Natural Selection: Survival of the Fittest....what?

1. Law of Stability

2. Replicator Replication (Genes DNA/RNA)(Can influence a trait & replicate) 

--------^^Redundancy^^-----

3. Error +/-/0 (Mutation)

  a. Spawn Rate

  b. Death Rate

  c  Replication Rate

  d.. Mutation Rate

4. Limited Resources (Resource factor)

--------^^Degeneracy^^------

Altruism benefits family members (w/ shared genes)(kin selection)

Sexual Reproduction only benefits the Sex gene (at expense of the rest)

Some genes aren't influenced by natural selection (can't affect meaningful traits)... so it's a random process (genetic drift)

Genes have no agency.  They can only affect one or many traits/ combined traits

Think of evolution at the level of the gene, not of the individual or group of individuals

Photons in Negative Time....

Boo! Happy Halloween!

Eat Your Ancestors, Monster!

 

I didn't do it!

Dance when the Sun Returns!

...And so they linked their hands and danced

'Round in circles and in rows
And so the journey of the night descends
When all the shades are gone

A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of our Lord's hand

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
And now returning back again
We bring a garland gay

We've been rambling all the night
And some time of this day
And now returning back again
We bring a garland gay

Living Life Between the Lines of the Algorithm

Substrate (Interface) Independent Algorithms.... hmmmmmm.

Freedom's (ala "Free Will's") Role in Motivation

Redundancy vs. Degeneracy

(NASA triple redundancy for Manned Space)

Degeneracy = intelligence?

Computational Functionalism by the backdoor?

Consciousness - The Space between the Algorithms?

Cogito is thus not a substantial entity, but a pure structural function, an empty place—as such, it can only emerge in the interstices of substantial communal systems"

-Slavoj Zizek

Quantum Thermodynamics & the 2nd Law

 

Harvesting Zero Point Energy time? 

War Psychologies

War is thus an Act of Force to compel our enemy to do our will"

-Clauswitz, "On War"

Michael Levin: Communicating with Solaris (An Imperfect G_d)

 

Intelligences ; Transmitters to G_d and User Interfaces (UIs) all the Way Down

On Neurotheology

Increasing the Bioelectric Field and Cellular Intercommunication through Prayer, Meditation, and Medication

Integrated Information Theory

Joining More Brain Cells Together into a Higher Bioelectrically Communicating Intelligence

Pristine Ideologies

The Commies are Coming!

The Problem of Waking in Finnegans Wake

Democrats Keep Killing Voters with Kindness...

Alienation Under Man and Technics

Bureaucracies Run Amok!

Technofeudalism - Rise of the 'Smart' Algorithm?

Excerpt from video above:

...from Chuang Su in 323 BC who said, "For security against robbers who snatch purses, rifle luggage and crack safes, one must fasten all property with ropes, locker with locks, bolter with bolts. For property owners, this is elementary good sense. But when a strong thief comes along, he picks up the whole lot, puts it on his back, and goes on his way with only one fear that ropes and locks and bolts may give way.

Banks, financial power, and government puppets:  It's the same with targets. If you have a target for the money supply or a target for the share price, it lets people predict what's going to happen next and they can start betting on it. And you've got the emergence of hedge funds which lay bets and become so powerful that even a government can say "we're going to ignore you". And this is a little bit of the problem we have. 

Max Weber distinguished between bureaucrats and leaders. The ethic for a bureaucrat is to do what the leader says. "Did you say 6 million Jews over here or did you say 5.9?" You know, you don't decide if it's right or wrong to send all these people over here. You just want to make sure you've heard the order properly. That's being an ethical bureaucrat. The ethics for a leader would be to make a decision they take responsibility for.

