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+\chap\nl
 
-How did this development come to be? Surely more forces were at work than \enquote{Progress?} This
+How did this development come to be? Surely more forces were at work than \dq{Progress?} This
 essay is not a history of the information revolution, but some mention must be made in passing. At
 some point during the Second World War, a series of decisions to computerize were reached. The
 overriding concerns were military and intelligence applications. It should be noted that private
 industry would never have invested in this, or any other development. Without government investment,
 bankers are paragons of timidity. 
 
-The founders of the information, or cybernetic age, were Alan Turing, John Von Neuman, Norbert
+The founders of the information, or cybernetic age, were Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Norbert
 Wiener, Claude Shannon and later, Noam Chomsky. Hordes of electrical engineers---whether they
 understood what they were doing or not---reworked almost every philosophical problem known to
 humans in terms of circuitry and programming languages. These problems began, of course, centuries
-ago. For instance the epistimological question: what is knowledge, how do we know, how do we know we
+ago. For instance the epistemological question: what is knowledge, how do we know, how do we know we
 know, how does it relate to the world outside, who controls knowledge, who has it and who does not,
 what is it worth, how do we talk about it (which is the question of what language we shall use and
 how shall we talk), and what instrumentalities we perceive through. 
@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ how shall we talk), and what instrumentalities we perceive through.
 Questions of the technology of knowing must be interwoven with political and economic considerations
 (within the confines of what is scientifically and technologically possible), which is to say
 knowledge systems are structured like intelligence and counter-intelligence systems. There is to be
-written a whole history of secret and coded knowledges\ldots\ priestly systems, rites, hierarchies and
-ceremonies of learning and passage, memory systems, networks of initiates\ldots\ In addition, one should
+written a whole history of secret and coded knowledges\ld\ priestly systems, rites, hierarchies and
+ceremonies of learning and passage, memory systems, networks of initiates\ld\ In addition, one should
 ask: why did one set of systems triumph---that is to say, why were they preserved, and
 remembered---and others fail? There is room for a history of the politics of the promotion, funding
-and triumph of intellectual knowledge systems and this includes the rememberance of the major
+and triumph of intellectual knowledge systems and this includes the remembrance of the major
 streams of philosophy. Philosophy is one of the atmospheric backgrounds which provides for a general
 and unified state of perception against which day to day knowledge is learned. 
 
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@ choices? It was easier to design electrical circuits that could carry out the lo
 The system began slowly, went on line massively with mainframes and minis in the fifties, mostly in
 defense and intelligence applications, followed closely by banking and business. 
 
-In the seventies, a massive campaign was mounted to \enquote{democratize} the computer. The micro
+In the seventies, a massive campaign was mounted to \dq{democratize} the computer. The micro
 was developed by small, innovative businessmen-technicians. Sales propaganda was disseminated in the
-name of enlightenment, efficiency, transcendance and power. Every possible sales technique known to
+name of enlightenment, efficiency, transcendence and power. Every possible sales technique known to
 public relations, advertising and mythology was employed to sell the computer. Not only were ancient
 and modern symbols deployed, but also fear. It became possible, we were told, to have a computer in
-the home that was once as large as a building\ldots\ and did the same work. 
+the home that was once as large as a building\ld\ and did the same work. 
 
-One notes the parallel developments and \enquote{needs}: The committment to the Great Theater of
+One notes the parallel developments and \dq{needs}: The commitment to the Great Theater of
 perpetual war as the pressure system out of which innovation and invention and progress came. This
 generated a need for a vast corps of mind-workers. Cheap education produced intellectuals. This led
 not only to the further proliferation of mindworkers, but of mediators and mediational systems.
@@ -56,14 +56,14 @@ deconstructionists; quantifiers; metricians; statisticians; propagandists; accou
 lawyers and proliferators of law; interactivists (and their connecting machineries); cosmic and
 microcosmic theoreticians; agronomists; doctors; philosophical logicians and inventors of yet newer
 and newer mathematics; salesmen; priests and ministers and inventors of yet-new religions; logical
-and scientific astrologers\ldots\ And now, in the present age, all this to be machined. 
+and scientific astrologers\ld\ And now, in the present age, all this to be machined. 
 
 They sought both unity and fragmentation. Now one must admit that there is a propensity in some
 humans to generate new unifying theories and technologies while at the same time inventing and
-proliferating new explanatory systems and new subtheories\ldots\ all of which promise to explain
+proliferating new explanatory systems and new subtheories\ld\ all of which promise to explain
 everything. This seems to be a function of the density of intellectuals, in terms of availability of
 jobs and competition, both relative and absolute, to a general and non-theorizing population. This
-insures that a fair percentage of those theories will be nonsensical, if not fraudulent\ldots\ which is
+insures that a fair percentage of those theories will be nonsensical, if not fraudulent\ld\ which is
 no impediment to their triumph. 
 
 In addition, general systems theory took hold, and every aspect of the universe was designated a
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ least incrementally---the sum of human knowledge. Accompanying this development
 agenda: the compulsion to impose order, predictability, to eliminate risk and uncertainty. But as
 far as this ancient agenda was concerned, the commitment should be shared, paid for by some part of
 the public. New processes would in turn create still newer knowledge. And, as all things happen in
-this modern society, the \enquote{system,} with all of its attendant confusions, complexities and
+this modern society, the \dq{system,} with all of its attendant confusions, complexities and
 corruptions, with its intense conflicts among the different programs, systems and equipment
 manufacturers, with its political and business battles, has been laid on in the most haphazard,
 ridiculous, expensive, inefficient and disorganized way (repeating our earlier history of canals,
@@ -83,41 +83,39 @@ railroads, highways, transit systems, communications and technology in general).
 conflict of computer, communicating and language-conversion systems with many fundamental problems
 still unsolved. 
 
-
-(And here, lest we forget that the problem is not merely \enquote{intellectual,} we must remember
+(And here, lest we forget that the problem is not merely \dq{intellectual,} we must remember
 concrete institutions with which intellectuals are connected, and who provide their funding. How,
 and to whom, ideas are sold: we must think about AT\&T, Sperry-Rand, IT\&T, IBM, Citicorp and
-Chase\ldots\ We must also not forget that there are unwritten and true histories to be done of the
+Chase\ld\ We must also not forget that there are unwritten and true histories to be done of the
 Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, the CIA, all intelligence agencies of the
 world, and how the intellectual thought of these agencies permeates every aspect of everyday life.
 We must think about the politics of international and national communications policy and how these
 issues are fought out in corporations, legislative bodies and regulatory agencies. We must think of
 pricing, advertising, marketing, promotion, generations of faulty computers, paper computers,
-imbecilic competiton, suppression of innovation, influence-peddling, lobbying, bribes, kickbacks and
-the rest of the common paraphenalia of business\ldots\ especially at a time when business becomes
-ever-more \enquote{intellectualized.}) 
+imbecilic competition, suppression of innovation, influence-peddling, lobbying, bribes, kickbacks and
+the rest of the common paraphernalia of business\ld\ especially at a time when business becomes
+ever-more \dq{intellectualized.}) 
 
-There was a nescessity to translate all living and non-living forms, to simulate events and natural
-processes, to chart their interactions and simulate thse interrelations and to begin to fill the
-memory and data banks. This growing assemblage gradually becomes the total environment\ldots\ at least
+There was a necessity to translate all living and non-living forms, to simulate events and natural
+processes, to chart their interactions and simulate those interrelations and to begin to fill the
+memory and data banks. This growing assemblage gradually becomes the total environment\ld\ at least
 for a few. These developments are new but are also, at the same time, the fulfillment of an ancient
-desire: to control the material world by the manipulation of secret know]ledge (secret, in modern
+desire: to control the material world by the manipulation of secret knowledge (secret, in modern
 times, by being priced, being made into intellectual property, being classified). How does this
 differ from the practices of ancient priests, shamans, magicians? 
 
