GWF Hegel, "The Phenomenology of Spirit"
The "World Spirit" on Horseback - Reason defined as "Historical Necessity Working Itself Out". Absolute Spirit as the Rational State (and the End of History)
“I saw the Emperor (Napoleon)– this world-soul – riding out of the city on reconnaissance. It is indeed a wonderful sensation to see such an individual, who, concentrated here at a single point, astride a horse, reaches out over the world and masters it.”
― Hegel's "violence of the negative" refers to the concept that conflict, negation, and violence are not purely destructive but are necessary, active forces that drive historical and dialectical progress. This "negative" element is what allows for the development of new ideas, consciousness, and freedom by destroying or negating previous, limited states. It is through this process, including the confrontation with "the negative," that being is transformed into a higher, more complex synthesis, ultimately leading to a more developed understanding of reality and self-consciousness.
Immanentize the Eschaton! ?
What Would an Historian Like Arnold Toynbee Say about an End of History?
Ya-a-awn...
ReplyDeleteI never read Hegel before. Now I see the fallacy. He believes that progress is rational. Evolution isn't rational.
DeleteIt can only seem "rational" with Epimethean hindsight (as in the Greek myth of Prometheus).
DeleteDeduction, not induction. The fool leaps over the rope walker, who then falls to his death. (Nietzsche, "Zarathustra") welcome to the village of the Motley Cow. Permit me to return to chewing my cud, for my digestion is both slow and poor.
DeleteIrrational desperation (as in a war for continued existence) isn't a factor. The Hegelian Master-Slave dialectic (in video). The master is willing to risk death, the slave is not. The slave eventually turns the tables (of values) on the master.
Delete...and so the "cycle" of history (Ixion's Wheel) revolves.
DeleteYou see this, Ukrainian. America is full of slaves no longer willing to risk death. She is, therefore, no longer a "master".
DeleteWhat you don't see is that most Americans would risk death for a chance to become a Master again, but they will not be Spartan Helots. Our "masters" do not honour their promises. So we do not follow them. We trust only in "acta non verba' now.
DeleteItalian Proverb - "Alexander never did what he said, Caesar never said what he did".
Like the helots of yore, Americans (and most of the world's inhabitants) are cloud serfs, tied to the net and serving our cloud vassals (corporations) and cloud lords (tech billionaires).
DeleteThe Spartans enured themselves to pain and suffering, but could not resist the temptations of luxury and pleasure... which eventually led them to work for Persian kings in return for both.
DeleteMeden agan!
DeleteTime for an American Anabasis? Perhaps.
Delete//I never read Hegel before. Now I see the fallacy. He believes that progress is rational. Evolution isn't rational.
ReplyDeleteThat's because his(your?) definition of "rationality" is weak.(e.g. not based on technological POV)
So what's yours? Locks with keys? Locks on a bridge with keys thrown into the Seine?
DeleteIsn't it obvious, that that definition depends of mind... and what techniques(techs? ;-) that mind using?
DeleteWhich you will only be able to test once you encounter it (not in advance) And you won't discover what works (and doesn't) a posteriori..
DeleteCan you RNA produce it? If not, Kairos is not coming.
DeleteYou're going to need to bring a key factory with you when you encounter it.
Deleteerratum a priori.
Delete//You see this, Ukrainian. America is full of slaves no longer willing to risk death. She is, therefore, no longer a "master".
ReplyDeleteWhatever.
As you say -- acta non verba.(when time will come)
Yawn.
Nope. No incentives... other than boredom relief.
DeleteUntil...
DeletePS We did agreed on that matters, isn't it?
yep. Lindsay has until next November to persuade DJT. That's when Kairos runs into Russia again.
DeleteYawn... until Pearl Harbor 2.0
DeleteSometimes he does circle back...
DeleteYou have a one year window with DJT.
DeleteThen its' gone for 2 more years.
Delete//Like the helots of yore, Americans (and most of the world's inhabitants) are cloud serfs, tied to the net and serving our cloud vassals (corporations) and cloud lords (tech billionaires).
ReplyDeletePft!
Laugh a-while you can... mb!
Delete:P
Delete//I... about facts. You... about some thought(fool|less?)... ehm, figments.
ReplyDeleteNovember 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
Co-evolution. ;)
November 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
Even if assembly steps are required. ;P
Hah... and do you have a tech to reproduce that steps??? ;-)
It's simply a question of having the right ingredients in your toolbox to mix (at the proper time). What materials does my 3D printer need now... to make a head?
DeleteCan I produce them? Do I have self-assembly ingredients or ones that need me to provide an instruction manual?
DeletePerhaps their neighbors know, and will tell them what's needed.
DeleteLike a fungus in the rhizome...
Deletewith its' stomach on the outside, between two mem-brained surfaces
DeleteEating/dissolving one, and feeding the other.
DeleteRemind me to clip my toenails.
Symbiosis is disgusting.
DeleteLike APPs on an I-Phone... or Taylor Swift cross-branding with the NFL.
DeleteShareware or Freeware? Scaled Materials.
DeletePearlite or Martensite. Tempering and quenching required? Pearlite and martensite are two distinct microstructures in steel that form from austenite depending on the cooling rate. Pearlite is a lamellar structure of alternating ferrite and cementite layers formed by slow cooling, resulting in moderate hardness and good ductility. Martensite, on the other hand, is formed by very rapid cooling, creating an extremely hard but brittle microstructure due to the diffusionless transformation of austenite into a body-centered tetragonal (BCT) structure
DeleteI'm gonna need an oven and a quenching tank. I sure hope I brought them with me.
