2024-01-20

NPC's













.. before there was a sun, there was a sea of stars ..













.. & before there was a coalesced, con gealed solid ego there were aggregates or skandhas, networks of magickal links not yet even in a circle; causes & effects of actual events in the world .. 














.. & we're all NPC's, in a sense, innocence; until we decide not to be ..

 

 

 














 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello, hello.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So currently we have communication networks using various forms of physical transmission of signal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They use different wavelengths for achieving these goals and different media or mediums in which to convey the message from point A to point B.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We've been increasingly using shorter \ faster communication channels in terms of both data or information exchange as well as the movement of physical things that have mass and you know, you got to lift up and move around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These communication networks can be considered in terms of information without a holding form - just the mental content decoded on reception. So, a question is, as these frequency rates have increased, data rates have increased, if there was not, in prior days, just as there is now, a set of the population [engineers] who know how to manage and manipulate these information channels, physical information channels - - - whether or not sometime in the past there had been, unknown to probably most ]time-frame?[ individuals.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But somehow a communication network using very slow rates of data exchange over long ranges, basically like radio, but even slower than a radio rate of exchange, and using perhaps the dolmens and megalithic monoliths of semi\prehistoric times. Now, the data, the messages would have to be probably parsed out a little bit differently; wouldn't be in spoken language - I'd suppose - and would have to be some more generalized wave front spreading over the globe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where the early technologists would be able to broadcast out whatever radio waves, electromagnetic frequencies, they required to reach some goal or purpose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because that's what happens now, right? You've got stepping back, maybe about a century or so you got the invention of radio, the spread of radio, radio sets in the average household receiving broadcasts from centralized locations, to inform them of world events, maybe true, maybe not. And then different stories and ways of people looking at people and how they're portrayed in media to this day, just people stories, I guess, human interest stories.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you've got these centralized locations of influence, or at least content production, and going out into the wider population. And these all take place over the electromagnetic spectrum.  back further to my great grandfather out on a farm, and how eventually they had TV and radio, but at some point, they didn't have any TVs, radios, phones, or any of that they're just people exchanging letters, communicating in person at local churches, and other establishments, what have you.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Were there broadcast stations in existence, even then, because it seems like somehow for some reason, communication media do really need to have a tie in to those electromagnetic frequencies and electromagnetic realm of subtle energetic fluxes that are not easily at least perceivable by the human frame, in their relations between objects, which surely exists since well, electro magnetism, electricity, magnetism, all those things are easily demonstrated to be real to the average individual.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in any event,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

maybe there's something with that thought that these structures are antennae, mostly definitely antenna, no way around it, just this question is what frequency range they operate on and the form of the field in which they exist. So yeah, some of the signals should still be there operating in the actual real f*cking physical field..





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“I, too, have been in the underworld, even as Odysseus, and I shall often be there again. Not sheep alone have I sacrificed that I might be able to converse with a few dead souls, but I have not spared my own blood .. With them I must come to terms when I have long wandered alone. I will let them agree and disagree with me, and listen to them when, in proving me right or wrong, they agree and disagree with one another. May the living forgive me that occasionally they appear to me as shades” 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. once, there was a wily, old trickster; a con artist in the shape of a god called Legba ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

..  encountering a sincere seeker on the path, Legba thought it would be amusing to help him find exactly what he sought, & thus cursed him, saying, "you will attain to the Way, oh yea, but only if you keep a record, to help those who might need some assistance .. to this end, may you henceforth be called shades" ..












.. at which the aforementioned, poor sap, thought as if in reply, "I wanted to be a Napoleon, an Oppenheimer, a Bernstein, a Ferrari even, but in the end I was merely (a) shades" ..


























