Alchemy for Non-Alchemists
You're sailing softly through the sun
In a broken Stone Age dawn
You fly so high
I get a strange magic
Oh, what a strange magic
Oh, it's a strange magic
Got a strange magic
Got a strange magic
You're walking meadows through my mind
Making waves across my time
Oh no, oh no
I get a strange magic
Oh, what a strange magic
Oh, it's a strange magic
Got a strange magic
Got a strange magic
You know I got a strange magic
Oh yeah, I got a strange magic
Got a strange magic
Got a strange magic
Oh, I'm never gonna be the same again
Now I've seen the way it's got to end
Sweet dream, sweet dream
Strange magic
Oh, what a strange magic
Oh, it's a strange magic
Got a strange magic
Got a strange magic
It's magic
It's magic
It's magic
Strange magic
Oh, what a strange magic
Oh, it's a strange magic
104 comments:
Ya-a-a-awn.
\\...because to grok it, one would have to put a "limit" around it and study it and say "this (inside) which I have examined, is the infinite". That is how our language works, absolutes and unknowns only exist "outside" of it.
Yeah. You are right. That is how your misconception about language works.
Ya-a-a-awn.
You still cannot grasp difference between phenomenon and noumenon.
See.
You have read Leibniz and Kant... but do not get it. While I did not, but still can.
"Knowing FEW principles, sparing from need to know a lot of facts"
And... good suggestion from Google: "Power is something exercised, put into action, in relationships – an active relation rather than a possession or static state of affairs."
And go say that that is not Bright and Shiny Truthes. ;-P
There is no Sein in der Welt? Who knew? We are living in a simulation! @@
...for Power never fails to achieve its' objectives, it's never a weakness disguised as a power (in self-delusion from a "bright and shiny 'truth'").
Schopenhauer's was a critique of Kant. "The World as Will and Representation". And Nietzsche, a critique of Schopenhauer. "The World as Will to Power".
Do you know the Road to Larissa? Are your truths "knowledge" or "right opinion" (orthos doxa)? Because if they're merely the latter, you'll need some other kind of nails to keep your portraits of Daedalus from "flying away". Such is the "magic" behind Power. Why the 'hysterics' discourse differs from the 'masters' and why the 'university' discourse differs from the 'analysts'.
Such was the insight of Jacques Lacan, and 4 Discourse/ Language Theory
But of course, that's a "structuralist" (hierarchical) analysis, not a schizo-analysis (rhizomic).
...one that recognizes the "power' difference between the Master and his Hysterical subjects, the universities who interpret power for the hysteric to "reason" his Master's wishes, and for the Analyst to cure the resulting paradoxical complications for the Hysteric subject (aka split-or barred subject).
... for "Power is something exercised, put into action, in relationships – an active relation rather than a possession or static state of affairs."
Now go bury your physical "infinities" in monads with Leibnitz.
"Doxa" refers to a belief or opinion, particularly in a philosophical context, often contrasted with "episteme" which represents real knowledge based on reasoning. In religious contexts, doxa can also refer to "glory" or "praise," as seen in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Epistemes establish paradigms. New paradigms shift the Overton Window to update/evolve the epistemes. Normal Science-> Revolutionary Science -> New Normal Science. Each step expands the former's limits and lengthens humanities "cognitive light cone"
Reason was the Enlightenment's episteme (Kant) destroed by Nietzsche (an anti-philosophy). Psychology was another episteme developed by Freud, et al. Anti-Oedipus is a new episteme (Deleuze and Guattari) based in Schizo-Analysis "Anti-Oedipus" of master-based power-hierarchies"
By the way... linguistically, what are suns, stars, O-type stars, F-type main-sequnce stars, protostars, B-type main sequence stars, K-types main-sequence stars, A-type main-sequence stars, A-type stars, Be stars, red gianst?
Draw a line around each and describe what happens within that limiting line. THAT is how language works. SImple Systems analysis.
Now, is the line a noumena of phenomena?
erratum- or for of, above
None will admit that Modern epistemes are merely religious Doxa with the major arcana of G_d removed, and soley reliant upon minor arcana (material and power) relationships.
\\There is no Sein in der Welt? Who knew? We are living in a simulation! @@
And HOW you can distinguish? What is "real"? And what is "not real"?
While very definition of that "real" comes from culture. Culture that believes in truth be told from flaming bushes. %)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
And... by the way. Thank you for confirmation of my words -- that you dunno what noumenon is.
While our world. That same "der Welt" -- is a noumenon to us. By definition. ;-)
\\...for Power never fails to achieve its' objectives,
That. Is. Hella. Hillarious. :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Well. You know. You are right here. But... need I to point out -- in self-defeating way.
Power... really do able to "achieve its' objectives,"... BUT, only while that objectives reduced to just one -- self-preservation. ;-P
\\Are your truths "knowledge" or "right opinion" (orthos doxa)?
