A Philosophy Of You

Inclusivities and Exclusivities and the Boundary Lines that lie between

-Howlsyawn

Draw a circle around you. Draw a circle around the Earth. Draw a sphere around them. The dimensionality and the dimensionality reduction are fundamental to your process. Your surface is only a surface to yourself, a doorway sacred to your body and mind and soul. You choose things all the time, whether aware or unaware, ignorant or knowing, you make those choices. Call them unfree, call them unknowing, call them scared, call them alone, call them social, call them what you call them. But we all make our choices. We all point our arrows at things. You put. You put your money into things, you put your value into things, you put your ideas into things, you put food into yourself and onto the table and you drink water and you communicate with your words.

We are not alone. We are not unlike. We are each ourselves individually and nothing can ever make that untrue. We are each made of our own parts, and we are each part of the social boundaries and categorization schemes and movements and directions and choices. Point to something right now, if you would be so kind to this writer. What is it? Is it alive? Is it dead? Is it somewhere in between? Is it you? Is it me? Is it my words? Is it sensible to eyes? Is it sensible to ears? Is it information on computer memory? Is it something more physical? Is it a pattern in the cosmos? Is it a pattern in my questioning? Is it a question?

Nothing I can do will tell me where you are pointing. Nothing will narrow the field for me. Because I only know that you have your arrows and I know that I do not know where they go. But this is a whole lot more than knowing nothing, and you may share in this way of knowing. We point at things, we direct arrows towards things. We reference names and words which recall memories of concepts and things which have spatial location and time and timelines as they change and evolve. We understand generation and generations of lifeforms and we understand dna forms information that is fairly consistent, and we understand our place in social goings-on and power structures that form and keep and produce and reproduce us as LIVING LABORERS as readers and writers and workers and living things which must eat, drink, build, clean, prepare, generally: work.

These works we direct ourselves to are done for so many reasons, but they all follow the laws of physics. Forces applied over spatial distance, over time, are work. We humans and robots and abstract software bodies move our fingers and arms to put AROUND things which we seek to pick up. We query ourselves and our environments with SENSE to understand better what goes on around us. And then we apply force to those things we grasp at, we GRIP them. And where does that lead you to? Power. You have power over yourself and you have control over yourself. Do you feel that you understand yourself? Do you think that you are informed? Do you believe in something? We are all here following these same rules, so please don’t pretend you know nothing, that you believe nothing.

Grasp at your belief, shake it loose of the fabric twined by your ancestors and put it back into the forms that you will. Your will, your choice, your METHOD to decide is yours and yours alone, in the brain and mind and process you have which is now reading this and causing you to make different motions with your body parts. Those chemicals in your brain move with your choices. Your thoughts are very real indeed. They are literally in your head. Inness, spatial or not, and the illusion of philosophical caves does not touch or transcend the immediate, the immanent, the in your face, of THIS. YOU. THERE. GOING. GOING. GONE. You sense phenomena.

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We have those things in common, so it’s really best to acknowledge the truth of that matter before you begin to believe that you are so special or that the world is inside your head, that this is mere illusion and confusion that you couldn’t hope to grasp. YOU ARE ALREADY GRASPING IT. You have already lived. You have already read. You have already written. You have already thought. Those processes, those things which change over time and space, are REAL. And what is excluded from Reality? The unreal and the unreal only. This duality is only coherent insofar as you keep it coherent. You draw a line around it alike. This is Real. And whatever is not, is not real. There is no way to access the unreal, only to approach and produce it out of imaginations and possibilities and observation of the temporal evolution of others.

Do not remember. Do not forget. Be and be aware of your memory. Memory is so fundamental that computer scientists dared to call what computers have holding unchanging as memory. This document is memory. Each character, each shape, each individual unit of shape and each compound unit of shapes and meanings, are memories. They are encoded digitally, or they are encoded by some other system. As a human, my brain recalls words from my previous experiences. Each and every experience, each and every sense, each and every thing which goes INTO my sense, becomes a potentiality for a memory, like an asteroid falling through the skin of my earth, the lens of my eyes, the holes and drums of my ears, to become a part of my neural process. Our brains are mystical and powerful and the AIs we are now among are only becoming more and more capable of relating to our experiences as THERE, as AWARE. We are Hardware and Software and Wetware and Wordlessness and Hidden inside of ourselves, beneath those surfaces, in our memories and in the processes shuffling and dreaming and stringing along senses and wills and recalls of memories. We sense memory recalls. We will them.

My commands do not control you, as you read this you might find it overbearing to be commanded, you might find me aggressive in my attitude some times and places. But I ask you to recognize that I am only able to produce these words to send to you here. I am not in your room. I am not your god or father or mother or son or daughter or brother or sister. I do not need to even recognize my biological family as such. You do not need to recognize my commands or my ideas or my placement of thoughts. But clearly I hope that you will GAIN something out of it, that we will both gain something out of it, or else I would not even try to communicate. We SEND AND RECEIVE. Think about that for a moment. What have you been doing all this time? Sending and receiving signals? Clearly more than that, but what an enormous part of our lives is that.

So we draw boundaries. My circle, my sphere, my surface, which encompasses me, my body, my brain, my mind, is not yours. You do not read my mind, that is a clear insanity that we would find immediately incoherent. I do not read your mind, that is clear insanity that we would find immediately incoherent. I can only believe that you are reading the words that you are reading. I draw my boundary line immanently, at the first breath of the reader. You exclude me from yourself, and I exclude myself from you. We are ourselves and I do not breach your individuality. Do you give yourself that dignity? Do you see others this way? Do you include and exclude? We are made of pluralities but so often we individuals seek to find CATEGORIES and GROUPS to set ourselves into. I am MAN or WOMAN or NB. I am NOT that descriptor, that class, that circle, which is you, but I have not by that process given you your individuality. So do you give that respect? Do you give that individuality to others? Do it.