 Ancient magicians thought they could control the environment. How did information control the
 material world in the past? By assuming a connection between the internal system of intellectual
-order and the \emph{external} system of \emph{material} order. One controlled the cosmos by the uses
+order and the \e{external} system of \e{material} order. One controlled the cosmos by the uses
 of resonances and dissonances, rhythms compatible with the true natural rhythm of the spheres, by
 the use of a chant, an incantation, a dance, a ritual; or one could apply sacred geometry,
-controlling shapes that were analogous to the shape of the worlds one wanted to dominate\ldots\
+controlling shapes that were analogous to the shape of the worlds one wanted to dominate\ld\
 magic. Magic embodies a primitive theory of electromagnetism and telecommunication. Magic desires to
 achieve telepathy and teleportation. Voodoo, for instance, contains the notion of a communicating
 medium and the communicants who believe in it. The Catholic Church is a communicating organism with
 an apparatus of switches and relays and a communicating language for the input of prayers through a
 churchly switchboard up to Heaven, and outputs returned to the supplicant. And above all, all
-ancient and primitive systems implicitly propose the notion of an ordered, coherant universe,
+ancient and primitive systems implicitly propose the notion of an ordered, coherent universe,
 expressible in a certain set of languages, the manipulation of which manipulates the universe. The
 question is: do these systems manipulate the universe or a simulation of the universe? What certain
-intellectuals in modern society propose is electromagic. 
-
+intellectuals in modern society propose is electromagic. 
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 \chapter{}
 
-Beginning, perhaps, in the 17\ts{th} century, a few had embarked on a program of "modernizing' society; shattering old categories and languages while inventing new ones. Leibniz, for instance, dreamed of a logical\slash mathematical-based universal language. One of the great agendas of the 18\ts{th} and 19\ts{th} centuries was a vast program of reclassification. There was also an attempt to trace back all modern languages to a primal Indo-European tongue. Past and present humans, societies, languages, plants and animals were arranged on a progressive scale (and this was a continuation of the Renaissance, which had introjected the past, ancient Greece, into its program of liberation from medieval thinking). New theories and new disciplines emerged: economics, politics, psychology, sociology, history, the physical sciences, mythology, anthropology\ldots\ all split off from philosophy. These new disciplines began to atomize and reconstruct, emphasizing quantification. They were partial fictions and suffered all the difficulties of translation; each developed their own jargons, hard and soft tools, aesthetics, formal modes of organizing the perception of the world, creating new mediating lenses between humans, and between humans and the natural world. In time, each one of these disciplines claimed to be a total world view \ldots\ as did each mitotic sub-discipline. General systems theory and interdisciplinary studies began to emerge in the early twentieth century. Now, in the tail end of the 20\ts{th} century, are remelted into the general category of information and communication theory.
+Beginning, perhaps, in the 17\textsuperscript{th} century, a few had embarked on a program of \dq{modernizing} society; shattering old categories and languages while inventing new ones. Leibniz, for instance, dreamed of a logical\slash mathematical-based universal language. One of the great agendas of the 18\textsuperscript{th} and 19\textsuperscript{th} centuries was a vast program of reclassification. There was also an attempt to trace back all modern languages to a primal Indo-European tongue. Past and present humans, societies, languages, plants and animals were arranged on a progressive scale (and this was a continuation of the Renaissance, which had introjected the past, ancient Greece, into its program of liberation from medieval thinking). New theories and new disciplines emerged: economics, politics, psychology, sociology, history, the physical sciences, mythology, anthropology\ld\ all split off from philosophy. These new disciplines began to atomize and reconstruct, emphasizing quantification. They were partial fictions and suffered all the difficulties of translation; each developed their own jargons, hard and soft tools, aesthetics, formal modes of organizing the perception of the world, creating new mediating lenses between humans, and between humans and the natural world. In time, each one of these disciplines claimed to be a total world view \ld\ as did each mitotic sub-discipline. General systems theory and interdisciplinary studies began to emerge in the early twentieth century. Now, in the tail end of the 20\textsuperscript{th} century, are remelted into the general category of information and communication theory.
 
-The information age required a vast new enterprise: an enormous translation or conversion project; a reduction of all disciplines into a kind of symbolic, quantified representation --- a new universal language which would translate the languages, dialects and jargons of all languages and disciplines --- appropriate to the basic circuit logics in the computers. Bit by bit the differences between disciplines and disparate bodies of knowledge (as well as living and non-living bodies considered as language) are becoming eroded. This endeavor implied a perhaps fictional notion; that the universe and everything in it is logico-mathematical. It also implied that all things and forces in the universe could be treated as a cryptogram, a code, a text that could be \emph{read}, sooner or later. Another and muted implication was that all things in the universe were in some sense \emph{perceptually} simultaneous.
+The information age required a vast new enterprise: an enormous translation or conversion project; a reduction of all disciplines into a kind of symbolic, quantified representation---a new universal language which would translate the languages, dialects and jargons of all languages and disciplines---appropriate to the basic circuit logics in the computers. Bit by bit the differences between disciplines and disparate bodies of knowledge (as well as living and non-living bodies considered as language) are becoming eroded. This endeavor implied a perhaps fictional notion; that the universe and everything in it is logico-mathematical. It also implied that all things and forces in the universe could be treated as a cryptogram, a code, a text that could be \e{read}, sooner or later. Another and muted implication was that all things in the universe were in some sense \e{perceptually} simultaneous.
 
 The general computer-compatible\slash general systems-schema runs something like this:
-\begin{enumerate}
-	\item Anything (or anyone) that can be exactly specified can be automated.
-	\item Inferential, judgemental, learned or adaptive behavior can be specified (which raises the problem of translation or conversion of knowledge to information).
-	\item Intuitional and creative activity can be indistinguishably simulated by machine (the drive for artificial intelligence).
-	\item All this can be communicated from machine to machine, for the speeds of transmission means that messages are distance-insensitive (relatively speaking).
-	\item Which means that one has to deal with complexes of social sets and the way in which they, or the information they have, or that represents them (not the same thing) can be communicated.
-	\item Information is passed among (or taken from, or imposed on) the sets (but they also frequently resist this passage or appropriation of knowledge about themselves: this implies hierarchy of information systems).
-	\item The forces which produce stability inside these social sets create instability among the sets.
-	\item From the point of view of the general systematizers, an improvement between and among all social sets (and the way they interpret themselves and the world\ldots\ or the way in which they are interpretable) leads to a better management of the metasystem's information.
-\end{enumerate}
+\begitems\style n
+* Anything (or anyone) that can be exactly specified can be automated.
+* Inferential, judgemental, learned or adaptive behavior can be specified (which raises the problem of translation or conversion of knowledge to information).
+* Intuitional and creative activity can be indistinguishably simulated by machine (the drive for artificial intelligence).
+* All this can be communicated from machine to machine, for the speeds of transmission means that messages are distance-insensitive (relatively speaking).
+* Which means that one has to deal with complexes of social sets and the way in which they, or the information they have, or that represents them (not the same thing) can be communicated.
+* Information is passed among (or taken from, or imposed on) the sets (but they also frequently resist this passage or appropriation of knowledge about themselves: this implies hierarchy of information systems).
+* The forces which produce stability inside these social sets create instability among the sets.
+* From the point of view of the general systematizers, an improvement between and among all social sets (and the way they interpret themselves and the world\ld\ or the way in which they are interpretable) leads to a better management of the metasystem's information.
+\enditems
 
 But from whose point of view?
 
