Meet Me on the Dark Side...

...for the Eclipse!

Lee Cronin On Why AI Doesn't Stand a Chance..

Excerpt:

What Burgson said...actually I like it a lot because Instinct going into cognition gives you intuition. Intuition is the thing that you can't yet put into language very well, you haven't got there, but you've got this thing right?

On Becoming Thoughtless...

...thinking without the organizing structures of Language

@ the lower? (or higher?) levels in Hierarchies of Desiring Machine  IIT Assembly Identities?

Fading Communication Channels between Desiring Machines

Melancholia: Mourning in Advance without the Cure

...on Breaking off the Channels

Humans Begin Invading Asgard!

Hans-Georg Moeller: Religion and the Masses' Opiums

On Profilicity: The Secular Individual's Opium (...or better, Digital Ecstasy):

...Curating Our 'True' Online Self-Profiles with Profilicity  @@

...and altering the structures and flows of repression and desire within ourselves

Pondering the Post-Modern Self: On Cracking the Code!

...Where not even the real You can live up to Your Online Profile (the Advert for You the "Product"), because it's more real than real!  It's HYPER-real!

We're ALL Becoming Visceral!

Somehow, I don't think that this was what Nietzsche was going for when he described the emergence of UberMensch or  a 'G-d that could Dance'!  It's more like the post-Last Man!

The Late-Capitalist Discourse has progressed from issuing an imperative "injunction to Enjoy" to an imperative "injunction to experience perpetual Ecstasy"!

No wonder we're all so FOMO!  No wonder so many wish we could Sever our real Working Selves from Our Hyper-real Non-Working Lives

No Wonder Our Real Working Selves Burn-Out Supporting Our Non-Working Hyper-real Lives!

One of Elvira's Forbidden Stories...

...and an excerpt from the Jowett summary of  Plato's "Cratylus":

“Well, but I have just given up Protagoras, and I should be inconsistent in going to learn of him.” Then if you reject him you may learn of the poets, and in particular of Homer, who distinguishes the names given by Gods and men to the same things, as in the verse about the river God who fought with Hephaestus, “whom the Gods call Xanthus, and men call Scamander;” or in the lines in which he mentions the bird which the Gods call “Chalcis,” and men “Cymindis;” or the hill which men call “Batieia,” and the Gods “Myrinna’s Tomb.” Here is an important lesson; for the Gods must of course be right in their use of names. And this is not the only truth about philology which may be learnt from Homer. Does he not say that Hector’s son had two names—

“Hector called him Scamandrius, but the others Astyanax”?

Now, if the men called him Astyanax, is it not probable that the other name was conferred by the women? And which are more likely to be right—the wiser or the less wise, the men or the women? Homer evidently agreed with the men: and of the name given by them he offers an explanation;—the boy was called Astyanax (“king of the city”), because his father saved the city. The names Astyanax and Hector, moreover, are really the same,—the one means a king, and the other is “a holder or possessor.” For as the lion’s whelp may be called a lion, or the horse’s foal a foal, so the son of a king may be called a king. But if the horse had produced a calf, then that would be called a calf. Whether the syllables of a name are the same or not makes no difference, provided the meaning is retained. For example; the names of letters, whether vowels or consonants, do not correspond to their sounds, with the exception of epsilon, upsilon, omicron, omega. The name Beta has three letters added to the sound—and yet this does not alter the sense of the word, or prevent the whole name having the value which the legislator intended. And the same may be said of a king and the son of a king, who like other animals resemble each other in the course of nature; the words by which they are signified may be disguised, and yet amid differences of sound the etymologist may recognise the same notion, just as the physician recognises the power of the same drugs under different disguises of colour and smell. Hector and Astyanax have only one letter alike, but they have the same meaning; and Agis (leader) is altogether different in sound from Polemarchus (chief in war), or Eupolemus (good warrior); but the two words present the same idea of leader or general, like the words Iatrocles and Acesimbrotus, which equally denote a physician. The son succeeds the father as the foal succeeds the horse, but when, out of the course of nature, a prodigy occurs, and the offspring no longer resembles the parent, then the names no longer agree.

On the Death of "The Capitalist Discourse" Under "Late Capitalism"

....more on Capitalism's Tale of Unrequited Desire from the Physician

ps - the video author says that there are 2 sides in the battle.  There are WAY MORE than two.  She also doesn't seem to realize the nature of the "lawless" advancement of technology, that Technology typically precedes the Legal System and opens up new frontiers to be subsequently codified.  Law is a "lagging" indicator of social "progress".  And the division of labour long ago created a division of learning.  What else are college degree's and commercial/ professional licenses?  The question is more one of Intellectual Property and Proprietary Practices.