The Extinctionati – 73

In this rare excerpt from the fabled ‘Extinctionati’ meetings, we rip open our minds and go straight to a position far above where humans fear to tread.

We begin with the progeny of a recent conversation with the young prodigy ‘Li’ in which she and I discussed the problem of ‘the knowledge of evil’ and how this specific element in cognition can corrupt its root, thus ‘breeding demons in the mind’. We explore a more useful way to think about this issue, as well as the concept of holophores.

And then… the crowning glory of human confusion: The word ‘what’. We discuss fundamental problems with identity, quiddity, and ‘what’ is actually going on in our minds when we attempt to determine ‘the identity’ of a percept. Further, the confusion that arises between false collectives and narratological fictions of causality, responsibility, guilt, and obligation…

We then proceed to examine a variety of topics transcendental to common human cognition, specifically, ‘where is the rainbow?’ (Owen Barfield’s Saving the Appearances), and move to a radical perspective in which ‘the perceived is always within us’, and the idea that awareness most resembles the process of sexual reproduction, thus producing ‘progeny’ according to »the purposes which motivate its formations…

From there we wax wild and wooly, exploring problems in language, thought, awareness and ‘spelling’, particularly, the ancient awareness of the poetic and perhaps divine origin of letters, the problem of writing, the nature of The Third Mind (which we can form together and which this conversation is an example of) and an intoxicating admixture of other related and distinctionist ephemera.

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