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The Virtual Pill; How the internet accidentally learned the subtle Science 2017-08-06 07:17:11 Post No. 136382647
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The Virtual Pill; How the internet accidentally learned the subtle Science
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Swallowing “the pill” is a well-groomed meme. We talk about the big pill, red pills, blue ones, brown ones, final ones... etc. Here I offer the virtual pill. What sets the virtual pill apart is that it is unavoidable, already digested; a pill whose effects have already manifested, one that once accepted acts retroactively through time. A separate discussion is when and how it all started – for some background reading, the history of philosophy has the “state of nature” conversation to catch up with. I’ll be using virtual, in the way Gilles Deleuze and other French metaphysicians have, to refer to things that are real but not physical.
From Wikipedia:
“When one uses a computer, the monitor displays an image that depends on physical interactions happening at the level of hardware. The window is nowhere in actuality, but is nonetheless real and can be interacted with. This example leads to the second aspect of the virtual that Deleuze insists upon: its generative nature. This virtual is a kind of potentiality that becomes fulfilled in the actual. It is still not material, but it is real.”
The metaphor of the computer screen, as a surface effect of the interactions of hardware is meant to express the nature in which the physically manifested interacts with a plane of potentiality. A quick and useful takeway from Deleuze is that while immaterial, it is out of the virtual that the actual is manifested. The virtual can be thought of as real yet immaterial. These concepts are closely related to the Platonic Ideals, concepts from math, and more to my point, memetics. Their use is to be a framework for how the physical interacts with potential, how language affects reality, how thoughts shape vision.
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“I did not give way to him willingly, but out of insight. No
man binds Above and Below together. But he who did not grow
like a man, and yet has the form of a man, is capable of binding
them. My power is paralyzed, but I survive in my son.”
The ebb and flow of politics is protracted by the state of our human collective consciousness. Writhing for expression humans grind away at their values, differentiating themselves from one another and along the way producing a world that reflects their part of their journey. The internet gave humans expression without a body; image boards -the most extreme vehicle for this virtual bodiless expression. This was not without consequence. More experienced readers are already aware of the phenomena produced; the most severe of which left people living as the embodied symbols of another. Those that made the internet their dominant medium of self expression planted a seed in themselves that unmanaged would fracture their identity. Libertarianism gave way to Traditionalist values as board culture negotiated the primacy of space. Do we live in the virtual plane or where our feet stand? Identity politics has one answer, there are may ways to approach this topic.
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