Amen Technology
Technology companies are the primary creators of meaning. They sell it to you and you buy it as ‘objective reality’, as ‘science’, as ‘truth’. They are your preferred suppliers of reality, and you are hooked, existentially dependent, because you do not create meaning, and you need meaning. When a plague is declared and the technology of salvation is offered, you have no choice, you are fully committed, or else you are facing the void of your own creative impotence and meaninglessness, cultivated meaninglessness, which is passed on from generation to generation. Give us our daily bread, our meaning, for we are hollow, lost without a shepherd. For thine is the kingdom, and Bitcoin, and the power, and the glory, Google forever. APPLE.
Technology companies are the primary creators of meaning. They sell it to you and you buy it as ‘objective reality’, as ‘science’, as ‘truth’. They are your preferred suppliers of reality, and you are hooked, existentially dependent, because you do not create meaning, and you need meaning. When a plague is declared and the technology of salvation is offered, you have no choice, you are fully committed, or else you are facing the void of your own creative impotence and meaninglessness, cultivated meaninglessness, which is passed on from generation to generation. Give us our daily bread, our meaning, for we are hollow, lost without a shepherd. For thine is the kingdom, and Bitcoin, and the power, and the glory, Google forever. APPLE.
A thing is just what the concept of that thing ‘means’. That meaning may include the capacity for constitutive change, but cannot include the meaning of the thing that changes. Its identity must endure through change, or it would not be the same thing. To change the meaning of a thing that endures change is to conceive of a different thing.
The real estate market is entirely policy driven, engineered, and as such amounts to insider controlled wealth expropriation machine. Those who know when the rates will go up or down can profit risk-free at the expense of others; for the outsiders it is no different to gambling in a casino against loaded dice. The casino is owned by the banking system.
The aim of philosophy it to transform subjective consciousness into objective reality, and thus resolve the conflict between them.
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Reality is collectively created and continuously negotiated. The individual has marginal influence on how reality is created, but some have more influence than others because they are aware of what they are negotiating.
A broken vase cannot be magically un-broken by us wishing it to be so, but collectively we may change what ‘a broken vase’ means and why it matters, and this is how we progressively create reality and ourselves.
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The common ontology (the world as we know it) is far from consistent. Parcels of consistency are compartmentalised and quarantined, where anxiety, fight flight, dependency, madness, pathology are all frictions/contradictions between them. This gives power to the influencers who can manipulate these connections to shift and transform the parcels of consistency. Total ontological consistency is a challenge too big for anyone, but the more logically consistent we can be across all the content of the common reality the more power we have to modulate its meaning. It can also make us immune to the influence of the ruling power that sustains itself by exploiting our contradictions.
The myth of ‘celebrity CEO’ is the reality of your consensual bondage to power. Their idea is your reality; you live in their mind and according to their will.
The idea of ‘thing in itself’ implies an idea that is not an idea, therefore contradiction. Anything that an idea signifies, corresponds to, or refers to is internal to that idea, or else it would not signify, correspond or refer.
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Speaking your mind is not equivalent to being ‘truthful’. Your mind may be inconsistent, your beliefs contradictory, and therefore false, and asserting what you do not know to be true is not truth. Most people, perhaps all people, are entirely incapable of speaking the truth, of being truthful, lacking a consistent standard of truth. At best they can occasionally make sense.
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Claiming wisdom without knowledge, and knowledge without proof, entails contradiction, therefore non-sense, which is of itself a proof of ignorance. https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/derivation-of-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason-from-the-law-of-non-contradiction
A Guru is made by the judgement of fools. It takes a fool to accept it.
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A provisional argument ‘why there is something rather than nothing’:
1. Consciousness is self-evident and implies that there is something rather than nothing.
2. Therefore, we know that there is something rather than nothing.
3. All identifiable existence consists in the idea of its identity as an existent, therefore existence is internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
4. Knowing that there is something rather than nothing is a sufficient reason that there is something rather than nothing.
5. There is something rather than nothing because consciousness.
6. Consciousness is timeless and has no cause, because time and causality are internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
EDIT: there is something rather than nothing because consciousness necessitates something rather than nothing.
‘Something rather than nothing’ is an essential property of consciousness, and the question ‘why’ presupposes consciousness. ‘Something rather than nothing’ is therefore presupposed by the question. This possibly makes the question logically inconsistent: implies that the implied answer is not implied.
1. Consciousness is self-evident and implies that there is something rather than nothing.
2. Therefore, we know that there is something rather than nothing.
3. All identifiable existence consists in the idea of its identity as an existent, therefore existence is internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
4. Knowing that there is something rather than nothing is a sufficient reason that there is something rather than nothing.