DeleteMaybe I can energize my survival heaters and point the excrement towards the non-solar facing side of my orbiter. I hope I don't overheat my own components in the furnacing process. How radhard does my own surface membrane need to be to get enough single-event upsets to alter/ evolve my a-priori programming?
Delete...and fuse with the nickel-rich Kuiper-belt object I just saddled up to.
DeleteTime to let the swarm know what I've just acquired....
DeleteType II Kardashev scale civilization, here we come!
DeleteThis'll make a great junction node for the Dyson Sphere.
DeleteThe Earth's core is getting too cool to be of use anymore... and the atmosphere grows thinner w/ its' weakened magnetic field every day!
DeleteAmbipolar fields can be soooo fickle.
DeleteGlyn Collinson is a pretty funny guy, though.
Delete//Which you will only be able to test once you encounter it (not in advance) And you won't discover what works (and doesn't) a posteriori..
ReplyDeleteWhy so? Isn't that what modelling are for? Hypothetising? Thought experiment?
Empowered with suitable tech(of a kind you know about, already ;-)
Everything you model has to be an option in the factory/ tech toolkit you bring with you. Unless you're willing to suffer extinction at its' hands. Me, I'd build it offworld.
Delete...or your AI is smart enough to figure out/ invent new tool kit factory components on the fly and build them.
Delete//It's simply a question of having the right ingredients in your toolbox to mix (at the proper time). What materials does my 3D printer need now... to make a head?
ReplyDeleteAnd proper building program
And proper timing
And...
//Can I produce them? Do I have self-assembly ingredients or ones that need me to provide an instruction manual?
ReplyDeleteThere is no such things. No magic.
"Everything is a poison, everything is a cure"©
And most keys only unlock specific locks. You have a skeleton key?
DeletePiezo-electric materials? Smart materials? Self-repairing materials? In laser comm we used the other laser (on ground) to focus our laser (on satellite) with piezo-electrics.
DeletePiezo-electric laser communication uses piezoelectric actuators to steer and stabilize laser beams in systems like free-space optical communication (FSO) and satellite laser links. These systems, often using fast steering mirrors (FSMs), compensate for atmospheric turbulence or platform vibrations, ensuring the laser hits its precise target for high-speed data transmission.
Meden agan.
Ever work with noise cancelling techs on helicopters (aka Apache Longbow) to create a more stable gun platform?
Delete...or build optical IFF devices?
Delete...it might cut down on drone friendly fire fratricide incidents. Better than those stupid Z's the Russian painted on their tanks. Why advertise?
Delete//Pearlite or Martensite. Tempering and quenching required?
ReplyDeleteAdding some Mn or Cr would help too. ;-p
Alloys are great... if they're cheap and abundant.
DeleteVitamins! ;-)
DeleteEven better!
Delete-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
ReplyDeleteType II Kardashev scale civilization, here we come!
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
This'll make a great junction node for the Dyson Sphere.
November 17, 2025 at 10:50 AM
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
The Earth's core is getting too cool to be of use anymore... and the atmosphere grows thinner w/ its' weakened magnetic field every day!
Outdated. Yawn.
I'm in an elliptical Parker solar probe style orbit. What environments did you assume your factory swarm was in?
DeleteIf you have time to fly in and out of extreme manufacturing environments, why not take advantage of them?
Delete???
DeleteThe heat of the Sun. The coldness of Space (out of it). The atmosphere of Venus or Earth (collect gases)...
Delete//And most keys only unlock specific locks. You have a skeleton key?
ReplyDeleteEvolution have
Yes, infinite time and variety.
DeleteWell... Not infinite.
DeleteThat's why it invented humans -- to speed up a thing.;-)
bypassing the random "natural selection" process? Or prevented a more thorough (natural) selection process? Establishing an "artificial selection" process.
DeleteThe question becomes, how many copies do you make? Is your reproduction process biologically sexual or asexual. Do the changes inherit sexually (limited and slow) or communicatively (fast and furious). And if its' the wrong change... your whole population collapses and goes extinct.
DeleteIn other words, how much real world testing does you mod get (and in what environments) before spreading it to the entire population?
DeleteSimulation may be a great start, but the rubber must meet the road at some point.
Delete...and who/ what is keeping track of all the roads?
DeleteWelcome to Michael Levin's "Platonic Space" of mathematics.
DeleteRace is natural selection's process for optimizing an environmental niche. Isolate a population. Prevent communication. And see what genes get expressed.
DeleteThe gene set remains the same. It's "expression" can be something else entirely. Muscular in high-gravity? Or an alien "Grey's anatomy" in low gravity?
DeleteI think R. Sheldrake(?) has a biological theory comparable to Chris' ambipolar field theory... of morphological intelligence.
DeleteIt's very similar, IMO, to Michael Levin's intelligent "bioelectric fields"
DeletePosition being a "how strong is my polar field" question.
DeleteMore Sheldrake</a.
Delete//I think R. Sheldrake(?) has a biological theory comparable to Chris' ambipolar field theory...
ReplyDeleteYawn.
I am not interested in (phony) theories.
Well.
I mean, theories I cannot use, that gives no clues for how technology can use em.
//Simulation may be a great start, but the rubber must meet the road at some point.
ReplyDeleteTotally *MY* line!