29 March, 2011

Its All So Simple:

The logic of dialectic, as I have described it, is just a description of the logic of neurons separated from their specific physical connection to the brain. Transistors are a kind of truncated neuron; they are the logic of neurons with all the complexities of the dendrite connections and all the oscillating in electrical patterns tied to sensation smoothed over into a steady and continuous supply of electricity. Hence all they have is on/off. Dialectic is the world-brain; the neo-cortex deterritorialized and projected onto the sky of experience. the neuron network under conditions of infinity and superimposed upon time or experience itself. This is as I described it in the post "Materialism is for Monkeys," where the expanded neo-cortex in monkeys, made to synthesize complex and diverse sensory inputs into a hierarchical system, is deterritorialized to become primarily a logic of images by climactic events. These images are eventually given a partial syntax by the organization of simple sound-images (phonemes) according to language. But we know there is much more to human feeling than all that, and that the neo-cortex is finite, and is influenced by hormones, neuro-chemicals, drugs, sense, reports from the peripheral nervous system, etc.


But, again, dialectic is just the infinite world brain, or universal neo-cortex. Suffice to say that this projection does not proceed from anything intrinsic in "reality." but the accomplishment of dialectic, generally, is amazing: a discovery through phenomenology of how the brain basically works--though in truth it is just a part. Non once said to me that Yoga is a kind of internal scientific method that allows one to hack the endocrine system (and, by extension, many other systems.) This is very apt. Is psychedelic experience rather the reverse: all the para-systems in the brain hacking the neocortex, breaking down its syntactic barriers. Music, too, works in this way.


Obviously this is all just a sketch, but humbly I suggest it is an extremely important one. And if I' wrong, then just what is the logic of the neuron?

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