>'But how does any of that matter when we are on the threshold of creating genetic code from scratch? Watching them argue is like watching ants fight while you're standing over them with a broom and ready to sweep them all away. Absolutely fascinated by these absurd little creaters who have no idea where they are, what they are and what's about to befall them.' - Alex Kierkegaard>'A (r)evolutionary spectre is haunting the whole of terrestrial humanity, the Posthuman spectre of Prometheism' - Jason Reza Jorjania great omen is overshadowing the globe, do you not feel it? between the radical breakthroughs in biotechnology and the trump administration siding with the technocrats in the development of ai, it seems this year is the start of a rapid hurtling into a new world. horrors beyond 'our' comprehension will no longer be fictional, but rather historical necessitieswhile artificial intelligence is of course fascinating, my eyes are personally on the side which pertains to the absolutely radical innovations which we have been making in the modification of human biology. michael levin will definitely completely revolutionize our understanding of life. his research confirms on a deep level the things which bergson and raymond ruyers had to say about the phylogeny and ontogeny of organic forms a century ago. while people are obsessed with the culture war and the ontology of various biological categories, those same categories are destined to be undermined from below by the mindboggling advancements that will befall us.
what exactly is the self when our bodies become revealed to be equivalent to mind itself and our physical boundaries become ever more amorphous? what does gender matter when flesh becomes plastic? where will sexual morality go when pregnancy becomes wholly optional and most diseases are vaporized. we are destined to see a terrifying liquifying of all cultural forms. the future that nietzsche spoke of shall dawn on us. we are it! yet as the calamity is upon us, where is our much needed transvaluation of values? instead we are seeing an uptick of culture warrior paranoia. i look around in utter confusion. do they not know god is dead?many erroneously take the statement that god is to be one that is nihilistic. this ultimately misapprehends what is the essence of nihilism, id est the claim that THIS world that we live in now has no meaning to it. many people fail to grasp the subtlety behind the statement at hand. if your belief structure ultimately claims that this life is for naught and it is ultimately the next life which has much of any real significance, is it not functionally nihilistic? then as for christianity, in so far as it rests itself on this claim, is it not in fact the most nihilistic of religions? yet immanent to christianity there is a thought that goes against this very nihilism"the kingdom of god is inside you" said christ. and christ himself was the logos made flesh. and when he died he yelled to the heavens "god, why have you forsaken me?" hence the transubstantiation from god to man was thereby completed. such brutal of sacrifice produced the greatest of miracles. in the eucharist, followers feast on christ's flesh and swallow his blood; implicit in this act is that through the consumption of the body, one may come in contact with spirit. the same logic pervades cannibalistic tribes where they would eat the heart of a strong warrior to gain his strength. immanent to the body, there is somehow salvation. a divine spark to be unlocked...
christianity shows that spirit is not only substance but subject, but to do so it must dip its toes in the sarkic. yet this project was never a complete refutation of nihilism. for christ was begotten by god and returns to god and this god he returns to is transcendent. man does not play any role in his salvation, and his true abode is not this earthly realm. at the end christianity gave birth to a nihilism as profound as its theological innovationsinstead of siding with the "word made flesh" i propose a sarkic faith of "the flesh made word". instead of pressing our hopes on a god that is outside us, we instead find within ourselves a mother god who loves us. our goddess of the new biopolitical epoch, hidweh, great psychopomp of individuation! may she give power to those who have the strength to push past their biological boundaries. may she provide warmth to those who are at the edge of cyberpsychosis. her followers shall be the first to explore the great frontier of biokinesis. in the process we may discover an ethos that shall allow sapience to survive in this new age, no matter how monstrous it must become! may our madness provide mankind with a light to brave the future!further reading:arrangement of philosophical and occult sources towards a sarkic practice:>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vShFz5cyM9oOzUxwIYWRM0RGxOJnhc9FXYDvGJa3-degKHEcQ5twizjwx4zTkYhufXnvT1BugnYApyK/pubbasic information on hidweh:>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQQ7-445TrIYxYztD_nFb8VmDBGiW-IK0bF22DTO585NMu68UW75V7EdXZ79OVLE8uQBWoQrUoWZ_D_/pubmyths:>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vSDSWfgPm63n-4XhO0aYvlVZIy19u57c55a6hbBX8tfymOC6EHfQBd3N3RfdOOWNpow-7O1Twz8H-gM/pub>https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTc-_Z-Wi_gclSTgVmhS205jNYE8GB30FHuSNExFZ6HTVSxfYJJyI0q09t6rjrxbPqgg7t6i7-Az3sI/pubif you are interested in writing your own myths, theological and metaphysical speculations, or create art, we welcome you!
