<div dir="ltr">Hey Guys It's me Kevin, been a Long time. Forgive me for posting here but you all got to see this Cool Children Video about LUCIFER just in time for the Holidays <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meagyBWluBQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meagyBWluBQ</a> Hope You all enjoy it, Ho Ho Ho Merry Christman and Beast Well :) Hey Mike you Know about Fractals, Physics and Math here is a New Computing using Physics to Count I think You will enjoy it Mike :) <a href="http://ashesmi.yolasite.com/fractal-binary.php">http://ashesmi.yolasite.com/fractal-binary.php</a> Be well Ho Ho Ho <br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Michael Allan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@zelea.com" target="_blank">mike@zelea.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I post this as a matter of record. For anyone else who's interested,<br>
here the technology comes to grips with universals (cultural totality<br>
of myth, social totality of rational beings, infinite space and time)<br>
which allows it to serve as a critical lamp for reading social theory.<br>
<br>
I chose to start reading at Kant because he's said to be the inventor<br>
of autonomy [0]. But if the argument below holds, then autonomy is<br>
bound up with immortality, and the lamp should therefore be service-<br>
able not only going forward from the Enlightenment into modern times,<br>
but also backward into theology and the roots of mythic thought.<br>
<br>
I only started reading. I'm sure I'll make mistakes along the way.<br>
But so far, it's kind of fun; at least as fun as designing software.<br>
<br>
Mike<br>
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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration<br>
and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on<br>
them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.<br>
— Kant [1]<br>
<br>
The starry heavens<br>
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Only the outline is copied here. For the full argument, see:<br>
<a href="http://zelea.com/w/Stuff:Votorola/p/nMy#The_starry_heavens" target="_blank">http://zelea.com/w/Stuff:Votorola/p/nMy#The_starry_heavens</a><br>
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[OYA] Outline of the mythic argument<br>
<br>
(PiA) The population is autonomous<br>
|<br>
+- (PiAi) The population is autonomous in its immortality<br>
|<br>
+- (PiM) The population is given to be mortal<br>
| |<br>
| +- (SiC) The survival of the population is contingent<br>
| | |<br>
| | +- (NxP) Let there be a natural existential risk to<br>
| | | the population<br>
| | |<br>
| | +- (AxP) Let there be an artificial existential risk<br>
| | to the population<br>
| |<br>
| +- (IiU) Let the accidental attainment of immortality be<br>
| unlikely<br>
|<br>
+- (PdI) The population determines above all to become<br>
| | immortal<br>
| |<br>
| +- (YiA) Let the mythic purpose (NpY) be autonomy in<br>
| immortality (PiAi)<br>
|<br>
+- (PrC) The population removes all contingency from the issue<br>
| of its survival<br>
|<br>
+- (NfS) Nothing could force survival on the population<br>
| |<br>
| +- (XiO) Let deliberate extinction be forever open to<br>
| the population<br>
|<br>
+- (PnX) The population ensures that nothing can force its<br>
| extinction<br>
|<br>
+- (PdF) Let the population develop a practice of star<br>
| faring<br>
|<br>
+- (PdS) Let the population distribute itself among<br>
| the stars<br>
|<br>
+- (XdS) Let existential risk (SiC) decline<br>
| exponentially with stellar extent<br>
|<br>
+- (PcF) Let the population continue its practice of<br>
star faring<br>
<br>
The moral law<br>
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Kant defines the principle of morality in terms of self-legislation,<br>
or autonomy: "act only according to that maxim through which you can<br>
at the same time will that it become a universal law." [2]- He names<br>
this definition of the principle the "categorical imperative", because<br>
it formulates an obligation or command (imperative) and the command<br>
allows for no exceptions (categorical) [3]. He says that the "ground<br>
of the obligation here must not be sought in the nature of the human<br>
being, or in the circumstances of the world in which he is placed, but<br>
a priori soley in concepts of pure reason" [4]. Morality is a useful<br>
concept only if its law "must hold not merely for human beings but for<br>
all rational beings as such". [5]<br>
<br>
This suggests a similar generalization for the aim and conclusion of<br>
the mythic argument. Given that any population of rational beings has<br>
attained autonomy through immortality (PiAi), it follows that rational<br>
beings as a whole have thereby attained the same state:<br>
<br>
(RiAi) Rational beings are autonomous in their immortality.<br>
<br>
Which means that rational beings are autonomous, period.<br>
<br>
(RiA) Rational beings are autonomous.<br>
<br>
This future conclusion refers to rational beings as a collective. For<br>
an individual, recall that the principle of morality is already<br>
defined in terms of autonomy. Indeed, Kant asserts that autonomy and<br>
the moral principle are identical: [6]<br>
<br>
... what else, then, can freedom of the will be, but autonomy,<br>
i.e. the property of the will of being a law to itself? But the<br>
proposition: the will is in all actions a law to itself, designates<br>
only the principle of acting on no maxim other than that which can<br>
also have itself as its object as a universal law. But this is<br>
just the formula of the categorical imperative and the principle of<br>
morality: thus a free will and a will under moral laws are one and<br>
the same.<br>
<br>
Kant underlines this with a further assertion: "Freedom must be<br>
presupposed as a property of the will of all rational beings" [7].<br>
From this it clearly follows that individual autonomy too must be<br>
presupposed, or at least its immediate availability through the<br>
re-aligning of one's actions. But there is no such guarantee of<br>
immediate availability in the case of collective autonomy, which is<br>
not bound to an ever present capacity for moral action. The moral<br>
principle cannot even apply to the collective of rational beings,<br>
which in its universality is already the referent of that principle.<br>
<br>
Individual and collective autonomy differ therefore in this regard:<br>
although both are defined as self-legislation against contingency, the<br>
former is tied to a morality that is everywhere within immediate<br>
reach, while the latter is tied to an immortality that is reached only<br>
through an enterprise of mythic proportions, if at all.<br>
<br>
<br>
Notes<br>
-----<br>
<br>
Kan85 Immanuel Kant. 1785. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.<br>
Translated by Mary Gregor and Jens Timmermann, 2012. Cambridge<br>
University Press. <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=qfyKv1a-lPAC" target="_blank">http://books.google.ca/books?id=qfyKv1a-lPAC</a><br>
<br>
[0] Jerome B. Schneewind. 1998. The invention of autonomy: a<br>
history of modern moral philosophy. Cambridge University<br>
Press. <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=VfadsTs-1bUC" target="_blank">http://books.google.ca/books?id=VfadsTs-1bUC</a><br>
<br>
[1] Immanuel Kant. 1788. Critique of Practical Reason.<br>
Translated by Mary J. Gregor, 1997. Cambridge University<br>
Press. p. 133. <a href="http://books.google.ca/books?id=E9S_ey6M3igC" target="_blank">http://books.google.ca/books?id=E9S_ey6M3igC</a><br>
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[2] Kan85, 4:421<br>
<br>
[3] Kan85, 4:413, 4:420<br>
<br>
[4] Kan85, 4:389<br>
<br>
[5] Kan85, 4:408<br>
<br>
[6] Kan85, 4:446-7<br>
<br>
[7] Kan85, 4:447-8<br>
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