Simulacrum
Semiotics and the House of Mirrors
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“Semiotics
is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all”…
― Umberto Eco, A Theory of Semiotics
“Thesimulacrumis never that which hides the truth — it is truth that hides the fact that there is none.
Thesimulacrumis true”...
— Jean Baudrillard
“Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reverse order and so non-survival evaluation.If we use the nervous system in a way which is against its survival structure, we must expect non-survival. Human history is short, but already we have astonishing records of extinction”...
— Alfred Korzybsk
Given that the intelligibility of the Universe by Human Beings [LINK] is mediated via Semiotic Signs [LINK] (Charles Sanders Peirce [LINK] - America’s Aristotle [LINK]) and given:
A Secondary Form of Consciousness [LINK] - Vorhandenheit (Present-at-Hand) (Heidegger) [LINK] - grounded in Cartesian Abstraction [LINK], the Primacy of Human Consciousness [LINK] and the Primacy of Man (i.e. a Theology of Marxism [LINK] was now endemic across Western Civilisation [LINK];
the emergence of more and more computationally powerful ( More is Different [LINK]) Semiotic Sign Machines (i.e. Computers [LINK]) had become ubiquitous;
the embracement of Marxist Theology [LINK] that was now endemic is a power-directed system of thought [LINK] where Reality is socially constructed by Human Beings [LINK];
Post-Modern Liberalism [LINK] had become the primary philosophical orientation of the Globalist Western Secular Orthodoxy [LINK]. A Post-Truth World [LINK] enabled by a Post-Truth Education [LINK] where Dyadic Saussurean Semiotics (European Structuralist and Linguistic based [LINK]) had become the basis for socially constructing narratives [LINK] and managing truth claims [LINK] - a new Totalitarianism [LINK] [LINK];
the Internet had rapidly become the Public Sphere [LINK] of the 21st Century, which enabled the instantaneous transmission, communication & abstract mediation of Semiotic Signs [LINK] across the globe;
the Three Waves of Modernity (Leo Strauss [LINK]) had gradually seen Liberalism morph into Socialism & Communism and ultimately into Fascism, noting that according to Benito Mussolini, Fascism can be defined as the merger of Corporate and State Power [LINK]; and
the rapid adoption and implementation of Large Language Models that strip mine the semiotic sign landscape of Human Being’s to create High-Dimensional Semiotic Landscapes of Abstraction [LINK],
should it really be a surprise that the Map was increasingly replacing the Territory [LINK] and that Human Being’s had now entered not only into the Theatre of the Absurd [LINK] [LINK] but also into the House of Mirrors [LINK]?
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No longer was Being in the World, this Being’s (Dasein) relationship to Being (Sein) - Heidegger [LINK] - and the Univocity of Being - Duns Scotus [LINK] - the ground of Divine and Natural Revelation [LINK].
“The a priori method is distinguished for its comfortable conclusions.It is the nature of the process to adopt whatever belief we are inclined to, andthere are certain flatteries to the vanity of manwhich we all believe by nature,until we are awakened from our pleasing dream by rough facts”…
— Charles Sanders Peirce
[LINK] - David Bowie discusses the unquantifiable Societal implications of the Internet
[LINK] - David Bowie discusses the Internet and the fragmentation of our understanding of Reality
[LINK] - Ari Aster discusses the loss of a shared Reality - What is Real?
