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October 20, 2005
Cognitive Dissidents
Intellectual property. What the hell is it? 1s and 0s have no tangible meaning. You cant touch binary. Seems these days, every thought eventually leads to this. The paradigm shift into further abstraction. Spinoza thought that GOD was in everything - or more appropriate, GOD GOD GOD GOD. which is equally inaccurate. Borges refernces this in his work Labyrinths - the discussion of Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius. This invented people have no concept of individuality, "All men who repeat a line from Shakespeare are William Shakespeare."
Tie this into the Selfish Gene. Tie it into Socialist Existentialism. Digital life is approximating Plato's concept of the perfect circle - existing in the mind. What is the abstraction, reality? But I wax poetic.
So what does this have to do with derivative culture? (if you haven't been able to follow thus far, then perhaps you should think more like me). Theres no escaping sample-based innovation. And I'm sure too many people have done a poor job explaining why, so I'll not contribute.
Please look up 'solipsist.'
This entry was published [unfinished] to demonstrate a universally available ability to put out stuff... right...
I promise these thoughts will be given flesh at a later point in time.
Posted by alex at October 20, 2005 01:10 AM