MY truthes it's a brick falling on your head, hammer hitting your nails. ;-P
\\Because if they're merely the latter, you'll need some other kind of nails to keep your portraits of Daedalus from "flying away".
Any first pebble taken from the ground will do. ;-P
Because of, you know, Law of Gravity. ;-)
Well. For it to fly away, there need to be big enough wind.
\\ Such is the "magic" behind Power.
There is only one ""magic" behind Power" -- fools that believe.
And well, there never shortage of fools. %-(((((
\\But of course, that's a "structuralist" (hierarchical) analysis, not a schizo-analysis (rhizomic).
Both are just elements of holistic meta-thinking systemic view. ;-P
\\...one that recognizes the "power' difference between the Master and his Hysterical subjects, the universities who interpret power for the hysteric to "reason" his Master's wishes, and for the Analyst to cure the resulting paradoxical complications for the Hysteric subject (aka split-or barred subject).
If only you'd be able to see and call em in their REAL names.
Hysterics -- that's female brains.
Analysts -- male ones.
;-)
\\Now go bury your physical "infinities" in monads with Leibnitz.
Both. Are figments of YOUR mind.
"monads", I even did not mention here.
And "infinites"? I never stated that there ARE one. OUR World are FINITE. Our bodies are finite. Our thoughts -- finite too. Circling around same and same symbols, mumbling same words.
That's why I (trying to) do not think in words. ;-)
\\By the way... linguistically, what are suns, stars...
Linguistically?
Just a puffs from your mouth. Dribbling of your fingers.
They are meaningless... like a price tags on the shelves of supermarket after Black Friday. ;-P (you know, when things they was attached to -- sold)
\\SImple Systems analysis.
Yap.
Just a first step of Meta-System, Holistic Meta-Thinking. ;-)
\\Now, is the line a noumena of phenomena?
Depend on, on what level of meta-thinking you look at it. ;-)
If you discuss it "linguistically", like here. That is loosy phenomenon -- phenomenon of your perception.
If... as I suggest, to look at it from meta-level -- that is more like noumena... as part of much bigger Reality.
\\Epistemes establish paradigms. New paradigms shift the Overton Window to update/evolve the epistemes. Normal Science-> Revolutionary Science -> New Normal Science. Each step expands the former's limits and lengthens humanities "cognitive light cone"
That's... just words.
Yawn.
\\Reason was the Enlightenment's episteme (Kant) destroed by Nietzsche (an anti-philosophy).
BS.
Babbling is Anti-Babbling? :-)))
\\Psychology was another episteme developed by Freud, et al. Anti-Oedipus is a new episteme (Deleuze and Guattari) based in Schizo-Analysis "Anti-Oedipus" of master-based power-hierarchies"
Just more babbling. Yawn.
\\None will admit that Modern epistemes are merely religious Doxa with the major arcana of G_d removed, and soley reliant upon minor arcana (material and power) relationships.
Whatever.
How anthropocentric.
There is no Universe, no materiality, there is only my mind....
Cogito ergo sum. And all other cogito's are products of mine.
Meanwhile, in the real world...
The concept of a transcendent reality, to software programmers, is so passe... there is no hardware, everything is software! Godel must have been on shrooms.
It's trippy being trapped in a Hilbert Space, never reaching an exterior Banach Space.
I'll tell that to the Russian drone operator that has your head in its' crosshairs.
But hey, at least you won't really be dead, the entire Universe will simply cease to exist. I'll cease to exist, for there is no Welt other than in the image in your head. Does the Russian drone operator know that if he drops the grenade, he'll cease to exist? A rational actor wouldn't commit suicide like that, would he?
I normally bite my nails. But then again, I am a bit of a dancing fool...
Wind breaks the laws of gravity. Good to know.
...and so non-believers can't be influenced or affected by Power. Good to know.
As they say, “The mother of idiots is always pregnant”--Italian proverb
...and yet as two different, yet holistic systems, there is a certain "comparative" transcendence... like with audio systems, a Left Speaker and a Right Speaker when played together result in a surrounding "stereo" 3-D experience.
But then I'm more a visual kinda guy, call me Polyphemus, even if that means "Many Voiced" (Very famous). Or as Benny Hill would say, "Old one eye"
Gee, what do I do with these two brain hemispheres. Is the stereo sound in my head coming from my Left hemisphere or the Right? On which side is the "difference" calculated? Which side is "dominant" for audio? For visual? Does the structure of the brain matter? Can I understand "where" the sound is coming from otherwise? What does it "mean"?
If only there were a dialectic to help me understand and give these concepts a Yin-Yang style mean-ing.
...a deeper, less superficial and "shallow" one. Through "Difference and Repetition" (D&G).
So what is Master and University brains? hermaphrodites and eunuchs?
