As we lose touch with reality, most of us occupying a fantasy reinforced by digital illusion, the artists celebrated will be those which bring us back to whatever we imagine we've lost.
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Replying to @ESDallaire @NoaidiX
Were we ever immune from illusion? I would argue that a state of hypnotic identification is the default mode. Reactionary machines driven by sense impressions, properly marionettes who have lost the ability to separate reality from illusion/delusion We need to find a new doorway
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
This essay overview of Lynn Festa's 'Fiction Without Humanity', which analyzes what the 'human' was in Enlightenment thought and practice, seems relevant. Her book was published in 2019, and still seems encumbered by something similar to a 'Fichtean Ich'.https://www.publicbooks.org/the-posthuman-enlightenment/ …
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Replying to @ESDallaire @NoaidiX
Thank you for the article. Alarming to think that it is our hubris that makes us uniquely human, the center of creation. "It is not any distinctly human essence or power that makes Crusoe human, but rather this very compulsion to picture himself from another’s point of view."
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Replying to @memeristor @NoaidiX
The essay definitely leaves the reader with an intriguing picture of 'the human'. The image might be altogether mistaken, conceptually accessible only because the wrong path was taken. I'm going to pick up the book because I want to see how Lynn Festa got there.
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Replying to @ESDallaire @NoaidiX
I see hope despite the rather dark portrayal and reality of the human condition. I am an optimist in regards to our potential. It seems as if the human race is an experiment in self development. We are mother natures attempt to create an artificial intelligence.
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We are an unfinished work. A work that is potentially transformative both for individual and the race. I believe that this transformation is at the heart of all the great teachers of the past. A subtle injunction calling us to the take of the task of self-creation.
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Much debugging remains to be done but I'm hopeful. 
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Replying to @NoaidiX @ESDallaire
It is possible that I Am the bug. Does I here? Does Here i? If neither here's. Who here's?
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Replying to @memeristor @ESDallaire
It is possible "I" is the bug. That's just "the way I are." Bippity bhavati/bhū. Perhaps presence has no here nor there (nevidha na huraṃ) nor in-between (na ubhayamantarena).
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