Basically my take on this is that nothing here makes sense... It's full of bad assumptions and worse analysis... Maybe a closer study of evolutionary biology can set Nick Land straight https://twitter.com/biodysphoria/status/1012207679333371904 …
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The machinic unconscious has existed and will exist for as long as difference (i.e. thermodynamic gradient) exists. Machinic desire is affirmation of difference.
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This primary production is more fundamental to the “real” than secondary processes like “consciousness" or “care.” To stake all value on the secondary is an idealist confusion.
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Exclusive focus on the secondary process leaves us closed to the unknown (or “completely unrecognizable”) possibilities lurking in the machinic unconscious, trapped in the death-bound individuated ego.
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“We have reached the final chapter of being: The Human.” This is the rejection of difference, which is to say, nihilism. Good thing endless parochial humanism is impossible, on a physical level. As long as we have thermodynamics gradients, being will be changeable and insecure.
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Some conments: 1) I am not interested in insulting you — I simply gave you my frank impression of thoughts running through my head reading a Nick Land essay.
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2) I do not consider myself as placing too much emphasis on consciousness (of which Care is part of) — I am fully at ease with the materialist viewpoint that consciousness is an emergent phantom of some machinistic process
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3) my problem is that of mutualism — it is pointless to care about something that 1) does not care about you 2) has no trace of you. E.g. children may not care about me that much — but they will still have my trace (you can interpret this genetically or spiritually whatever)
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4) the what you call a primary machinistic process has a trace of me only insofar as it *carries a certain Form.* Once the primary process switches its Form to something different (full Capital sans biology or full machine consciousness sans biology) it goes through Looking Glass
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