"For Tantric devotees of Shakti, just as for Nietzsche, the human condition is something to be overcome — it is a transitional state between the bestial and a form of life beyond the gods who no longer deserve to be set up as something above ourselves"







- Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes argues that back in the day, as it were, in ancient history, our ancestors experienced their own con sciousness, or perhaps reality itself, giving them orders or commands, which they could but obey ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. & while a scientist could well ask a lot of questions about such a thesis, for the occultist, there is a sense in which it contains a profound esoteric truth .. indeed, it's not difficult to see a parallel here with the idea of NPC's (non-player, or non-playable characters, in a game), 'actors' in a play that merely react, without initiating conscious action per se ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


.. moving along this trajectory, one might con clude that the will itself also evolves, from a merely reactive posture, to thinking through & initiating actions based on long term plans & schemes ..












.. looking at the world today, from this perspective of an evolving will, can go some way to explain why things might seem so "messy" .. William Gibson once said “the future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed“, and in a similar way, a free will to act in accordance with our higher ideals is also here, but not for everyone, equally ..












.. & so, we see that there are esoteric applications to con cepts such as that of the NPC, & a certain inner truth to that uncanny suspicion that some of these are NPC's ..

























".. the sleeper has awakened .."






- Frank Herbert, Dune










.. you haven't thought it through ..












.. the end of fossil fuels, which even today we can see over the horizon even if we can't foresee exactly how far away it is, won't come about because of climate change, as difficult at it is for an avowed environmentalist such as myself to say that .. otherwise, it would have already happened by now ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. it will come about because we've learned better (because they're less abrasive, less destructive) ways of engaging with the very material, the "building blocks" of reality, from which we too are made ..











.. in other words, it will happen when we realize that we aren't NPC's, & that, in causing harm, we're actively harming ourselves .. & that there are better alternatives ..













.. if u don't give a shit, you're bulletproof; 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

but don't take my word for it, unless of course u don't give a shit ..










2023-12-21

fear nothing (save yourself)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

" .. the secret of avoiding boredom is to have a strong sense of purpose"

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Colin Wilson, Beyond The Occult









 

 

 

 

.. immanentizing the eschaton is so yesterday ..









.. & everything's a transition between something & the next anyway ..









.. nowadaze 'm more interesting in holding off as long as possible;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

an apocalyptic karezza, if u will  ..



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Really, it is all just the Devil — including 'God'. The Devil in the sense that what is behind the Wizard of Oz’s curtain is not a benevolent deity or Divine Creator with a higher morality, interested in the salvation of the human soul or punishment of the wicked. The Wizard is a Trickster, as shamanic tribal cultures understood the Trickster. The 'God' of any and every 'revealed' religion is just one of his diabolical projections"







- Jason Reza Jorjani, Closer Encounters














.. if this is your "effective altruism", maybe what we need now is incompetent selfishness ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. or is that a double negative that ultimately reaches the same end from the opposite way .. ?











.. isn't someone who is selfish but in an incompetent way ultimately altruistic by mistake ..?











.. & yes, I'm trying to make a point here, & it is simply this: whether one seeks to be effectively altruistic or winds up being incompetently selfish instead really has nothing to do with other people in the end; what we're talking about are decisions one makes within oneself about how to relate to the world .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. blaming the other for how one turned out might sell copy, but it doesn't absolve the acting agent in any way of their decisions & their con sequences ..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. in effect, it isn't others that one should fear either in the first or the last analysis; but oneself, & more specifically whether one is prepared & willing to succeed or if they'll end up coming up short .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. & that's that, in fact .. 
























 

1. The problem with memory is: eventually you’ll have to remember your death.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Physical reality is the extension of the senses
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3. When born we are ourselves the nameless one[s]
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. translation of ex-isting concepts into a machine logic
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5. Trust in measures somehow based on the scale of or precision in the system in which they operate
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6. the art of slowly walking
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7. how much of communication is hypnosis?
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8. Not everything is remembered in the same way
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

9. In making sense it makes no sense
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10. Your shadow is always bigger than you are [in the sense that there is some radiation coming from every direction and according to the laws of optics a shadow increases in dimension, perhaps attenuated, as distance from the casting body increases]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

11. The battle of civilization is the battle of fucking real life fucking architects

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

you think just throwing in "Beff Jezos" would raise our search ranking?











