Tuesday, 30 June 2026

Fruitfly in The Grid

What is there to talk about? One asks self this question. There are quite a few things like literature, science, philosophy, art, music, the nature, the universe, quite a few things. Then another question arrives, what remains to talk about when one's autonomy is sabotaged? Autonomy over one's self is the most basic freedom that is there and when that is not there nothing remains and that it can be sabotaged, makes everything else redundant. What remains then? Only survival. Air, water, and what is bought from money, food, clothing, shelter and the nature if it is available and not even the universe or space but only the night sky. Culture and society become redundant because they are made of people and so are left redundant the country and the world when the autonomy of the self erodes. Is there a way to salvage autonomy, kind of yes but not completely but the way technology is evolving soon it might not be salvaged at all. It would be like that episode of Black Mirror, USS Callister, where a guy is trapped in a digital universe a sort of infinity with no way to contact the outside world only that infinite universe would be one's own consciousness and there would be a feeling of constant suffocation of walls closing in despite being alone in the vast infinite space of one's own consciousness with no one in the picture. That brings us to brains grown in labs, and the kind of consciousness they experience, they can be connected to the game Doom and they can think of themselves as a Space Marine killing demons. The fruit flys brain mapped and put in a simulation thinks of itself as a real fruitfly and behaves like it. A human brain does the same just that the simulation is socio-political with religion and culture aiding it. Matrix was right in a lot of things but wrong in two, the machines are not literal machines but a machine of humans, an organic socio-political machine that farms (and farming is a wrong word because farming doesn't involve hatred or contempt) people for, unlike electricity as shown in The Matrix, for data and pleasure and the sadism involved is directly proportional to the differential in the power dynamic. What is there to talk about? Survival of course. Air, water and things that require money, like food, clothing and shelter and then come the nature, the night sky and literature, science, philosophy, art and music. There are no frontiers waiting in space for common people because the last frontier of human dignity, and majority doesn't know this, the autonomy, has been colonized. 

No comments:

Post a Comment

Competent Authority

You imagine a girl painting a picture of you as Tyler Durden from fight club. A pizza delivery boy goes to deliver a pizza at a whorehouse. ...