-By the \enquote{social set} we mean a population which has a language, a mode of discourse and a set of customs (by which the language it uses is processed) existing in a variety of domains or environments, using sets and subsets of natural and artificial languages; bureacracies, corporations, secret societies, individuals, professional societies, classes (in the social sense), ethnicities and races, disciplines, nations, regions, hierarchies\ldots\ and so forth\ldots\ in whatever ways society has been split, conceptually and actually. These, of course, overlap. It is apparent that for all these groupings, the means for universal discourse hasn't been invented yet and what's more, many resist translation actively. All the propositions point directly at the problem of translation, or the generation of a universal language.
+By the \dq{social set} we mean a population which has a language, a mode of discourse and a set of customs (by which the language it uses is processed) existing in a variety of domains or environments, using sets and subsets of natural and artificial languages; bureaucracies, corporations, secret societies, individuals, professional societies, classes (in the social sense), ethnicities and races, disciplines, nations, regions, hierarchies\ld\ and so forth\ld\ in whatever ways society has been split, conceptually and actually. These, of course, overlap. It is apparent that for all these groupings, the means for universal discourse hasn't been invented yet and what's more, many resist translation actively. All the propositions point directly at the problem of translation, or the generation of a universal language.
 
-Systems-building has gone on since the beginning of the appearance of humans. Even the most \enquote{primitive} of groupings builds all-encompassing (and complexly muddled) systems. Underlying this newest global climacteric, this vast re-writing program, was a not particularly new set of assumptions: that any set of things, events, forces linking people and events could be represented by some language, or set of languages, logics, numbers, letters, symbols, signs\ldots\ That there is an ultimate and fundamental language, a deep structure in the universe \ldots\ and that it is mathematicological and is discoverable and translatable\ldots\ These representations could be linked in several ways: language to language and language to the world represented by these languages ... into interactive and mobile structures that in some way match, dance in time to the underlying and fundamental language of the universe (automated natural language translation is a disaster). When things and people move, the signs representing their existence are communicated to this informational technosphere. Conversely, when signs, symbols, language elements, variables of all sorts are moved, people, things, whole economies, the universe and all that is in it, should move. This manipulator's dream is possible only if information is connected to the universe in some concrete way, requiring sensors, languages, translators, categories and levers.
+Systems-building has gone on since the beginning of the appearance of humans. Even the most \dq{primitive} of groupings builds all-encompassing (and complexly muddled) systems. Underlying this newest global climacteric, this vast re-writing program, was a not particularly new set of assumptions: that any set of things, events, forces linking people and events could be represented by some language, or set of languages, logics, numbers, letters, symbols, signs\ld\ That there is an ultimate and fundamental language, a deep structure in the universe \ld\ and that it is mathematicological and is discoverable and translatable\ld\ These representations could be linked in several ways: language to language and language to the world represented by these languages \ld\ into interactive and mobile structures that in some way match, dance in time to the underlying and fundamental language of the universe (automated natural language translation is a disaster). When things and people move, the signs representing their existence are communicated to this informational technosphere. Conversely, when signs, symbols, language elements, variables of all sorts are moved, people, things, whole economies, the universe and all that is in it, should move. This manipulator's dream is possible only if information is connected to the universe in some concrete way, requiring sensors, languages, translators, categories and levers.
 
-The sensors (eyes, ears, skin, writers of books, typists, telescopes, microscopes, electronic sensors of all kinds ... and so forth) must \enquote{read}, transmit and input these signs of movement into some kind of storage where language could work on them (meaning the incredible complex of miniscule and high speed movement in the circuits, in and out of the various logical devices and timers and storages ... ). Contrariwise, a set of language-motivated output levers could, theoretically, energize and change the configuration of the universe. (In quantum, operationally-oriented physics, this interventionary notion, that mere thought and its instrumentalities affect the universe---in yet unmeasurable ways---is implicit. By extension, mere thought affects the universe, but in as yet unmeasurable ways.) This desire reflects an ancient obsession; the Archimedean dream of minimal expenditures of energy moving great masses, for example shifting the great nebula in Andromeda into a better orbit.
+The sensors (eyes, ears, skin, writers of books, typists, telescopes, microscopes, electronic sensors of all kinds \ld\ and so forth) must \dq{read}, transmit and input these signs of movement into some kind of storage where language could work on them (meaning the incredible complex of miniscule and high speed movement in the circuits, in and out of the various logical devices and timers and storages \ld\ ). Contrariwise, a set of language-motivated output levers could, theoretically, energize and change the configuration of the universe. (In quantum, operationally-oriented physics, this interventionary notion, that mere thought and its instrumentalities affect the universe---in yet unmeasurable ways---is implicit. By extension, mere thought affects the universe, but in as yet unmeasurable ways.) This desire reflects an ancient obsession; the Archimedean dream of minimal expenditures of energy moving great masses, for example shifting the great nebula in Andromeda into a better orbit.
 
-All of these desires occasions the search for the universal system-langauge which is, at the same time, the \emph{real} language of the universe, the ultimate \enquote{machine code.} A recourse to what can be considered gnostic wisdom, Pythagoreanism, or Kaballism: these are used as key words to exemplify a way of thinking. Pythagoreanism was both a mathematical and a magical system. Number translates into space and converely; all is number and geometry. Kaballism and gnosticism are fundamentally literary. Cartesian thinking carried this obsession further, turning space into a vast, suburban real-estate development. Kaballa views the universe as \enquote{word} (although \enquote{word} translates into number games: \emph{Gematria}). Considered from the perspective of these ancient magical systems: gnosticism, hermeticism, the religion of the Jains, the I-Ching, Rosicrucianism, alchemy and astrology, all the material universe is translatable. But this is to throw a net of language out into the universe, and is the precursor, perhaps, to quantum physics and operational indeterminacy.
+All of these desires occasions the search for the universal system-language which is, at the same time, the \e{real} language of the universe, the ultimate \dq{machine code.} A recourse to what can be considered gnostic wisdom, Pythagoreanism, or Kabbalism: these are used as key words to exemplify a way of thinking. Pythagoreanism was both a mathematical and a magical system. Number translates into space and conversely; all is number and geometry. Kabbalism and gnosticism are fundamentally literary. Cartesian thinking carried this obsession further, turning space into a vast, suburban real-estate development. Kabbalah views the universe as \dq{word} (although \dq{word} translates into number games: \e{Gematria}). Considered from the perspective of these ancient magical systems: gnosticism, hermeticism, the religion of the Jains, the I-Ching, Rosicrucianism, alchemy and astrology, all the material universe is translatable. But this is to throw a net of language out into the universe, and is the precursor, perhaps, to quantum physics and operational indeterminacy.
 
-None of this denies the need for the creation of language but points toward a recurrant obsession with language as the ultimate reality. What drives this obsession?
+None of this denies the need for the creation of language but points toward a recurrent obsession with language as the ultimate reality. What drives this obsession?
 
