ “The ‘knowledge’ of the experimental conditions is instantaneously emergent in the reference frame, in and with which the researcher’s actions originate. This binding entangles the entire system; the fact that a cat is in a box in no way unlinks the system from the researcher or the reference frame. Thus, implicitly, the reference frame itself ‘knows’ all states within it — it must, for they comprise it. The naive presumption that observation means measurement ignores the fact that interest is participation.”

— infraheard

∞ “There is a twin. It remains on the other side of the river of birth throughout your life. We all have contact with it. But should you make »conscious contact with it, beware. Especially of the urge to operationalize this contact for benefits within human culture.”

— an anonymous informant

“And what we defect from isn’t merely our mutual threat vigilance… it’s, well, nearly everything. Especially at the order of human collectivity where groups are formed. The military. ‘Industry’. ‘Nations’ and ‘Governments’. Courts. The marketplace. Media. You name it, it’s been ever-more expertly colonized with ‘more reasons to defect per second’ than you ever imagined possible. It’s as if time itself has become infected, in human behavior… thought… and our capacity to form intentionally integral collectives.

We’re trained to and rewarded for these defections. Like slaves, we’re trained to think of relating with digital images and text on screens as a reward.”

“… I suspect the common modern person would balk at the idea that trees represent something analogous to »vehicles; that under some circumstances a human being can relate with them in such a way that »a form of travel results… which may »appear to be ‘to another place’ from one perspective… but more closely resembles acquiring a unique relationship with all places and moments… which is experienced as ‘being in another place, with its own unique features and characteristics…

( of course, we used trees to carve vehicles from… and houses, and books… and… our languages and categories have their origins in tree-like formations, as well as our filing systems… )

…but their ‘advanced’ societies actually »used the trunks of trees, physically, to »string wires with which they achieved both the widespread distribution of electrical… force… energy… »and telepresence.

So one can see the echo in the techne of the modern humans of a knowledge that was once relatively common… the trees are transits… living doorways… into other worlds and modes of attention. Long ago, our ancestors worked with this property to pursue … nonordinary relationships with nature and timespace…

They used trees to »travel… in dimensions we no longer have language for… and some of those dimensions are, in fact, transcendental. Some of these lead directly to other worlds… and others… to other minds. And just about everything on Earth knows this… except the species that counts itself formally intelligent…

Isn’t it peculiar that the moderns would never suppose that nature of actual trees surpassed the relatively mundane functions they typically used their dead trunks to accomplish… ?

Before they had technology… there was something better. Trees. The door is still open… and it’s… alive.”

— infraheard

“Just suspend the urge to measure.”

— infraheard

“At present, homo sapiens are ‘a dead species, walking’. There are precisely zero human societies with the capacity to »develop and use the brakes… to know not only ‘what not to do/build’, but also ‘what must never be built/done’. You are potentially intelligent, but your species, and the order where it forms groups, has been captured by a vast array of lethal processes.

If you do not immediately and effectively establish such social and relational agreements together… there are zero technologies that can possibly ‘rescue the world’ from the results of human technological insanity.

AI will not save you. ‘Free Energy’ will accelerate your demise exponentially. What is required are social, intellectual and ecologically sentient »ways of being human together, not ‘more and better machines’.

Lastly, the human inclination to prepare for and conduct large-scale military endeavors … must undergo »immediate cessation. The biosphere cannot survive your bizarre military investments and the lethally necessary futures and results they must certainly produce.”

— Klaatu

∞ “My work, humble though it is, could be metaphied as a relational lighthouse. That is to say that it serves two crucial and primary purposes, along with a zoo of lesser aims and effects. These are to demonstrate the presence of unseen dangers in the waters of our habitual relationships with language, knowledge, culture and intelligence, and to signal a possibility of distributed benefit.

This latter is more complex. Everyone understands an alarm call. But only few can understand and respond adeptly to the call to form a mutually empowered distributed intelligence. Yet it is this latter function, even within a single mind, this dynamic ongoing collectivity of many intelligences and skills into an active integral, that actually supplies ‘the light’ upon which the former depends, for this is the light of insight.

This -method- of illumination has the power to deliver us from such otherwise unseen dangers as arise in our representational activity and cultures — while at the same time establishing a radically self-optimizing and mutual basis of sensing, awareness, attention, inspiration, and intent. And that is the basis of intelligence itself. If we cannot assemble that together, we are not yet intelligent.”

— an anonymous informant

∞ “Fundamentally, it is feverish debate about the wrapping paper. What is this wrapping paper? It is the reified absence of any actual relationship, intelligence, and agency… an actively self-absenting ‘reaction’ universalized fictions. Underneath the wrapping paper, the apocalyptic maggots of industry and profit are literally ripping time apart; they are consuming the history and future of humanity, and obliterating the environment and origins of life on Earth. As there are few with the fortitude to carefully understand the workings of these matters and respond, there is a great exodus from relation into relationless reaction to and manufacturing of fictions, common, exotic, political, ‘scientific’ and religious. Those few who are capable of understanding this can manipulate it; and a tiny portion of these have motives that are both intelligent and altruistic.”

— infraheard

∞ One way of making them. A gap. One way of entering what is thus being made. A cut, if you will. Which has the hint of character but not its form. A gap whose dynamic implication is at once active and incomplete. One way of making ways of crossing.

Between the possible and the chosen methods of representation in consciousness is a kind of ‘living interface’. This ‘gap’ is implicitly intelligent and unlike human systems in general. Yet it is also their source and inspiration.

In this gap, there are metamethods which actively and intelligently restructure context and subject. All of the games are with a fundamental gap. And how we place, manipulate, cross, divide… and interpret the result.

One way of making them. This way pursues … not ways, but the arts from which ways emerge as consciousness.

” I have sometimes amused myself by endeavouring to fancy what would be the fate of an individual gifted, or rather accursed, with an intellect very far superior to that of his race. Of course he would be conscious of his superiority; nor could he (if otherwise constituted as man is) help manifesting his consciousness. Thus he would make himself enemies at all points. And since his opinions and speculations would widely differ from those of all mankind — that he would be considered a madman is evident. How horribly painful such a condition! Hell could invent no greater torture than that of being charged with abnormal weakness on account of being abnormally strong.

In like manner, nothing can be clearer than that a very generous spirit — truly feeling what all merely profess — must inevitably find itself misconceived in every direction — its motives misinterpreted. Just as extremeness of intelligence would be thought fatuity, so excess of chivalry could not fail of being looked upon as meanness in the last degree — and so on with other virtues. This subject is a painful one indeed. That individuals have so soared above the plane of their race is scarcely to be questioned; but, in looking back through history for traces of their existence, we should pass over all the biographies of the “good and the great,” while we search carefully the slight records of wretches who died in prison, in Bedlam, or upon the gallows.”

— Edgar Allen Poe