Your reptilian hind brain or mammalian mid-brain?
Have "visions"?
The benzene ring dream refers to the iconic tale of chemist August Kekulé, who reportedly had a dream of a snake seizing its own tail, which inspired him to envision the structure of the benzene ring. This vision, where the snake forms a closed circle, is believed to have helped Kekulé understand the hexagonal ring structure of benzene, with alternating single and double bonds, according to a blog post by The Calculated Chemist.
psychedelics?
Yet as nuclear fusion factories they can produce different types and quantities of elements, or can be "known" to be the sources for them.
Certain symbolic qualia. Prices are more for the sake of Herbert Marcuse's "One Dimensional Man".
;)
So you're a Platonist. Theory of Forms. The Soul's "recollection" (of a newly recognized memory pattern) from when it was "part" (monadically speaking) of that "bigger reality" (Big Other).
When all you have is a hammer... everything looks like a nail.
"The Gay Science". The Four Great Errors.
The Four Errors. Man has been reared by his errors: firstly, he saw himself always imperfect; secondly, he attributed to himself imaginary qualities; thirdly, he felt himself in a false position in relation to the animals and nature; fourthly, he always devised new tables of values, and accepted them for a time as eternal and unconditioned, so that at one time this, and at another time that human impulse or state stood first, and was ennobled in consequence. When one has deducted the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted humanity, humaneness, and "human dignity".”
Anthropocentrism.
Reason sets man apart... @@
Enlightenment in the Age of Reason.
Stop looking externally for "enlightenment" (cosmology/physics). Look into the "inner" Hilbert Spaces of the mind. It's formal structures, neurology, and neurochemistry. This will explain EVERYTHING!
How many brains did Freud dissect in France to come up with THAT idea? His anti-scientific "Theory of Everything"?
Oedipal Hierarchies. Everything is Sex. You want to sleep with your MOTHER, Oedipus!
The "Pleasure Principle"...(Eros)... only leading to "The Death Drive" (Thanatos) much later, to explain those nasty non-pleasurable motivations.
For Every Yin needs its' Yang.
We keep forgetting Godel. *sigh*...
Kant's 3 "Critiques" should have given us a clue... as to Man's limitations, at least. But no worries, AI will discover as "general" SUPER-intelligence and ChatGTP us all of Honest Annie and Golom XIV's solutions. @@
Now where did I put my quantum computers...???
I've got some U/D/T/B/S/C quarks to analyze.
Quantum Computing and QCD:
Researchers are exploring the use of quantum computing to tackle QCD calculations, particularly those that are difficult to solve with classical computers.
For example, algorithms are being developed to calculate the energy levels of QCD systems.
Quantum computing can potentially offer a way to overcome some of the challenges in simulating QCD.
You know, "Math Magic" to perform!
Strange Quark Magic! ;p
...or perhaps one of Roger Penrose's forbidden symmetries... from a "Penrose tiling". So much for D&G's "Difference and Repetition". @@
\\-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
\\How anthropocentric.
Well... I'm an ἄνθρωπος. ;-P
\\There is no Universe, no materiality, there is only my mind....
Yeah. ;-P And there's NO bricks daring to fall on your head and hammers daring to hit your nails. ;-P
Bu-ga-gah!
\\Meanwhile, in the real world...
In real world happens any and all kinds of shit. Yawn.
Yeah... you confirming and repeating MY point -- MY Brick Falling on a Head TEST.
Yawn.
Kudos. ;-P
For admitting Reality. (well, it seems that wars exist exactly for that -- for thinking delirious minds of homos... not very sapiens, with Reality... yawn)
Hah... is there winds, in a space clouds of gas... which are not bond by Gravity.
Hah.
Not by power... but by crowd of believers with torches and pitchforks, ready to lynch any first one not ready to show piety.
Yawn.
Well... that is evolutional reason to exist for fools -- strength in numbers.
The more fools gether together and around, the more powerFOOL that crowd became.
Yawn.
See??? There NoTHiNG esoteric in it. Yawn.
\\\\But of course, that's a "structuralist" (hierarchical) analysis, not a schizo-analysis (rhizomic).
Both are just elements of holistic meta-thinking systemic view. ;-P
April 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
\\-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
...and yet as two different, yet holistic systems, there is a certain "comparative" transcendence... like with audio systems, a Left Speaker and a Right Speaker when played together result in a surrounding "stereo" 3-D experience.
You... Gotcha.
Only... why you every time trying to make believe that you do not? ;-P
And well... imagine if in addition to that bina-urality... with which you'd be only just like that mole in the ground. Using it to eat some fresh and juicy worms.
One can have bina-ocularity. And ability to see in other spans of spectre. From hawks eye distance.
\\...a deeper, less superficial and "shallow" one. Through "Difference and Repetition" (D&G).
