It reads to me as a shamanic chant by reading which I am expected to switch into a hallucinatory mode and welcome some weird death ritual where I am dismembered by a Machine God or something... to which I say F U machine god, you can do whatever, but after I'm dead.
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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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The what I call Looking Glass is a boundary between different Forms of Being. Things on the other side are not guaranteed (very unlikely) to have meaningful Trace of things on our side since they become bound to very different laws.
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