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“For when I speak of the banality of evil, I do so only on the strictly factual level, pointing to a phenomenon which stared one in the face at the trial. Eichmann was not Iago and not Macbeth, and nothing would have been farther from his mind than to determine with Richard III 'to prove a villain.' Except for an extraordinary diligence in looking out for his personal advancement, he had no motives at all… He merely, to put the matter colloquially, never realized what he was doing… It was sheer thoughtlessness—something by no means identical with stupidity—that predisposed him to become one of the greatest criminals of that period. And if this is 'banal' and even funny, if with the best will in the world one cannot extract any diabolical or demonic profundity from Eichmann, this is still far from calling it commonplace… That such remoteness from reality and such thoughtlessness can wreak more havoc than all the evil instincts taken together which, perhaps, are inherent in man—that was, in fact, the lesson one could learn in Jerusalem.”

― Hannah Arendt, "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil"

Fooled, Then Hypernormalised by the Inter-Face

Technofeudalism: aka Digital Face-ism

Feel Feel to Project ANY Meaning You Like Onto It.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

T. S. Eliot

On the Dupes & Non-Dupes of Faciality from Google AI:

An example of Jacques Lacan's phrase les non-dupes errent ("those who are not deceived are the most mistaken") is a cynic who refuses to be "duped" by social niceties and sees only the crude reality beneath. In doing so, the cynic "errs" or is misled, because they miss the symbolic dimension of fiction and illusion that structures social reality and makes coexistence possible. 

Meaning of les non-dupes errent

Les non-dupes errent is a pun that links the French for "the non-duped err" with "the Names-of-the-Father" (les noms du père). The phrase means that people who pride themselves on not being fooled by symbolic fictions—such as societal roles, morality, and language—are the ones who go most astray because they deny the fictions that organize social reality. A good "dupe," by contrast, understands that reality is ordered by these necessary illusions, a notion Lacan describes as being "duped by some real"

Process: Moving Beyond Representation

The Problem of Representation is the Dissolution of Identities.  What is the Process by which things come to be (Evolution/ Assembly Theory)

AI:  The Process of Dissolving Monolithic CULTURAL Identities

Every curated Individual Identity... a Museum so dedicated.  An Assemblage of Signifiers pointing to the Identity of a single 'authentic' individual advertising a profilicity of relationships/ roles for 'others'.

Why Hitler Started WWII, and Why You Weren't Taught About It.

National Socialism = Racial Socialism

Marxism = Class Socialism

Progressivism = Movement from a Class Based to a Race Based Socialism (aka - Anti-white vs Anti-Jewish) Identity Politics)

Capitalism is a tool of Individualism, not Socialism

It serves Individual/ Liberal, not Group/ State Collective Interests.  Of course today, Corporatism has significantly altered THAT dynamic.

Trauma? What Trauma?

The Nature of Trauma

Abundanza! The Future of Gendel III

h/t - Zwaremetalen239

from Google AI:

The politics of abundance is a modern political philosophy that advocates for prioritizing growth, innovation, and large-scale public investment to increase the supply of essential goods and services. It is presented as a progressive alternative to a "politics of scarcity," which proponents argue has stalled progress and created gridlock by focusing on redistribution and regulation. 

Core tenets and goals

The abundance agenda seeks to overcome what it identifies as a decades-long trend of artificially suppressed supply in critical areas, often due to regulatory hurdles and a focus on process over results. Its core goals include: 

• Expansion, not just redistribution: Proponents argue that focusing solely on redistributing existing wealth and resources creates zero-sum conflicts. Instead, they propose growing the total supply of key goods so that everyone can have more.
• Emphasis on building: A central theme is the need to make it easier to "build, baby, build" for a more prosperous future. This applies to housing, clean energy, transportation, and infrastructure.
• Liberalism that builds: The abundance agenda is often framed as a way for liberals to reclaim their identity as builders rather than just protectors. It suggests a hands-on government that creatively acts on public goals rather than being tied down by procedural checks.
• Technological innovation: It champions using technology and public investment to remove artificial scarcities, such as through large-scale clean energy projects and improved infrastructure. 