Knowing few principles, spares from knowing many facts.
;-)
Go start with Anthropology 101 class. ;-P
Yawn.
Truthes of old times... grow incorrect, and even wrong... with time.
Yawn.
Yap.
You gotcha.
That's why it's better to have (and use) more instruments in your toolbox. ;-)
And try to INCREASE their number.
\\-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
"The Gay Science". The Four Great Errors.
The Four Errors. Man has been reared by his errors: firstly, he saw himself always imperfect; secondly, he attributed to himself imaginary qualities; thirdly, he felt himself in a false position in relation to the animals and nature; fourthly, he always devised new tables of values, and accepted them for a time as eternal and unconditioned, so that at one time this, and at another time that human impulse or state stood first, and was ennobled in consequence. When one has deducted the effect of these four errors, one has also deducted humanity, humaneness, and "human dignity".”
\\Anthropocentrism.
Yeah.
Illusions plaguing our mind overflowing with cultural shit.
Yawn.
\\Stop looking externally for "enlightenment" (cosmology/physics). Look into the "inner" Hilbert Spaces of the mind. It's formal structures, neurology, and neurochemistry. This will explain EVERYTHING!
Bleh. :-)))
"Go believe in OUR GA-A-AWD!!! Only through faith in HI-I-I-IM!!! You'd know how HE-E-E-E... explains EVERYTHING".
Bu-ga-gah!!! %-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Another word... "come and educate yourself in our Shiny Bright Theory of Phlogiston". ;-P
And... "even DO NOT dare to look in direction of, to devise yourself... ANY OTHER theory!!!!!! HEATHEN!!! HERETIC!!!! ti-ti-ti-Trump!!!"(sound of flaming torches and pitchforks)
:-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
\\We keep forgetting Godel. *sigh*...
Naaah.
You keep mentioning him... in relation to things he have nothing in common.
Yawn.
But. Well. That is how our brains. And our language. And our World. Works.
Yawn.
Just piling up more loosy analogies and shallow correlations.
\\-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
Kant's 3 "Critiques" should have given us a clue... as to Man's limitations, at least. But no worries, AI will discover as "general" SUPER-intelligence and ChatGTP us all of Honest Annie and Golom XIV's solutions. @@
Yeah.
You gotcha.
Culural illusions. Plaguing your mind, because of over-poisoning by Hollywood. ;-P
Illusion useful for those who are in power. Idea that there no need to work up your mind, trying to devise new ways.
Because... only in such a way there'd be NO challenges, no questions directed at power wielders.
Only crowd of zombie-like acolytes, roaming in a dreamy state. Lead by moronic zealots, repeating endless meaningless mantras. For their own benefit (like DiBi... or, you can add your names to that list).
Yawn.
Are you trying to play moronic zealot... to me? ;-P
To make me your zombie-like follower? ;-P
\\Now where did I put my quantum computers...???
Yeah.
YET ONE cultural fatamorgana.
Yawn.
\\You know, "Math Magic" to perform!
Yeah.
If yo... one are fo... ehm, not educated enough... everything looks like a magic to yo... to one.
Yawn.
Posh-Posh by Gosh!
It's St. Tammany's Day!
Kawanio che Keeteru, Q!
Sorry. I am thousand years too early to share your such cultural affections.
:-(((
Same as you do.
That's... too intimate.
Z-z-z-z-z-z!
Like Cosmic rays? Subject to electromagnetism? Gravity is the weakest force. And perhaps Dark matter/energy (theoretical axions may transition between cosmic rays/ photons?)
As Nietzsche says, ""What? You search? You would multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeros!""
...become hecatoncheires...
Yes, distance decreases the associated paranoia... the same is true of an "ideological" distance... not to see as the close-up fundamentalist, but from afar, "ironically". Like your "ovo" project... ;)
Acting soley on principles also forces one into a hierarchy of principles... where every problem's answer is "you wanted to have sex with your mother" and therefore "ignoring" the many factual details that the analysand may present to you.
...trapped into rejecting details if they are the needle in the haystack that the analyst (subject supposed to know) is searching for to say, "Aha! THAT is what the wolves in the trees of your dream means!" (Freud's Wolfman).
The Master has no bureaucrats, mandarins, or harem guards? He must be like Argus, many eyed; of the peacock throne.
...but the cheesecake at Lindy's get's better and better! ;p
...so long as you can still see the forest, for all the trees.
...especially the Western post-colonialism related guilt-pride
I need a volcano to throw all the heretics into...
If I wanted followers, I'd be seeking zeros. Or maybe "ones and zeros" (AI). @@
And if you're over-educated (and over-capitalized) all you need is a bigger calculator. A sharper pencil just won't do...
lol! Yes, we gotten much too close. I know soooo much about you. You 1,000 years in the future. Me 1,000 years in the past.
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