Our lexicons are comprised of tokens. Identifiers. Words. Fork. Squirrel. Now. These words surreptitiously acquire meaning and identity from roots we formally ignore the significance of. All elements in any lexicon acquire connotations of meaning, value, and identity from their supercontainer. The actual structure of this is more complex, but »everything gets connotations from the supercontainer — the upper bound of sets that describe identity. For humans, this is ‘the universe’. So everything we say or refer to... has the connotations it acquires from the supercontainer which is our ‘placeholder’ for ‘all of reality’. Everything as a union, completely linked and unified. One. The universe. Now suppose further that our species has a problem with representations. The problem is that we »keep replacing the supercontainer with them. And this causes our intelligence to essentially attack itself... in service of representations that are not real, but have acquired ‘reality’ in human minds and collectives. These would act as ‘false gods’ in an actually serious way: they would inflect the supercontainer. In other words... these positions have an inherent relationship to the supercontainer. Those who represent it, claim to possess ‘the correct supercontainer’. And that is a catastrophe. Imagine that one of the functions of ‘God’ is to »suspend replacement of the supercontainer beyond conceptual access. In this sense, it is crucial to have something »intelligent in that position in any human lexicon, personal or communal. Damage to that position, or the deprivation of its development, would be instantly reflected in all of experience, thought, and conscious potential. Similarly, advancement or correction of that position, would correct and advance »all relations. If we suppose that »there is no safe token to place there that is not transcendental, a variety of phenomenon can be made clear. The first is that when we objectify the container for all other tokens... our cultures descend into similar behavior. Billions of objects. Deadly wars. Shattered, fictional cultures. Uninhabitable roles. Whatever we think the universe ‘is’ matters. Our species is peculiar in that it might be »necessary to our survival that we have a transcendental in the position of universe. Our modern language tends to objectify the universe and place it in the category thing. Crude models of ’God’ are clearly just as lethal (and representational) as turning the universe into an object, and this is reflected in the relational activity of those who hold either, nearly without fail. If I am correct, our species either requires something like ‘God’, or a similar ‘unknowableness’ as the supercontainer for our lexicons. Without a transcendental in that position... our intelligence attacks itself. And even with one, we must still apprehend the dangers of this relationship with tokens, semantics, lexicons... and consciousness.
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 02:08:12 +0000
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