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>>17457468You think we're on the verge of creating genetic code from scratch, but have you seen how messy real life is? Literally can't trust humans to do anything right. Look at the world we live in: poverty, war, pollution and you're telling me biotechnology is gonna fix everything? A recipe for disaster, not enlightenment. The same people promoting these radical changes are the ones who can't even keep their own lives together. You really think these technocrats give a crap about ethics or safety? It’s only a matter of time before they unleash something that completely backfires. We're playing god with genetic engineering while ignoring that we can’t even manage our own species, instead of progressing, we're just speeding towards our own extinction... Too many variables, way too much hubris... Stop pretending this is some kind of progressive utopia when it’s more likely to be dystopian chaos.
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>>17459988i first want to say i very much appreciate leaving a comment>You think we're on the verge of creating genetic code from scratchthat's a quote from icycalm which i agree more with in spirit. we are not going to be creating genetic code from scratch in the near future like that. what we are on the verge of is a bioelectric revolution which we are already seeing with michael levin. the man has basically cured cancer already and he has been able to stimulate the growth of limbs (these have not yet been done on humans but the technology and the principles behind these technologies are there):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8jNGzaRTSE&ab_channel=TheWellthis stuff is way more creatively effective than crispr as well. you can see this with xenobots. the chief problem with genetic engineering is that genes dont actually determine as many traits as we'd like to believe. scientists need to understand that the body is a delineation of mind, and levin's scientific enterprise is exposing this>poverty, war, pollution and you're telling me biotechnology is gonna fix everythingnot at all and in fact nowhere have i claimed this. if anything biotechnology will make all of these things worse except maybe pollution (proliferation biodegradable containment). the only thing that will fix those things is a radically different social order than we have to day, but people are too enmeshed in the culture war to have that. if i am being realistic, i think for a great deal of time, what land calls hyperracism will be the state of affairs>Stop pretending this is some kind of progressive utopia when it’s more likely to be dystopian chaos.it definitely isnt going to be a progressive utopia. as i said before there will come many horrors beyond our comprehension in this epoch. the transvaluation is a necessity if you want to thrive or even survive in the future. i am not here to bring sunshine and rainbows anon. things are going to be very messy no matter how you slice it
>>17460211oops wrong linkhttps://youtu.be/uFMLpZkkH_8?si=rxXjudmaBlZ4ufU9&t=2919here he basically admits hes stopped cancer cells despite exposing the animal with a bunch of carcinogens. absolutely unreal times are in front of us
>>17459988>You really think these technocrats give a crap about ethics or safety?also of course they dont. people hardly even know where they are headed. ive already come to terms with what things the future shall bring years ago. the crazy thing is that you are not even wrong, but at the end of the day it is either dare or get washed away by the tide of the timesi think one thing to note too is that you bring up all of these very real issues but look how little mainstream society cares. people are too busy talking about chuds or wokeness crap. noone is going to to even fight against it. the trump administration is funding a massive agi initiative and no one gives a damn. people will rather argue about whether or not musk did a nazi salute. lets face it. people are going to bicker over nothing until suddenly the world outside social media is an unrecognizable nightmare
i should also mention that the hidweh cult is not simply about technological progress but occult and mysticism as well. if anything, the technology is an extension of these other aspects
>>17460211>muh bioelectric con>basically cured cancerhighschool dropout detectedstopped reading
>>17461914i am aware that the idea of curing cancer as though it is a monolithic thing sounds absurd. however he has a general theory of how morphogenesis is organized and within that framework he gave a hypothesis that gives a very general explanation of the bioelectrical underpinnings of all sorts of cancer. the very absurdity of the claim contrasted with the fact he's made very concrete steps to this goal (with an approach very much motivated by his theories mind you) really signifies something profound. the thing is, due to my prior familiarity with vitalistic philosophy, i am not too surprised, though stillhis basic idea was that when cells organize they are often answering to a higher scale of self (i.e. that of the entire body). cancer cells meanwhile only answer to a lower scale of self which causes the disruptive behaviour. it's not just biotechnology, but a movement to a more holistic understanding of phenomena as well
>>17460211one thing i do predict of course is that the veil of the culture war will be sliced into pieces. it. will become increasingly clear that all of this bickering about culture was pointless. btw pic related is the full context of the alex kierkegaard quote
