It is a delusion to believe that the world, or things, relations, beings, effects, events… exist without us — yet this is the foundational of many ridiculous cults of ‘rational’ analysis.

Humans may examine certain features of the relational and physical environment and form theories, such as those related to various forms of (what we call) Darwinism, imagining, somehow, that there is a state or situation in nature which is free from the effects of human intervention or observation. There is no such thing or arrangement, and (for us) there cannot ever be. Neither can our ideas or descriptions be thus.

Within a narrow context, these ideas are powerful and predictive, but beyond that context — as arbiters of the nature of biological reality, for example — they are absurd. The analogy that comes to mind is a butterfly that convinces itself that its wings are merely a cruel, leftover, functionless attachment that hobble it on the Earth and fairly announce its local presence to predators. Thus it never flies.

What I mean is that the presence and active influences of human awareness, consciousness, care, and attention are a game-changing force that all these theories ignore, or pretend should be ignored in order to acquire an ‘objective’ view. But it is an ‘objective’ view of a fantasy! For -no such world exists-, and if it did, it would be meaningless in every way to speak of or imagine it. For without us, there is no meaning for us. And without our participation and the powers and choices we bring to it, there is no world.

The idea that these ‘rules’ exist in some state that is meaningful prior to or without the powerful intervention of our measurements, evaluations, categorizations and awareness… is just as absurd as any other nonsense one can invent. The difference is that many otherwise relatively intelligent people and subcultures are not only driven by this delusion, they have become its defenders and agents.

Theories and ideas produce people and cultures in their likeness… and math is perhaps the closest thing we have to something like an objective encoding substrate… but even that is not free from all I here portend…