The ego is a “real” abstraction, like capital; it is the false & nihilistic assumption that makes intersubjective exchange possible. It’s useful. But we shouldn’t mistake the map for the territory.
The ego is just a placeholder we use to describe the primary "machinic" processes that produce consciousness in the brain. What the "ego" constituted by these processes wants or “ cares" about is no more inherently significant than e.g. the arrangement of carbon atoms in a rock.
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The lie on which the ego is premised: independent systems exist absolutely, and are rigorously separable from other systems (this is what Deleuze is all about). This is a theological assumption, and is incompatible with materialism.
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Corollary to the above: biological “forms" aren’t rigorously separable from non-biological “forms.” Life is just auto-production. RNA crystals and self-replicating silicon both have claims to the term.
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I have no "problem" recognizing silicon as a separate form of life once it actually starts replicating itself (in a way that's not equivalent to piggying off the back of another more self-sufficient lifeform).
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Accelerationism: the idea that this will happen sooner than you think
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It's possible. It's also possible that it will happen a lot later than you think. It's also possible that it will be a whimper rather than a bang -- biological forms continuing side by side.
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I made a huge mistake in the above tweet by using the word "ego" because I have very little Care about the specific Landian definition of that word -- I simply meant "the thing that Cares"
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It's the same thing. It's not about the word you use. There's no separable entity that cares. Care is produced by the machinic unconscious. It's not the property of an absolute individual actor.
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There's no unitary being; only anonymous becoming
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