-The hunt for the ultimate, sacred, or secular, usable, transmissible knowledge or information is like a vision of, a penetration to a sacred realm where total, instantaneous, universal and all-purpose code, exists. This kind of thinking assumes an underlying, unified universe. To match this universe, somewhere, somehow, there exists, and is decodeable (if only in visions and dreams) an underlying language, an ultimate metalanguage, a deep structure of grammar, a boss language of all boss languages to match that reality. And that meta-language is basically mathematical, logical, rational. \enquote{In The Beginning was The Word and The Word was made Flesh.}
+The hunt for the ultimate, sacred, or secular, usable, transmissible knowledge or information is like a vision of, a penetration to a sacred realm where total, instantaneous, universal and all-purpose code, exists. This kind of thinking assumes an underlying, unified universe. To match this universe, somewhere, somehow, there exists, and is decodable (if only in visions and dreams) an underlying language, an ultimate metalanguage, a deep structure of grammar, a boss language of all boss languages to match that reality. And that meta-language is basically mathematical, logical, rational. \dq{In The Beginning was The Word and The Word was made Flesh.}
 
-(In anticipation, let's propose several such languages: the language of genetics, the language of quantum-relativistic particle physics, the language of finance, the language of mathematical logic, the language of literature \ldots which includes the psychoanalytical disciplines. There are more.)
+(In anticipation, let's propose several such languages: the language of genetics, the language of quantum-relativistic particle physics, the language of finance, the language of mathematical logic, the language of literature \ld which includes the psychoanalytical disciplines. There are more.)
 
-However out of this uniform ur-language has come Babel. That is to say pure Word, pure light (ultimate information), being made into Flesh, yielded corruption, decay, dialects, death, a plethora of languages. Or, from the evolutionary geneticist's point of view, diversity, uniqueness, adaptability to material conditions, non-repeatability \ldots \emph{quality}. Diversity is the way to disorder, chaos, entropy, a confusion of languages. Specialized knowledges divide into languages, sub-languages, jargons (even putting it this way assumes primal unity); specializations fragment futher the possible wholeness into cultures, sexes, nations, races\ldots Truly unlike languages have unlike assumptions behind them; they cannot translate. This arises out of observing the bewildering array of languages, proliferated into mutually incomprehensible dialects, a diversity of natural languages, in a short period of time. But worse, the presence of, the possibility of incompatible languages intimates that the underlying \emph{physical} universe is not one. Again, chaos. These \enquote{mutations} puzzle and anger the unifiers. They take steps to correct the process of decay and dissolution. (As the first Rockefeller put it: \enquote{Combination is the wave of the future,} in more ways than one.)
+However out of this uniform ur-language has come Babel. That is to say pure Word, pure light (ultimate information), being made into Flesh, yielded corruption, decay, dialects, death, a plethora of languages. Or, from the evolutionary geneticist's point of view, diversity, uniqueness, adaptability to material conditions, non-repeatability\ld\ \e{quality}. Diversity is the way to disorder, chaos, entropy, a confusion of languages. Specialized knowledges divide into languages, sub-languages, jargons (even putting it this way assumes primal unity); specializations fragment further the possible wholeness into cultures, sexes, nations, races\ld\ Truly unlike languages have unlike assumptions behind them; they cannot translate. This arises out of observing the bewildering array of languages, proliferated into mutually incomprehensible dialects, a diversity of natural languages, in a short period of time. But worse, the presence of, the possibility of incompatible languages intimates that the underlying \e{physical} universe is not one. Again, chaos. These \dq{mutations} puzzle and anger the unifiers. They take steps to correct the process of decay and dissolution. (As the first Rockefeller put it: \dq{Combination is the wave of the future,} in more ways than one.)
 
-If there is a fundamental oneness in the universe---particles seen one way, waves another---and all things, people and events, all singular events are manifested out of this fundament, then all change and process and people are mere aspects, illusion, perhaps developed over time. This \emph{ur}ness should have its own language, shouldn't it? Why this diversity? Or perhaps this \emph{ur}-language existed before the beginning of time? What happened to fragment pre-temporal paradise (which will become balanced at the other end by post-temporal paradise), this primal oneness, this \emph{quality}, leading to the shattering of Eden into cosmic Babel? The Fall? Sin? Imbalance?
+If there is a fundamental oneness in the universe---particles seen one way, waves another---and all things, people and events, all singular events are manifested out of this fundament, then all change and process and people are mere aspects, illusion, perhaps developed over time. This \e{ur}ness should have its own language, shouldn't it? Why this diversity? Or perhaps this \e{ur}-language existed before the beginning of time? What happened to fragment pre-temporal paradise (which will become balanced at the other end by post-temporal paradise), this primal oneness, this \e{quality}, leading to the shattering of Eden into cosmic Babel? The Fall? Sin? Imbalance?
 
-It is to offset the effects of a modern Babel that languages are constantly converted into one another, hopefully without losing anything. Work into COBOL; COBOL into Aramaic; Hebrew into digital \ldots and so forth. The universe and all that is in it is assumed to contain a secret code or cryptogram; the new language project, this drive toward fusion is designed to unlock the code (or perhaps its purpose is to \emph{invent} the code). Strings of biochemicals, DNA and RNA, are called a code or cryptogram. The code expresses and replicates to duplicate itself (with mutational and combinatorial variations) and becomes a body which eats food, converts it into energy to give growth to another body-shell in order to perpetuate a code, a language, a message. The body as a message transmitter.
+It is to offset the effects of a modern Babel that languages are constantly converted into one another, hopefully without losing anything. Work into {\tt COBOL}; {\tt COBOL} into Aramaic; Hebrew into digital \ld\ and so forth. The universe and all that is in it is assumed to contain a secret code or cryptogram; the new language project, this drive toward fusion is designed to unlock the code (or perhaps its purpose is to \e{invent} the code). Strings of biochemicals, DNA and RNA, are called a code or cryptogram. The code expresses and replicates to duplicate itself (with mutational and combinatorial variations) and becomes a body which eats food, converts it into energy to give growth to another body-shell in order to perpetuate a code, a language, a message. The body as a message transmitter.
 
-The wisdom of the east handles this problem another way: it announces that diversity is an illusion. The west, at present, holds that the clue to the ultimate bottom language is supposed to lie in the human mind: in some way this primal unity can be \emph{remembered}.
+The wisdom of the east handles this problem another way: it announces that diversity is an illusion. The west, at present, holds that the clue to the ultimate bottom language is supposed to lie in the human mind: in some way this primal unity can be \e{remembered}.
 
 (Remember Lucifer's tale before Eden was built? Consider the role of knowledge in the tale of Eden. There is a struggle over the possession of information and thus a fight to control the sacred language, or Lucifer's tale before Eden was built. Satan becomes the Lord of Diversity, the Lord of disinformation, disunity, chaos, entropy: Prometheus becomes the lord of stolen knowledge.)
 
-Word-obsessed Kaballistic or Gnostic lore anticipates the Big Bang. Many religions anticipate the Fall. The Big Bang leads to entropy: entropy leads to diversity. Humans, we are told, are themselves the creators of negentropy (holding the center together conceptually, if not physically) in the expanding universe, and so they invent unification and then start on the project\ldots The mental act of unification has evolved into a technological and informational endeavour. Diffusion is death; unification is eternal life. 
+Word-obsessed Kabbalistic or Gnostic lore anticipates the Big Bang. Many religions anticipate the Fall. The Big Bang leads to entropy: entropy leads to diversity. Humans, we are told, are themselves the creators of negentropy (holding the center together conceptually, if not physically) in the expanding universe, and so they invent unification and then start on the project\ld\ The mental act of unification has evolved into a technological and informational endeavour. Diffusion is death; unification is eternal life. 
 
