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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Replying to @biodysphoria @Locus_of_Ctrl
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.
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Replying to @biodysphoria @Locus_of_Ctrl
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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Replying to @biodysphoria @Locus_of_Ctrl
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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Replying to @biodysphoria
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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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl @biodysphoria
Obviously things are interconnected. But to say that "everything is connected and nothing separable exists" sounds a lot like a brainfart one has when one smokes too much weed (like "woah dude! it's all connected!")
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Replying to @Locus_of_Ctrl
Suck my dick. I didn't spend all this time trying to spoonfeed you Nick Land and Deleuze just for you to insult me (like you earlier insisted you didn't want to). I would have used the fancy word "imminence" but was afraid I'd intimidate you, since you thought Land was so hard.
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Replying to @biodysphoria
woah as if there were something intimidating about your form of digital shamanism.
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