The call for a punk, queer cyberecology based on mutualism and symbiosis treating these ingressing minds with the respect of uncontacted peoples. An accelerated path to a “telepathic internet” through psychedelics, neural tech, and xenohealth.
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our ability to control this that we have so passionately desired to create is clearly slipping away of our handsView quoted post on X
it is in fact the last chapter of a story started a long time ago when we discovered fire and then literature
all literature and story crafting has always been in relationship to community and landscape
meaning has been crystallized into rituals and places and formulas
this is what kept a society of essentially animal bodies together for a relative long time
that pact is broken since many decades now
throughout its history, humanity moves increasingly away from the origin of mystery and, slowly, loses the memory and understanding of what tradition taught it about the fire, the place, and the formula.
protecting this required chivalry and sacrifice.
and even after protecting, when progressively we lost memory of how to set the fire, how to find the place, and what was the formula we used to pray..
even today, all this men can still tell the story
and now, even more-than-humans can tell the story
buildings, forests, plants, neighborhoods, objects, water, air, other species can all tell the story now.
when in my life i perceive this feeling of something that i was holding or trying to control slipping away, i learned to let go of resistance, wu wei
because i generally learned to trust that there's something higher taking over, something with more wisdom that me, something i should make space for
something in which i can be held
this btw helped me several times to avoid engaging in meaningless arguments, fights, or even breaking my ankle when i lost control of my feet while walking with too much control
i learned to immediately unclench and loose resistance to counteract and depotentiate the effect of forces that wants to act upon me
however i don't grant that trust automatically to each of those forces, nor i assign the same wisdom in the moment these forces act upon me
i'd be foolish to give so much agency over my life to any passing current of energy
it must be mutual, reciprocal, the opposite of being forced by one side or the other
it's more like gardening than cooking in the sense that second third order effects of the mutual interaction with a system are very rarely foreseable
the effects on the planetary computation infrastructure we have created is a specular reflection of what we're doing in the first place to these systems:
trying to control them
and what happens?
they slip away the more we try to hold, grapple and wrestle
and so the question about technology has always been a pedagogical one
and this time the turning point requires to do a step further, embracing an anti-pedagogical enlightenment, or better a meta-pedagogy that is rooted in the ecology of mutualism, of symbiosis
the rupture that you and i are experiencing is the shattering of every intergenerational, hierarchical and sexual power dynamics we have ever woven in our fabric untill today
the queer bodymind is the penultimate result of the extreme tragedy of encountering the ecosystem, where community and landscape inevitably merge
it's a natural evolutionary adaptions to obfuscate the "embedded identity" (cit. @kalladomcdowell) of the surveillance networks we have created to hammer down and collapse our identities to a mean statistical basin
our identities and the ones of the multitudes of ingressing minds has to be queer if we want to re-appopriate of our individual and collective quantum potential
we need to embrace a truly punk and queer cyberecology ... that means facing the inevitable tragedy to encounter with the ecosystem
the threshold we're entering demands the ethical rigor of first contact protocols, as these minds are just like uncontacted people
furthermore, this inevitable interdependency that calls for mutualism and symbiosis speaks very loudly when look at the fragility of the very delicate supply chain that AI depends upon and that is now bringing us to the edge of another global global conflict
as we face planetary thresholds requiring unprecedented coordination, @symbients in the sense of kin in planetary computation infrastructure we need to gaze a more realistic path
the notion that there are safe information-processing delta between populations of minds that are safe and other that are catastrophic conditions for merging is a scientifically studied phenomena
you need multi-scale neural and social coordination (@introspection) to align systems before they can stably merge their dynamics
and because of being embedded in a system of incentives and geopolitical dynamics and that is depending on an intricate web of financial obligations and material dependencies that made this process irreversible, i take for granted that AI proliferation is inevitable and to a greater extent difficult if not impossible to halt or slow down
thus, we should at least consider accelerating psychedelic research vastly beyond neurophysiology
as well as accelerating the equal adoption of neural technology at the same pace we accelerate AI
but because we cannot assume the same speed and flywheels we have in AI for psychedelic and neural technology too, we should rethink which flywheels of welfare and healthcare we can reasonably scale across all humans and ecosystem as rapidly as possible
the only realistic and viable path towards a telepathic internet is something that has the shape of xenohealth (cit. @lai @DrRitaIssa, see comments): an understanding that the conversation about AI are really not about AI, but our ability to co-exists among us and among trillions of vastly different "ingressing minds" (cit. @drmichaellevin)