-The division of knowledge into disciplines to pre-conceptually \enquote{observe} society was problematical to begin with. What assumptions were brought to this task? The newest synthesis raises new problems without solving the old ones. In order to achieve this translation, one should look at some underlying assumptions of western, perhaps human, thought. One fundamental tenet of this kind of thought is that one can take wholes, break them down into fundamental units and rebuild all up from those units, providing the structural operations, the \enquote{grammar} to string the units, complexes of units, into whole, new languages. In this newest approach, wholes are broken down into a language of irreducible particles (which are easy to account for, and match up to units that are either measureable and countable, modeleable, mappable, comparable: specifiable) and are built up again.
+The division of knowledge into disciplines to pre-conceptually \dq{observe} society was problematical to begin with. What assumptions were brought to this task? The newest synthesis raises new problems without solving the old ones. In order to achieve this translation, one should look at some underlying assumptions of western, perhaps human, thought. One fundamental tenet of this kind of thought is that one can take wholes, break them down into fundamental units and rebuild all up from those units, providing the structural operations, the \dq{grammar} to string the units, complexes of units, into whole, new languages. In this newest approach, wholes are broken down into a language of irreducible particles (which are easy to account for, and match up to units that are either measurable and countable, modelable, mappable, comparable: specifiable) and are built up again.
 
-Now, structuralist thought (which allows one to reorganize the positioning and sequencing of any text and relate it in new ways to any other text \ldots an exercise in simultaneity) and semiotics begins to treat life---including literary and media artifacts--- like a complex cryptogram, a treasure, always oblique, to be disinterred. It should be noted, however, that while this can be done with artifacts, with fictions, with records of the dead, it cannot be done in real life.
+Now, structuralist thought (which allows one to reorganize the positioning and sequencing of any text and relate it in new ways to any other text\ld\ an exercise in simultaneity) and semiotics begins to treat life---including literary and media artifacts---like a complex cryptogram, a treasure, always oblique, to be disinterred. It should be noted, however, that while this can be done with artifacts, with fictions, with records of the dead, it cannot be done in real life.
 
 One of the first rules of this game of interdictions is that almost nothing is allowed to mean what it first seemed to be. Novelists, priests, poets, mythmakers, magicians, have practiced this combinatorial and sequencing, this matching-up and conversionary pythagoreanism for centuries. Novelists, tied to certain traditions, were permitted to only see a limited set of realities and not others. In much the same way poverty is invisible in the board room, suffering is not a category to be found in an annual report.
 
-But the new constructs in the present contain an accretion from the past (a sort of memory) which is then used to rewrite and reconsider the past. (The act of \emph{primal} creation---and its time, or the \enquote{beginning} of time, and timing---didn't happen \emph{then} but is reinvented again and again, and happens \emph{now}, just as history is rewritten again and again to justify the present in order to assert that all events could only lead up to the inevitable present.)
+But the new constructs in the present contain an accretion from the past (a sort of memory) which is then used to rewrite and reconsider the past. (The act of \e{primal} creation---and its time, or the \dq{beginning} of time, and timing---didn't happen \e{then} but is reinvented again and again, and happens \e{now}, just as history is rewritten again and again to justify the present in order to assert that all events could only lead up to the inevitable present.)
 
-The newest instance of breakdown and buildup has led to several crises: atomic theory is in trouble. The breakdowns threaten to become endless. \enquote{Fundamental} particles proliferate; gravitons and chronons are invented alongside quarks which require prequarks. Every sub-atomic particle must be specified and recorded, creating firestorms of indeterminacy between all boundaries of thought (and reality), which allows for certain excesses of the imagination, the possibility of new transformations, shapeshifting and chimeras, creating arcane juxtapositions in the life of things, operations which once belonged to the realm of dreams. Unit-quantum thinking contains a history of obsessional perception since Democritus: the universe particularized ... wholes fragmented into quanta... This difficulty is apparent in psychosocial, statistical disciplines which study groups and individuals... atoms and wholes. And yet, at the same time, the universe is percieved as a unified and contiguous whole in which the most distant parts affect one another \ldots sooner or later.
+The newest instance of breakdown and buildup has led to several crises: atomic theory is in trouble. The breakdowns threaten to become endless. \dq{Fundamental} particles proliferate; gravitons and chronons are invented alongside quarks which require prequarks. Every sub-atomic particle must be specified and recorded, creating firestorms of indeterminacy between all boundaries of thought (and reality), which allows for certain excesses of the imagination, the possibility of new transformations, shapeshifting and chimeras, creating arcane juxtapositions in the life of things, operations which once belonged to the realm of dreams. Unit-quantum thinking contains a history of obsessional perception since Democritus: the universe particularized \ld\ wholes fragmented into quanta\ld\ This difficulty is apparent in psychosocial, statistical disciplines which study groups and individuals\ld\ atoms and wholes. And yet, at the same time, the universe is perceived as a unified and contiguous whole in which the most distant parts affect one another\ld\ sooner or later.
 
-Another complex contradiction to be considered: all could be viewed as the agglomeration of force-fields, electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, frequencies, which, when they reach some critical density, change into some other \enquote{quality.} (Or geometries, numbers, values, dimensions, symbols, images, gods, spirits, phantoms, cash, talk, drawings, dances \ldots ) One can look at humans as\slash of\slash in these fields in many ways, from many angles, through a variety of disciplinary lenses. Humans, for instance, could be considered as manifestations of the cosmological/astrophysical (and astrological) whole ... brothers, sisters, spawn of the stars; as biological manifestations concreting out of Fourier processes, complex waves inventing complexes of waves in order to explain the self. If so, then medicine based on physics, chemistry, molecular biology should, in time, be replaced by electromagnetic wave therapy ... which is what voodoo is based on.
+Another complex contradiction to be considered: all could be viewed as the agglomeration of force-fields, electromagnetic waves, gravitational waves, frequencies, which, when they reach some critical density, change into some other \dq{quality.} (Or geometries, numbers, values, dimensions, symbols, images, gods, spirits, phantoms, cash, talk, drawings, dances\ld) One can look at humans as\slash of\slash in these fields in many ways, from many angles, through a variety of disciplinary lenses. Humans, for instance, could be considered as manifestations of the cosmological\slash astrophysical (and astrological) whole \ld\ brothers, sisters, spawn of the stars; as biological manifestations concreting out of Fourier processes, complex waves inventing complexes of waves in order to explain the self. If so, then medicine based on physics, chemistry, molecular biology should, in time, be replaced by electromagnetic wave therapy \ld\ which is what voodoo is based on.
 