BEFF JEZOS!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bit lols, but then megalomania has had a comeback of lately
gung-ho

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m not surprised if this is some madison ave style marketing stunt that was carefully crafted / planned…     lol, i think the guy even says straight up that it is one 🤦‍♂️

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

it’ll be like the ultimate source for generating hypnotic links to the unconcious 🧐 the trick will be driving it if you can hook it into being "media of value" and people not caring or noticing it's machine source

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just like the brain, all that data that humans have collected on themselves is a big pile of mush, and stuff goes floating around those electrical paths in datacenters, surfacing occasionally, in this case now in the form of [semi]structured queries with slapstitch responses: a pinch of salt and a pound of (picked) monkey brain \ psychic chunks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Everything the AI models spit back is like finger painting with a pool of paint made of human records, kinda smeary, (w|h)azy like a dream. Word association games like the old psychologists played, but now with some golem pulled out the collective psychic substratum as it, itself, surfaced in the real reality where people did in fact create shit and write things down with fingers, chisels, and all that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If the unconscious is a well of activity of which actual human action is the outlet, or an energetic peak in that flux, then those actual outputs have some signature on them of the submerged causes which produced the material activity. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By glomming everything together, assuming there are shared threads in the unconscious energy, and then by discerning similarities "between" people, AI \ data science locate[s|d] something that exists in the space between humans. So when we ask a generative system we get back something that may be thought of as being that "thing" for "all" people.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What have been built are like machine ports into the collective, variously degreed hallucinative, mass (un)consciousness or at least a part replica. We [anyone] can get "hard" access to that web of relationships that only mediums had in the past ..
























- been thinking a lot about infrastructure and the massive landsprawling machinery system that supports (human) life-as-we-know-it








how there are actual living people who operate the machine excresence(s) from out of humanity’s past that *are* the forms our individual living is forced to conform with









thinking of that live action super mario movie from the 80s or whenever a bit for some reason











- .. you're saying that the structure our modern life takes is a spaciotemporal cave that was dug out by our "ancestors", however one understands that term..? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. or maybe your thought had a different emphasis ..










- Yes, but not just metaphorical










- .. right; you're referring to the actual technical trajectory, the choices they made instead of other ones, the Edison over Tesla of it all ..






















"we are all flames of the same undying cosmic fire. We are the glowing forge of futures past"




- Jason Reza Jorjani, Lovers of Sophia










.. & maybe if we re@LLy tried to be good to one another, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we could be a family again, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

& not opponents through the machinations of the jealous ..












2023-11-22

*duck* your so-called "con tent"

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 or, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

".. he was with my mom in the Amazon when she was researching spiders right before she died .."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[(mellow)dramatic pause]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"One has to be so alone that one needs to create a world in order to have someone to talk to, in order to maintain the will to live"

 

 

 

 

 

 

- Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheus and Atlas












".. a monster is not such a terrible thing to be. From the Latin root monstrum, a divine messenger of catastrophe, then adapted by the Old French to mean an animal of myriad origins: centaur, griffin, satyr. To be a monster is to be a hybrid signal, a lighthouse: both shelter and warning at once"







- Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous













.. better a monster then a middle manager; 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or wouldn't you agree ..



















 

 

 

 

 

 

"Nothing less is demanded of us than the perseverance of an Atlas, the daring of a Prometheus. Mankind is about to be gifted with a new world – but only if we can bear it, only if we can steal it"






- Jason Reza Jorjani, Prometheus and Atlas












.. it's easy to drift, to get carried along in oblivion; it is, but wouldn't it be of more intense interest to intentionally become monstrous? 












.. Friedrich Nietzsche is known for having said "beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster... for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you" .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. but this is neither here nor there for us today, we who have been gazing into the abyss of permacrisis for so long, we hardly remember what we were doing before that .. 












.. & if the purpose of art is to communicate something essential, & not merely to decorate, then surely one ought to strive toward becoming monstrous, rather than simply waiting for this to happen somewhat accidentally or incidentally in any case ..













