on unity
The programmer, acting as a Platonic God, instantiates instances of an ideal mould as an expression of Devine Perfection. There exists a joyful beauty to the recursion of a programming environment written in the language it creates. Lifting itself up by its bootstraps – “Bootstrapping”- parallels God’s central position as the Prime Mover, the Initial Cause. Essential being and time, declaring itself to be its own progenitor, ignites the fires of reason and meaning.
Examining the minutest abstraction of our syntactical structures, man comprehends a binary discreteness to existence. Through our cause-and-effect rendition of the cosmos, our logic-engendered minds build structures from the foundations of ones and zer0s…
We are given a playground in which to explore. Our minds can stretch from the profundities of our Mother’s molten heart, to the soft ethers of the sky, yet all we see is that this rock is here and not there. We search for a Unity when it is at the cost of separation from an Other. We claim triumphantly the primacy of One, and set it confidently against the infinitude of nothingness. How arrogantly we feel we can pull our significance from such a thing, as Midas wills to remove the touch of gold from silk or stone or flesh!
Is there a difference between programming bootstrapping and the initial cause? Programs abstract down to binary, though it is all on the basis of semiotics.
Examine the position of logic in philosophy. These binary oppositions ignore Hegel’s dialectic, and other examinations of their meaning present within the system. The One is always in relation to the Other. 1 cannot be added to 0 – category error.
The semiotics of existence and the Chinese room experiment. Consciousness can exist as a wider phenomenon than we give credit… We have no access to the level and style of self-consciousness that we may form part of. The world, brain, and everything. Even within our understanding, the delineation of one body to one soul/consciousness is anachronistic and fallacious.