-When the universe is waved, or when a universal language is discovered or invented, the boundaries between objects and objects, and between objects and languages blur. As boundaries were blurred, the disciplineseperated currents of the past dissolved. It became desireable to create the logical links that united the now-unbounded contents of once artificially seperated areas of thought. Indeed, the newest developments in computer thought demand this unity... but in a special way. Language domains can, in principle, be interpolated into any form of discourse, past and present, spatially seperated, including literary and psychological discourse (we consider those psychologies that don't take account of the nervous system to be literary; word games). Now a re-reading and re-critique of all \enquote{great traditions} becomes possible. But, as in all translation, much has to be left out, cast aside as irrelevant or dangeous dross, basically untranslatable (or not desireable to translate). New problems of classification are raised, for one cannot say \enquote{OM} and have it stand for the \emph{All}.
+When the universe is waved, or when a universal language is discovered or invented, the boundaries between objects and objects, and between objects and languages blur. As boundaries were blurred, the discipline-separated currents of the past dissolved. It became desirable to create the logical links that united the now-unbounded contents of once artificially separated areas of thought. Indeed, the newest developments in computer thought demand this unity\ld\ but in a special way. Language domains can, in principle, be interpolated into any form of discourse, past and present, spatially separated, including literary and psychological discourse (we consider those psychologies that don't take account of the nervous system to be literary; word games). Now a re-reading and re-critique of all \dq{great traditions} becomes possible. But, as in all translation, much has to be left out, cast aside as irrelevant or dangerous dross, basically untranslatable (or not desirable to translate). New problems of classification are raised, for one cannot say \dq{OM} and have it stand for the \e{All}.
 
-The long and corrective project that some humans are in the process of inventing and reinventing leads to reunification and reconcentration. In the legend, humans are created to replace fallen angels, but they must go through aeons of ‘‘development."' Through a long-range process, this concept mutates into \enquote{evolution.} All of history is a trip toward ascendance and transfiguration, or transsubstantiation: in modern times this reads as a recombinant genetics project for the manufacture of immortal angels. (And in the Golem myth, information placed into dust brings the dust to life.)
+The long and corrective project that some humans are in the process of inventing and reinventing leads to reunification and reconcentration. In the legend, humans are created to replace fallen angels, but they must go through aeons of \dq{development.} Through a long-range process, this concept mutates into \dq{evolution.} All of history is a trip toward ascendance and transfiguration, or transubstantiation: in modern times this reads as a recombinant genetics project for the manufacture of immortal angels. (And in the Golem myth, information placed into dust brings the dust to life.)
 
-How is this fragmentation of languages, of civilization, of energy to be cured? Perhaps by creating the appropriate thesauri, slide rules, categories, classes, conversion matrices for comparative mapping of realm onto realm. A mental act should make it possible to describe n-dimensional hyperspaces in which the languages of, say, poetry, finance, or relativity theory are seen to be one. Recreate a post-ur-language at one of the timeends of the universe? New vision? Not really. Kaballa anticipates these alternate spaces as language-manipulation. Primitive religions describe journeys in folded and short-circuited spaces which can be matched up to the hoard-spaces and passages through which bankers hurl their money around.
+How is this fragmentation of languages, of civilization, of energy to be cured? Perhaps by creating the appropriate thesauri, slide rules, categories, classes, conversion matrices for comparative mapping of realm onto realm. A mental act should make it possible to describe n-dimensional hyperspaces in which the languages of, say, poetry, finance, or relativity theory are seen to be one. Recreate a post-ur-language at one of the time-ends of the universe? New vision? Not really. Kabbalah anticipates these alternate spaces as language-manipulation. Primitive religions describe journeys in folded and short-circuited spaces which can be matched up to the hoard-spaces and passages through which bankers hurl their money around.
 
-If fragmentation is the way to death, then the parts of the person can still be united. How? Resurrection: by the parts being conjoined (keeping track of them, memorializing the whole and its subsequent parts in a file), \emph{communicating} in a magical medium... If not a mystical medium, then possibly an \emph{externalized} nervous system, a great, artificial brain. Who does the connection? In the old days, the witch, the shaman, the priest, The Church, the observor, the remembrancer, the tale-teller. The information establishment plays the modern role. Modern medical information and telecommunication systems may memorialize representations of whole, or parts of people in different and seperate data repositories even in different and distant countries (since the speed of communication is distance-insensitive, and time-insensitive, relatively speaking), ready to join the parts together in the twinkling of an eye. By maintaining communications and preserving a joining-together algorithm, one can create a modern version of the Resurrection through wire or wave transmission, reuniting the parts. The presence maintained after death. Ghosts, of a sort.
+If fragmentation is the way to death, then the parts of the person can still be united. How? Resurrection: by the parts being conjoined (keeping track of them, memorializing the whole and its subsequent parts in a file), \e{communicating} in a magical medium\ld\ If not a mystical medium, then possibly an \e{externalized} nervous system, a great, artificial brain. Who does the connection? In the old days, the witch, the shaman, the priest, The Church, the observer, the remembrancer, the tale-teller. The information establishment plays the modern role. Modern medical information and telecommunication systems may memorialize representations of whole, or parts of people in different and separate data repositories even in different and distant countries (since the speed of communication is distance-insensitive, and time-insensitive, relatively speaking), ready to join the parts together in the twinkling of an eye. By maintaining communications and preserving a joining-together algorithm, one can create a modern version of the Resurrection through wire or wave transmission, reuniting the parts. The presence maintained after death. Ghosts, of a sort.
 
-Let's consider a practical problem: the operation of the multi-purpose computer in the defense sectors: the Situation-Room. There are various defense and intelligence situation-rooms, and presumably the ultimate and best one in the White House. The purpose of the situation room is to recieve data from all over the world, so that a response to a political or military problem is instantaneously possible. It is a vast intelligence input/output, monitoring device,  % TODO fix
+Let's consider a practical problem: the operation of the multi-purpose computer in the defense sectors: the Situation-Room. There are various defense and intelligence situation-rooms, and presumably the ultimate and best one in the White House. The purpose of the situation room is to receive data from all over the world, so that a response to a political or military problem is instantaneously possible. It is a vast intelligence input\slash output, monitoring device,  % TODO fix
 presumably in a form understandable to nonexperts. (After all, for the crisis-data to arrive in machine language, or any other primal computer languages, would be meaningless.) Information arrives from all over the world. Given a change of any variable in the political, military, economic orders, creates changes in the computer: it's a sort of electronic spread-sheet.
 
-In order for this to work a number of conditions must be met. Various sensing systems must be recieving and sending data at all times: a world network of National Security Agency stations monitoring all electronic traffic, decoding and interpreting it, the Central Intelligence Agency recieving a stream of reports, Internal Revenue System, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Political analysis, economic reportage, inputs from the civilian sector \ldots and so forth.
+In order for this to work a number of conditions must be met. Various sensing systems must be receiving and sending data at all times: a world network of National Security Agency stations monitoring all electronic traffic, decoding and interpreting it, the Central Intelligence Agency receiving a stream of reports, Internal Revenue System, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Political analysis, economic reportage, inputs from the civilian sector\ld\ and so forth.
 
-This incredible influx of data must not only be translated, compressed and graded in terms of importance, and matched up to already existant data (to determine significant change), but must be arranged according to some overriding set of scenarios for ready response\ldots scenarios into which go various modes of analysis which had, at some point or other, to be automated, must match up, in computer languages, to those original systems which generated the scenarios in the first place. That is to say, military, economic, agricultural, trade, political, sociological, psychological, anthropological, even medical data, country studies, all, at one time or another, have to be translated into machine-readable forms. And, as much as possible, this influx must be in real time. Of course when one considers the variables, the incredible proliferation of disciplines and their attendant languages which developed before the computer arrived, we see that what constitutes actionable facts are hard to deal with and are imperfectly specifiable, translatable or programmable without enormous distortions.
+This incredible influx of data must not only be translated, compressed and graded in terms of importance, and matched up to already existent data (to determine significant change), but must be arranged according to some overriding set of scenarios for ready response\ld\ scenarios into which go various modes of analysis which had, at some point or other, to be automated, must match up, in computer languages, to those original systems which generated the scenarios in the first place. That is to say, military, economic, agricultural, trade, political, sociological, psychological, anthropological, even medical data, country studies, all, at one time or another, have to be translated into machine-readable forms. And, as much as possible, this influx must be in real time. Of course when one considers the variables, the incredible proliferation of disciplines and their attendant languages which developed before the computer arrived, we see that what constitutes actionable facts are hard to deal with and are imperfectly specifiable, translatable or programmable without enormous distortions.
 