.. but there are other possibilities here that we might benefit from con sidering .. what of those poor innocents who, inadvertently & without any intention of doing so whatever, nonetheless encounter monstrous phenomena by mere "coincidence"..? .. surely we should spare a thought for them ..











.. certainly, there is little honor in making children cry, but here we ought to employ judgment & discernment; for it is just as regrettable to offer shelter when one was well placed to offer instead a warning of an imminent threat that yet could have been avoided, if only one had been aware of it in time ..




























Ænergetic factors ex(hiss)t in the environment, dig it? Someone did, pulled up a bunch of heaps of rock - buncha kids joined in to build towers and shit, you g|know? Pull the whole thing up by it's b(r)oo[t|d]straps. ->> how can we disentangle the thing with a set of symbols, smaller than the thing?  Space -> No Space -> Space, etc. ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We have a notion of "cleanliness", thinking in terms of our living spaces =- An associated notion of "tidy". I must have never noticed these things. Spaces are considered clean when they are in order, put away: no longer visible as the distinct implements and decorations of living, but hidden away in a cabinet, aligned on a bookshelf arranged by author, or subject, or color. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neat arrays, flat planes and space dominated by right angles and the uniformity of Euclidean space. Clean looks like no-one lives in a house or apartment. The tools are there, but where did they go? Were they used? Nothing is misplaced, but arranged according to some logic behind trying to hide the chaos - put up a front that life isn't messy. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Putting, and keeping, up appearances of emptiness and the imaginary freedom of movement it (temporarily) permits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is starting to ramble,
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

...cleanliness in emptiness

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This has been said how many times before, and why does it keep recurrently bubble back up into consciousness? A crystalline (psychological) complex that does not dissolve?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With this grid, a change in one of the three directions that give birth to the cubic array of 6-sided forms causes no change in either of the others. Variation occurs at angles or deviations from the grid based on the primary directions of left \ right, forward \ back, up \ down. Salt or sand (TO DO: IMAGE REFERENCE) - The Euclidean reference frame has various restrictions within it. It is the centering case of stable reality between the two sheets. But the stability and uniformity is, of course, a lie.

 

 

 

 

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Assigning each cell a binary state we have a digital matrix (TO DO: find reference of this to salt.)... etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Between the cells of the cubic grid, which is variously pixelated by measurement at some scale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

subconscious geometric framework of a Euclidian

 

 

 

 

A relative lack of (noticed) variables -

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

------==>
DO NOTHING
DO SOMETHING -> WHAT CAN BE DONE (?) -<--> SELECT FROM PRIOR
===>
DO NOTHING: 0: WAIT
 

 

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DO: SELECT FROM [
WHAT CAN BE DONE
]
WHEN [DONE|WAITING]?
DONE <- DO: []
WAITING <- DO: [X..] BUT X: NOT READY



























.. some of our potential readers might perhaps be put off by some of our neolojisms, unusual turns of phrase or syntax .. nor would we begrudge them this; but is it not possible that these characteristics of form & con tent are used in con text to con vey a deeper message ..?












.. perhaps we seek to define ourselves as against a commodified-to-death "market" of essentially interchangeable items on a list of con tent, & to say that maybe some things, AI will never be able to replicate..?













.. symptomatic of that 'machinic' attitude is this word, 'con tent', a word that surely has earned a well-deserved con tempt .. con tent is a sweet con fection that is easily digested; in a pinch, one con tent is as good as another con tent & can be substituted for it .. con tent is unobtrusive & by definition doesn't aim at catalysing any especially deep thought  ..












.. we are against con tent as such, & the very idea that art, beauty, craftsmanship ought to be reducible to 'con tent' ..















.. so yes, we are idio(T)syncratic, we have our own way of saying things that are not always those you find in manuals of style, but this is a way to say we won't con form, & if everyone did likewise, maybe no one would be under pressure to follow a 'norm' .. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. or would that then be come yet another norm..? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. well, if one is to have aspirations, then they should at least aim high while they're at it ..












 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. a message heard on the whisper of the wind, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

on so much weed I couldn't see (except in rhythm), 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"the space fam is here & all is well with the world, 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

or at least it will be .."