5. There is something rather than nothing because consciousness.
6. Consciousness is timeless and has no cause, because time and causality are internal to consciousness, otherwise contradiction (an idea that is not an idea).
EDIT: there is something rather than nothing because consciousness necessitates something rather than nothing.
‘Something rather than nothing’ is an essential property of consciousness, and the question ‘why’ presupposes consciousness. ‘Something rather than nothing’ is therefore presupposed by the question. This possibly makes the question logically inconsistent: implies that the implied answer is not implied.
The laws of sense are an algorithm for transforming noise into meaning.
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The daily practice of “Acknowledgement of Original Custodians/Owners” is nowadays the most common manifestation of ‘fixated personality disorder’. It is a mental health issue.
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The whole point of “affordable housing” is to force little people to accept less for more, to put you in a cell but also convince you to pay for it, including all living expenses and local government taxes. The angle they use is “getting into the property market”;)
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The objects of perception are ‘given’ to us (involuntary) in the same way that most thoughts emerge in our mind, involuntarily. The only difference is how what we call perceptions of ‘reality’ are integrated with one another. ‘Reality’ is a realm of meaning integrated on the basis of the idea of causality, whereas other thoughts are integrated only on the basis of correlation, implication and identity.
A Theological Hypothesis:
Zion is a state of mind, a state of transcendental understanding, not a place, a nation-state, or a nation.
The Old Testament / Torah was the first teaching that guided humanity from their primitive state towards transcendence. After a period of human development through obedience, the first teaching was superseded by the New Testament, raising the scope of moral understanding. After 2000 years, the second teaching has reached its potential to guide human development and now a third teaching is necessary, written in contemporary language, consistent with the developed standards of reasoning and persuasive to all, including atheists.
Here is an introductory text that sought to establish the narrative continuity from the first, to the second and to the third teaching:
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/transcendental-theology-for-non-believers
Here is my attempt to articulate the third teaching, which now takes form as a matter of logical necessity. No individual can consistently claim to be the original author of the third teaching, one may merely articulate it, because the third teaching emerges on the systemic level of consciousness and affirms the function of social reflexivity as the mechanism of meaning creation.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/announcing-book-release
Zion is a state of mind, a state of transcendental understanding, not a place, a nation-state, or a nation.
The Old Testament / Torah was the first teaching that guided humanity from their primitive state towards transcendence. After a period of human development through obedience, the first teaching was superseded by the New Testament, raising the scope of moral understanding. After 2000 years, the second teaching has reached its potential to guide human development and now a third teaching is necessary, written in contemporary language, consistent with the developed standards of reasoning and persuasive to all, including atheists.
Here is an introductory text that sought to establish the narrative continuity from the first, to the second and to the third teaching:
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/transcendental-theology-for-non-believers
Here is my attempt to articulate the third teaching, which now takes form as a matter of logical necessity. No individual can consistently claim to be the original author of the third teaching, one may merely articulate it, because the third teaching emerges on the systemic level of consciousness and affirms the function of social reflexivity as the mechanism of meaning creation.
https://michaelkowalik.substack.com/p/announcing-book-release
Substack
Transcendental Theology for Non-Believers
Pope Benedict XVI argued that it is "necessary and reasonable to raise the question of God through the use of reason" and to understand "theology, as inquiry into the rationality of faith." (Ratzinger 2006) The idea that faith per se can be reconciled with…
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Welcome to a “Fenced Community”, your community. 😂 (affordable housing, priced at $750k per unit) https://www.news.com.au/national/like-a-prison-panned-housing-plan-demonstrates-broader-trend-in-australias-property-market/news-story/4f8b6e4c09e4fd59647983ec099603e4
Free Energy
The concept of energy may be defined as the capacity for change. Change is an essential property of being and time, therefore energy is eternal and inexhaustible. We are not limited by the availability of energy but by our ideation of change and of the things that are subject to change, and these concepts are not immutable. Energy is essentially meaning, and meaning is transformed by consciousness. Consciousness is the primary capacity for change and therefore a fundamental form of energy, to which all physical forms of energy are subordinate.
The concept of energy may be defined as the capacity for change. Change is an essential property of being and time, therefore energy is eternal and inexhaustible. We are not limited by the availability of energy but by our ideation of change and of the things that are subject to change, and these concepts are not immutable. Energy is essentially meaning, and meaning is transformed by consciousness. Consciousness is the primary capacity for change and therefore a fundamental form of energy, to which all physical forms of energy are subordinate.