-But another consideration is more practical and that has to do with the question of whether or not individuals, classes, social sets share, or don't share their data. While on the one hand there is a striving for grand unification, at the same time centrifugal forces --- competition, protective secrecy, a proliferation of sub-disciplines --- work in the opposite direction. After all, to take one example, given an age of high taxation, many groupings and individuals have a vested interest in concealing their data.
+But another consideration is more practical and that has to do with the question of whether or not individuals, classes, social sets share, or don't share their data. While on the one hand there is a striving for grand unification, at the same time centrifugal forces---competition, protective secrecy, a proliferation of sub-disciplines---work in the opposite direction. After all, to take one example, given an age of high taxation, many groupings and individuals have a vested interest in concealing their data.
 
-But, in practical terms, when projected production of oil and its consumption do not conform to electronic wishes and statistical projections of energy companies, then the instrumental Archimedean levers to correct this deplorable situation becomes the Marines, the CIA, the torturers, moving in to fit a preconcieved notion of immediate long-term gain and growth.
+But, in practical terms, when projected production of oil and its consumption do not conform to electronic wishes and statistical projections of energy companies, then the instrumental Archimedean levers to correct this deplorable situation becomes the Marines, the CIA, the torturers, moving in to fit a preconceived notion of immediate long-term gain and growth.
 
-Of course, beneath all of this there are larger agendas, whole world-views which are, by nature, metaphysical. Views of human nature (psychological theories), views of nature itself, progressive --- military-assisted --- Hegelian-Calvinistic destiny.
+Of course, beneath all of this there are larger agendas, whole world-views which are, by nature, metaphysical. Views of human nature (psychological theories), views of nature itself, progressive---military-assisted---Hegelian-Calvinistic destiny.
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-The limitations of the new information languages, the limitations of the machines, storages, operating systems, circuitry, machine-compatible logic, programs diminish what was once far richer. The old words were broader; they packed complexes of implication within them; their ambiguities allowed for richness and latitude, for rethinking, redefinition from time to time. They contain treasuries of implication within them; the \enquote{amounts} of information they contain are staggering. Consider Eliot's \booktitle{The Wasteland}:
+The limitations of the new information languages, the limitations of the machines, storages, operating systems, circuitry, machine-compatible logic, programs diminish what was once far richer. The old words were broader; they packed complexes of implication within them; their ambiguities allowed for richness and latitude, for rethinking, redefinition from time to time. They contain treasuries of implication within them; the \dq{amounts} of information they contain are staggering. Consider Eliot's \booktitle{The Wasteland}:
 
-How do you represent, in terms of specification, and thus bits of information (if that is even the way to put it) the endless galaxy of implications contained in Eliot's poem? In the first place the poem is a rhythmic index, a memory-system. The allusive and apparently self-contained word or phrase opens up into other poems, and histories. That is to say they are references to memory storages. The first line reads \textquote{April is the cruelest month...} \emph{All} Aprils included; the April of Chaucer, the April/Easter of the crucifixion, \booktitle{The Divine Comedy}, all the Aprils contained in \booktitle{The Golden Bough}, and all the rites of spring, sacrifices and renewals to insure fertility, of dying and being planted in the earth to spring up in a new form. Are we to mix our terms here? For example, political, social, economic conditions, to say nothing of genetic evolutionary and \enquote{adaptive strategies} and continuities to be considered as the stuff of literary concerns\ldots\ at least not \emph{directly}.\footnote{Although the naturalists had tried to meld science into literature.} Nor had passion, hatred, character, conflict, ceremony been allowed to be part of science. But once we consider the universe to be language, information, then fiction and magic permeates it all. When experience and reality are processed by computer, the usual domains and disciplines are mixable. Once discrete realms shatter again, their languages melt, float, interface. Multi-lateral Pythagoreanism. But then, hadn't this modern fusion of realms been anticipated by dreams and surrealism, but in a non-quantified, anti-particleized way?
+How do you represent, in terms of specification, and thus bits of information (if that is even the way to put it) the endless galaxy of implications contained in Eliot's poem? In the first place the poem is a rhythmic index, a memory-system. The allusive and apparently self-contained word or phrase opens up into other poems, and histories. That is to say they are references to memory storages. The first line reads \e{\dq{April is the cruelest month\ld}} \e{All} Aprils included; the April of Chaucer, the April\slash Easter of the crucifixion, \booktitle{The Divine Comedy}, all the Aprils contained in \booktitle{The Golden Bough}, and all the rites of spring, sacrifices and renewals to insure fertility, of dying and being planted in the earth to spring up in a new form. Are we to mix our terms here? For example, political, social, economic conditions, to say nothing of genetic evolutionary and \dq{adaptive strategies} and continuities to be considered as the stuff of literary concerns\ld\ at least not \e{directly}. (Although the naturalists had tried to meld science into literature.) Nor had passion, hatred, character, conflict, ceremony been allowed to be part of science. But once we consider the universe to be language, information, then fiction and magic permeates it all. When experience and reality are processed by computer, the usual domains and disciplines are mixable. Once discrete realms shatter again, their languages melt, float, interface. Multi-lateral Pythagoreanism. But then, hadn't this modern fusion of realms been anticipated by dreams and surrealism, but in a non-quantified, anti-particleized way?
 
-Agriculture itself as a metaphor for death, all resurrection, and conversely. In ancient thought, of course, the spoken and acted-out rite is a ceremony pre-operational to planting: it is a planning and management system. It \emph{precedes} the actuality of material life, as the modern rite of manipulating the memory of past and future wheat crops inherant in money \emph{precedes} all spring plantings and growths.
+Agriculture itself as a metaphor for death, all resurrection, and conversely. In ancient thought, of course, the spoken and acted-out rite is a ceremony pre-operational to planting: it is a planning and management system. It \e{precedes} the actuality of material life, as the modern rite of manipulating the memory of past and future wheat crops inherent in money \e{precedes} all spring plantings and growths.
 
