It's the nature of this conversation to become digressive and to conflate and involve it with many disciplines. Magic is like Dungeon-Mastering, it's the most interdisciplinary of activities.
But returning to the requisite state to address this conception of a hierarchical sense of being. The Organism has a physiological presence and investment in the realm of mass and space and time - so the organism innately understands its possession but what is that possession?
So you're driving down the street - there's a sign ahead that indicates the Speed Limit is different. Does the speed limit change when you see the sign? When you pass the sign? What is the domain of the sign? What is the domain of the person, everything seen, everything controlled, held, touched? The body is the least expression of possession, the largest is the dominion of the conqueror - but in either and all cases between the domain is dominion, what can be made and expressed as the body and the self. L'état, c'est moi isn't hyperbole in this construction, it's only vanity.
This isn't the sum of all things, this is the temporal reality of a proximate control extending from the fleshy center. You're not wrong to look at the school or the hive or the colony - the cells are colonies that conspire to create identity - weird stochastic emergence - but the lines are strangely drawn - why is the cellular colony of my hand Mine, but the molecular colony of my clothing mine, and consider the transition, the taking - of the cotton from the plant, the wool from the sheep - to make my own things my own. It's this contemplation that leads up the hierarchy of being - out of temporal immediate experience toward planning and interrelationships between other self-possessing colonal organisms.
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Date: 2014-04-21 04:03 pm (UTC)But returning to the requisite state to address this conception of a hierarchical sense of being. The Organism has a physiological presence and investment in the realm of mass and space and time - so the organism innately understands its possession but what is that possession?
So you're driving down the street - there's a sign ahead that indicates the Speed Limit is different. Does the speed limit change when you see the sign? When you pass the sign? What is the domain of the sign? What is the domain of the person, everything seen, everything controlled, held, touched? The body is the least expression of possession, the largest is the dominion of the conqueror - but in either and all cases between the domain is dominion, what can be made and expressed as the body and the self. L'état, c'est moi isn't hyperbole in this construction, it's only vanity.
This isn't the sum of all things, this is the temporal reality of a proximate control extending from the fleshy center. You're not wrong to look at the school or the hive or the colony - the cells are colonies that conspire to create identity - weird stochastic emergence - but the lines are strangely drawn - why is the cellular colony of my hand Mine, but the molecular colony of my clothing mine, and consider the transition, the taking - of the cotton from the plant, the wool from the sheep - to make my own things my own. It's this contemplation that leads up the hierarchy of being - out of temporal immediate experience toward planning and interrelationships between other self-possessing colonal organisms.