ORGANELLE

∞ I have to encourage you to overtly befriend a living place. The whole history of it. And sit at its knee, and ask the questions. You want a teacher that is billions of years old and comprised of endless relationships and lives. If you really want to learn, befriend a living place. Then learn its languages. Ask the questions. And listen.

Note for later: Asteroids and Gunslingers… ( watch this space for future developments )

“Lots of people talk up a good game, but they can’t demonstrate anything at all. The don’t do what they’re talking about. And those are the people who, it seems to me, are always found looking for some exotic metaphysical puppet-horse made of impossible promises.”

— and I resemble them, too

It’s not a social network, it’s a lethally misguided corporation…

“Estrangement from oneself is acquaintance with the real.”

~ One who is neither and beyond

∞ If you have any idea how strange everything really is, you will realize that it is not possible to model it in the languages we possess and the ways we use them. You then realize that all previous attempts at this were catastrophic failures precisely because the difference between describing and participating is the difference between hubris and intimacy. Everything is really so vastly weirder than all of our suppositions, that intimacy is the only move that actually gets anywhere. Intimacy participates. Description simulates. Relation set opposite to abstraction.

∞ “In the psyche, the objects we relate with regularly become peoplized. That is, subconsciously, we begin to relate with them as beings rather than objects, even if this is not our conscious experience. This is part of why cellphones are so incredibly popular and profitable. They are experienced as symbionts, even though they are inanimate. Which means that they cannot be symbionts; but rather, must displace them.”

— infraheard

DVE – Deep vegetal empathy. The uncontrollable empathic response to the perception of vegetal suffering.

∞ “The metaphors of spaceflight are not about our species transitioning to space; rather, they are projections of what we are failing to become, do and understand about this world here, and the fact that we are inventing it. So far, this has been largely catastrophic. We need to achieve escape velocity from thousands of years of human social, ideological and relational hubris. We need to explore ‘the frontiers’ of our actual humanity and intelligence, frontiers long ago abandoned in favor of mechanisms, war, idiocy, and standing waves of something like the opposite of advancement masquerading as divine excellence. The frontier is here, together, now. Space will not rescue us from what we stridently failed to establish as intelligence, insight, nobility and true relation. Our species has the power to invite and invoke every manner of otherworldly intelligence … right here, now. This world is all the worlds, unless we burn it down while pretending interest in the rather obviously desolate worlds nearby. Spaceflight is about what we need to do within our minds and cultures, we need to achieve ‘escape velocity’ from a vast web of lethal habits and ideas, so that we may at once discover and invent our humanity, whose potentials lie not with individuals but with the contexts in which we may seek or establish our virtues… or their opposites.”

— an intelligence agent

It turns out that ( as I have been declaring for more than 20 years now ) cellular complexity is »unimaginably sophisticated, and the »search space required for protein synthesis and engineering is »staggeringly complex. We’re talking about something like 1 in 10 to the 70th power.

What are the »actual probabilities that such a process can happen ‘accidentally’ on the surface of the ancient Earth? Mathematically…

One scientist described this probability as the ability to locate a single elementary particle in a search space of 9 universes like our own.

Why should we presume the »least probable narrative for the origin of life? There’s effectively no evidence whatsoever for the view that it was a mechanical accident. Arguments? Yes, but poor in the face of the actual organismal structure, activity… and sentience…

“…the cell is an unbelievably complex bit of machinery—unfathomably complex and we haven’t understood its complexity at all! Every time we look there seems to be an additional layer of rebarbative complexity that needs to be factored into our theories don’t forget the the eternal goal is to explain the emergence of this complexity… and if we’re continually behind the curve because the complexity is increasing every time we look that eternal goal is also receding from view not approaching it’s receding it’s becoming more and more difficult to construct a theory for that…”

— David Berlinski