Saturday, March 26, 2005

The Coming of the Overman - a Whole-Hole?

Biotechnology and psychopharmacology will be the new philosophy of the 21 Century on the condition that it can interact with certain “selective” elements of the western religious-aesthetic-philosophical tradition - biotechnology and psychopharmacology without philosophy is blind and philosophy without biotechnology and psychopharmacology is empty.

For the first time in history human beings will have the power over their matter, but nature, genes and neurons are empty voids and the question will remain what spirit/soul will fill the gaping void…where will the semantics come from? Can our past forms, thoughts and traditions be enough? …one can imagine the future overman having overcome all limits (i.e. matter) and finding himself to be a sublime “what” without a “why”…where will the world of our empty words come from? As Heidegger said, animals do not have a world…what about the overman?: the sublime animality of the future.

One must avoid the AI syndrome of the last decade: the reduction of intelligence and understanding to formal circuits with the secret hope that by magic the world will automatically fill itself in. It won’t….the gaping whole-hole of syntax will always remain…unholy question marks in the secular fluxes of electronic circuits…

The semantic sun that gives invisible light is nowhere to be seen…the overman will have killed not only god which is fair enough since he never existed, killed man an even more ludicrous philosophical joke, but also his sun: - the spirit/soul that also never existed - but with a big difference that humanity won’t survive that ambiguous sun death …This is why Nietzsche was so afraid of the age of nihilism he would rather have another 2000 years of Christianity than the Kali age of nihilism: not the creative destruction of Kali or the cosmic dance of Shiva but rather the laser efficiency of stellar supermarkets orbiting a Whole-Hole….where the overman will walk his overdog on the select perfection of a clear moon and contemplate the immensity of the universe and will…will…will…no doubt try to stifle a yawn…