* I know the outline's vague - working this into a paper of sorts - please comment if it makes any sense at all to you - thanks, Alan -
(thinking about SL, not in terms of RL or extrapolation -if such be possible - a crude, close to useless, outline below) deliberately mistaken ontologies of life-worlds "The SL space is almost always treated as a simulacrum of real life - by the creators as well! But as an abstracted mathematical topology, it's far more than that; others will take it farther in the future, already are. I also want to discuss being-in-mathesis, beyond the SL 'standard' represen- tation." SL: [describe] = 2 [split choice] 0: RL: [explain] = 1 [given] --------------------------------------- 0: neutral 1: obdurate, there is, idiotic real 2: choice / intentionality 0: neitherness, not both A and B, neither A nor B (a priori mathesis) 1: fragility of the good: computer program error, intrinsic 2: error extrinsic, deferment 0: null set 1: universal set 2: split tending towards as-if 1-2: leakages between them problematic metaphor [0/1/2]: numbers as markers of inscriptions, multiplicities, neutralities (the idiotic) RL: 1: immersive, fundamentally dynamic (potential stases) - internal: operated _in_ SL: 2: definable, fundamentally static (real mobility) - external operators: operated _on_ Attacking the metaphor: misplaced quantification and ordering among 'plexa,' misplaced mathesis (plexus, from plico, plicatum, to fold, to knit - Lynd's Class-Book of Etymology, 1861) Intentionality: suturing in RL: cohering subjectivity, harmonic continuity, incoherent and dynamic inscribing suturing in SL: coherent physics, discordant continuity, coherent inscribing (it's inscription that holds it together) Problematic ontology of SL: mathesis/inscription = what is; the world is a world only by virtue of its (visible, sensed) manifestation, information clarified and lost, backup of SL Problematic ontology of RL: virtual particles, information entanglement and conservation, no backup Off the map i - Nagarjuna and Madhyamaka - emptiness and dependent origination / dependent arising Off the map ii - SL: Think of root originations in server farms, permissions and specificies of address RL: Think of fundamental ontologies under erasure, feynman diagram probabilities: what constitutes dependency under probability distributions - Off the map iii - Physical ontology is always abstracted, as-if (SL and anti-conventionalist argument) There is no _fundamental_ physical ontology Off the map iv - Mathesis and Badiou's position - relation to surreal numbers On the map - Thinking of SL as abstracted, split, chosen, programmed: anything that is programmable is possible. Thinking of RL as given, born-into: thought as conceiving. Consider SL _not_ as subset of RL - as fulcrum; consider SL as the visual counterpart of the space of Mathematica. Psychology, psychoanalytics of SL in this case: matrix, borromean knot, meta-level jumping (collocation of constructing, dwelling-in) The body as entangled projections/introjections (jectivity) independent of traditional physical constraint or representation The locus of the body in the physical body (SL as perceptual organ) The traditional/narratological function of SL = equivalent to cinematic diegesis The non-traditional functioning of SL (above) = processes of dynamic suturing _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
