Pictorial 104

The name for a state of affairs where monetary value is based on false premises is fraud. The false premise is that living things can be defined by information (DNA), and information forms part of the cyber-area of numbers which are also words (ones and zeros).

This article on an Indian girl’s hand transplants seems to make the case that DNA is only the material used. It has no intelligence, while the body’s endocrine system – protein molecules or hormones – are what guide all the shapes and colours that make up one person.

What “they” like to say is that information is something separate and distinct, that numbers can be applied to – algorithmically, monetarily. Meaning that an algorithmic representation of a human face (expression] can approach the real thing.

The real problem with saying that is that there is no physical substance (body). It’s like saying everything is number – DNA, money, economics, politics – which is what “they” want. Everything in the same cyber-area that they then control.

A few counter-examples are called for. I noticed this illustration of prehistoric Andean sloth bears. The sloth bears had a wider nose than other giant sloths, allowing them to wet the dry air and maintain humidity while exhaling. (DT)

 

They are very curvy-wurvy in outline, and one can trace a wandering line something like this..

metamorphosis of line 

BWS Medusa VII

IDOMENEO Elektra succumbs to jealous rage and sees snakes!

A sloth like, say, a hunting dog, has a characteristic shape adapted to its pursuits. But the point is it’s all shape, there’s no information. The shape is a priori because it has to all hang together.

The tail of a sloth and the snout of a sloth are all one balanced thing that moves, feeds, breeds. That is only possible if one process directs everything.

The problem with information is it is all in bits. There are computer bits; there are quanta (atoms); there are even quantum computers (Hameroff C13) And there are the pieces of DNA in cells.

The process is nothing to do with information; it’s to do with sinuous grace, the primordial serpent that ripples as it moves. Another example; a donkey braying. The churlish cartoon-like face

 

That can only come from a sinuous process of rippling line and muscle. All these breeds and the millions more are products of sinuous grace. This is the feminine harmonic principle, - or the androgenous snake. Primitive societies have a belief in the female as the fertile symbol, the destroyer who ushers-in rebirth.

As with the Shemitic Ishtar (prev) temples are consecrated and lavishly decorated with ziggurats. Possibly there are animal sacrifices and blood flows on pagan altars.

From these beliefs, and from the animals utilized as beasts-of-burden or for their flesh, is the information of the society wrought. In other words, all primitive information is tied to belief and comes out of an a priori feminine harmonic.

Societies have blood-sacrifice, the land and animals associated with it, the commune and the belief-system. From the grace of this state of affairs one can find a story where events are predicated on strong style and psychic belief.

This isn’t rocket science. It’s just saying that the shape of things is not information; it’s a priori to the feminine harmonic (womb). Capitalist (money) democracies have a weakness that disregards strength of style and psychic content, that does not recognize commune, land, the beliefs associated with them.

I’m reading a Gallic pulp fantasy that purports to be the diary of one BB Bouquerel from the Jupiter of 4077. The guy is a musician and the book developed out of his stage-show with various eco and freako-science themes.

His conceit of the Voicemasters guide the human psyche through the hazards of space. I like that quasi-religious idea that the harmonics of the voice have ethereal meaning. He makes various pulp assumptions that strong beliefs are needed – for example in the Empress Ro’wheena of the Imperial Federation of Jupiter. Only local democracy can work with its “formulae”.

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The destructive aspect is always shirked by democracy with its masculine advocacy of appearance. Yet only destruction can usher-in renewal and hence the Dionysian gaiety of ambient life.

Destruction means that things are changing their form; decaying or being left to dry or ferment. It’s Buffy Saint-Marie’s motto of leaving buffalo manure to become something useful (HB70). It’s the Shanghai of the 19th century (Tales of Faith 2).

Essentially, it’s any society that has a peasant base that is strong with a psychic belief in the land. It’s always been a puzzle to me why the East European communist era was so oddly romantic.. All I can think is that gaiety is not a political concern, it springs from the land that is left to just be what it’s always been. Communist countries were poor, like Latin American, where things happen communally as they always have.

Another way of saying that is that politics is a masculine pursuit, while the land belongs to Mother Earth. One is thinking, the other is unthinking but, as previously said, all primitive information comes out of an a priori feminine harmonic of fertility.

In other words, the information is useful to the feminine harmonic. Intelligence comes from a state of grace. Plants, for example, are not intelligent but they do act intelligently through the simplicity of grace. Hormones in plants act like water in a cascading fountain, the effect in all directions simultaneously.

It’s the opposite of straight-line thought and more like a harmonic-intelligence. Where do the harmonics come from? From the feminine principle or androgenous serpent, where rippling movements are influenced by the shape of hormones.

Hormones are generally aromatic compounds, with a pungency, and are associated with the lifedeath cycles of cells, leaves. With these cycles is attached a pungency that is earthy and strong. This is the land of the gay god Dionysus, where destruction sets in motion strong processes of growth and revival.

We live in the land of images and data which enter a cyber-area governed by numbers (ones and zeros). There is always going to be a phenomenological problem with this area, since it is not physical substance (prev.)

Physical substance dies and decays and enters a very earthy area. The strength and pungency of the earth – the life-giving loam – is redolent of this cycle. From this, the rituals and beliefs of Dionysus and Ishtar are ever-reborn, their temples rebuilt.

There is a bloodiness there, but also a gaiety in the strength the earth ever-gives. The feminine  principle is luscious and rules with grace, as in BB Bouquerel’s Say Hello to Jupiter.

 

Bouquerel’s spacetime fantasy has an optimistic lilt reeking of pseudo-science. For him, the temple to Man’s destiny can be rebuilt on Jupiter by Riemann equations, escapism from modernity via pseudo-science into fairy tale romance; while for me, General Relativity is simply the most perfect illusion of Newtonian ballistics!

 

For me, Earth’s feminine spirit (body) has a strength untold by the insular science of inductive reason (head), grace and pungency in equal measure. The dark forces of metamorphosis seen in timeless Greek myth (WEird 5)

Titian, Rape of Europa (detail)