Key areas of focus

The politics of abundance has been applied to several policy areas, particularly in the United States:

• Housing: A central issue for the abundance movement is the national housing shortage and high costs, which it attributes to restrictive zoning and regulations. It aligns with the YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) movement, which pushes for more housing construction.
• Energy: Advocates call for removing regulatory obstacles to build more clean energy infrastructure, including solar, wind, and geothermal projects.
• Infrastructure: The agenda seeks to streamline processes for building public infrastructure, contrasting its approach with famously over-budget and delayed projects like California's high-speed rail.
• Healthcare and education: Beyond physical infrastructure, the movement also extends to expanding the supply of high-quality services in healthcare and education. 

Origin and recent developments

The modern abundance movement has gained significant attention following the 2025 book Abundance by New York Times columnist Ezra Klein and The Atlantic staff writer Derek Thompson. 

• Intellectual foundation: The ideas behind abundance have been developed by think tanks like the Niskanen Center, with roots in earlier critiques of regulatory stagnation by figures like Matthew Yglesias.
• Political momentum: The movement has rapidly gained traction, particularly within the moderate wing of the Democratic Party.
  • An "Abundance Elected Network" was launched in September 2025, involving over 120 lawmakers.
  • Prominent Democratic politicians like California Governor Gavin Newsom have echoed the movement's themes of building and innovation.
• Political polarization: Supporters believe the abundance agenda can appeal to voters across the political spectrum by focusing on growth and cost of living, while critics on the populist left have pushed back. 

Criticisms

The politics of abundance has drawn criticism from several quarters: 

• Ignores corporate power: Critics argue that the abundance agenda focuses too heavily on regulation while ignoring how corporate power and monopoly practices inhibit supply and innovation.
• Dismisses public input: Some have argued that the agenda risks dismissing the value of public input and environmental reviews in favor of faster development, potentially harming communities.
• Understated effectiveness: Critics point out that some policy prescriptions, such as zoning reform, may not lead to the sweeping changes that proponents promise.
• Repackaged neoliberalism: Some on the left view the abundance agenda as a rebranded version of neoliberalism that emphasizes deregulation and growth over addressing concentrated power. 

Actual Idealism: The Philosophy of Fascism

Giovanni Gentile's Actual Idealism

(aka - method of Absolute Immanence)

(aka - Totalitarian Positivism)

(aka - An 'Ethical' State)

Government (State) as Demiurgos (from Google AI)

"Demiurge" (or Demiurgos) is a term for a divine, craftsman-like creator figure, most famously from ancient Greek philosophy and various schools of Gnosticism, but also a character in modern fiction, like the DC Comics universe. The figure is responsible for fashioning the physical universe, though interpretations of its nature and motivations differ significantly between traditions. 

Philosophical and religious interpretations

• Platonism and Neoplatonism: 

  In these philosophies, the Demiurge is an artisan figure who crafts the physical world out of pre-existing, imperfect materials, based on an ideal, eternal form. 
Gnosticism: 
Gnostic texts present a more complex view. 
Many Gnostic sects portray the Demiurge as a lesser, vain, and ignorant creator who mistakenly believes himself to be the supreme deity. 
In this view, the material world is a flawed creation, a "spiritual prison," created against the will of the true, supreme God. 
Other Gnostics, such as the Valentinians, see the Demiurge as having good intentions but being ignorant of the higher, true God. 

Fictional interpretations

Michael Demiurgos (DC Comics): 
This is a powerful archangel figure who is the embodiment of God's power. He is the brother of Lucifer Morningstar and, alongside him, helped create the DC Omniverse. Unlike Lucifer, Michael is depicted as being loyal to God and creation. 
Video game: 
"Demiurgos" is the title of an upcoming strategy game where players take on the role of a deity to shape a world and outmaneuver other gods, notes Steam and Games Press. 

Etymology

The word "demiurgos" comes from the ancient Greek term Dēmiourgós (Δημιουργός). 
It literally means "craftsman" or "public worker" and was originally used for skilled artisans, doctors, and soothsayers, notes Fandom and Study.com.