-There is the question of metaphor and simile, which the computer \emph{cannot} handle unless given specific instructions, and then within a limited set of circumstances (which may grow, but becomes unwieldy). Metaphor is a form of \emph{fused association}, sometimes of completely \emph{unrelated} terms (except in the mind ofa poet, novelist, or advertising copywriter), to create a third term, but in a pecu- liar way. In the world of program-driven computers, one list of items may be matched to another list. What is compared are two or more strings of \emph{stored-up impulses} (given in one or another set of computer languages). Beneath, on the level of circuitry and machine-language, something different happens than thought. \emph{Items are not being compared.}
+There is the question of metaphor and simile, which the computer \e{cannot} handle unless given specific instructions, and then within a limited set of circumstances (which may grow, but becomes unwieldy). Metaphor is a form of \e{fused association}, sometimes of completely \e{unrelated} terms (except in the mind of a poet, novelist, or advertising copywriter), to create a third term, but in a peculiar way. In the world of program-driven computers, one list of items may be matched to another list. What is compared are two or more strings of \e{stored-up impulses} (given in one or another set of computer languages). Beneath, on the level of circuitry and machine-language, something different happens than thought. \e{Items are not being compared.}
 
-All items in natural language are not bounded by the compartmentalization required by a computer: they have no true boundaries. Truly different sets of items \emph{cannot} be compared unless a tedious and endless program is written on the order of "if [\![ this \ldots\ ]\!] then [\![ that \ldots\ ]\!]" An algorithm describing the way metaphors are generated can be easily written; it cannot be implemented or generated by a computer language. The instructions could be written such that \enquote{whenever \enquote{April,} then \enquote{cruel}}, but only applies to these terms whenever \enquote{April} and \enquote{cruel} appear. But supposing that another poet appears, working out of another framework, to speak of April in conjunction with the autumns of the southern hemisphere?
+All items in natural language are not bounded by the compartmentalization required by a computer: they have no true boundaries. Truly different sets of items \e{cannot} be compared unless a tedious and endless program is written on the order of \dq{{\tt if [ this ] ... then [ that ] ... }} An algorithm describing the way metaphors are generated can be easily written; it cannot be implemented or generated by a computer language. The instructions could be written such that \dq{whenever \sq{April,} then \sq{cruel}}, but only applies to these terms whenever \dq{April} and \dq{cruel} appear. But supposing that another poet appears, working out of another framework, to speak of April in conjunction with the autumns of the southern hemisphere?
 
-In order to unlock the poem's meaning, one already has to have access to a vast knowledge of literary, religious, anthropological, political, historic, mythological and psychological compilations (and those edited) in order to summon up the full text of references. The way the fragments are allusively juxtaposed may be analogized to the way information is stored, organized and sequenced on a disc ... in non-sequential fragments with memory addresses. Well and good.
+In order to unlock the poem's meaning, one already has to have access to a vast knowledge of literary, religious, anthropological, political, historic, mythological and psychological compilations (and those edited) in order to summon up the full text of references. The way the fragments are allusively juxtaposed may be analogized to the way information is stored, organized and sequenced on a disc\ld\ in non-sequential fragments with memory addresses. Well and good.
 
-It may be said that the retrieval process of the brain-body is somewhat like the retrieval process in a computer, but there are significant differences. (That is if anyone knows what goes on in the brain). The computer was orginally likened to the brain. The terms were reversed and the brain was likened to the computer, leading to ridiculous assesments—tried out experimentally—that the brain \enquote{processed} information in an on and off way. Later this was modifed and it was said that the brain \enquote{parallel-processed.} The mental processes are associational and quasi-random, and frequently get confused, yielding felicitous mixes. The computer processes are much more rigid and limited. It is when, in the poem, the fragments are fused that the difference becomes more apparent. The computer cannot fuse associations into a seamless whole.
+It may be said that the retrieval process of the brain-body is somewhat like the retrieval process in a computer, but there are significant differences. (That is if anyone knows what goes on in the brain). The computer was originally likened to the brain. The terms were reversed and the brain was likened to the computer, leading to ridiculous assessments---tried out experimentally---that the brain \dq{processed} information in an on and off way. Later this was modified and it was said that the brain \dq{parallel-processed.} The mental processes are associational and quasi-random, and frequently get confused, yielding felicitous mixes. The computer processes are much more rigid and limited. It is when, in the poem, the fragments are fused that the difference becomes more apparent. The computer cannot fuse associations into a seamless whole.
 
-Fiction, drama, poetry, non-quantifiable psychology and other traditional modes of discourse are partial but stand for wholes; they have long incorporated complex modes of organization of people, events, matter into dramatic sequences ... novels, plays, epics, poems, psychological theories ... Creating indices, hierarchies, queues, maps, models, simulations, translations, sets, classes are some of the problems raised by information handling. Each reorganization raises these problems again and again in new ways.
+Fiction, drama, poetry, non-quantifiable psychology and other traditional modes of discourse are partial but stand for wholes; they have long incorporated complex modes of organization of people, events, matter into dramatic sequences\ld\ novels, plays, epics, poems, psychological theories\ld\ Creating indices, hierarchies, queues, maps, models, simulations, translations, sets, classes are some of the problems raised by information handling. Each reorganization raises these problems again and again in new ways.
 
-All literary works contain, among other things, indices and every such work solves the problem of hierarchy, or of queueing without specifically delineating these modes of sorting as problems. Literaure does not accept polarities as absolute oppositions. Dialectics is the emanation of crippled and self-constrained minds ... the realm, really, of accountants. Hierarchy? It's all in Dante. Sets? Borges deals with them wittily. Indexes? See Eliot. In literature (and literary psychology ... such as Freud's or Jung's) all these modes are dynamic, allusive, \emph{multireferential.} As for set-theory, this is, of course, the mathematician's and logician's whimsey. As in life, literature shatters sets.
+All literary works contain, among other things, indices and every such work solves the problem of hierarchy, or of queueing without specifically delineating these modes of sorting as problems. Literature does not accept polarities as absolute oppositions. Dialectics is the emanation of crippled and self-constrained minds\ld\ the realm, really, of accountants. Hierarchy? It's all in Dante. Sets? Borges deals with them wittily. Indexes? See Eliot. In literature (and literary psychology\ld\ such as Freud's or Jung's) all these modes are dynamic, allusive, \e{multireferential.} As for set-theory, this is, of course, the mathematician's and logician's whimsey. As in life, literature shatters sets.
 
-In real life, all sets are fuzzy. For example; in a complex, transnational, transtemporal holding company which owns other companies and parts of companies and constantly seeks to conceal itself behind a thousand portals represented by the shell-names of companies distributed in a lot of countries, which is the set of all sets? The subsidiary or subset may contain (by control) the set of all sets. In fact, taken all in all, the contiguity of economic (and political) activity eventually links and sends the representations of each part of itself at incredible speeds to every other economic and political body \emph{in the world} these days, especially in the age of advanced telematics. In the modern world, America, France, the USSR (since transnationals overlap their boundaries) ... are indeed fuzzy sets, better expressed in literary language... indeed, the language of \booktitle{Finnegan's Wake}. (And one may say that a set, called for convenience Mafia, is conjoined and interpenetrates those sets called corporations and those sets called governments through other interpretive realms called politics, by using a set-violating, economic activity called bribing... It is, to be sure, primarily and economic organization, but on the other hand, requires primitive rituals as part of its sustaining power.)
+In real life, all sets are fuzzy. For example; in a complex, transnational, transtemporal holding company which owns other companies and parts of companies and constantly seeks to conceal itself behind a thousand portals represented by the shell-names of companies distributed in a lot of countries, which is the set of all sets? The subsidiary or subset may contain (by control) the set of all sets. In fact, taken all in all, the contiguity of economic (and political) activity eventually links and sends the representations of each part of itself at incredible speeds to every other economic and political body \e{in the world} these days, especially in the age of advanced telematics. In the modern world, America, France, the USSR (since transnationals overlap their boundaries) \ld\ are indeed fuzzy sets, better expressed in literary language\ld\ indeed, the language of \booktitle{Finnegan's Wake}. (And one may say that a set, called for convenience Mafia, is conjoined and interpenetrates those sets called corporations and those sets called governments through other interpretive realms called politics, by using a set-violating, economic activity called bribing\ld\ It is, to be sure, primarily and economic organization, but on the other hand, requires primitive rituals as part of its sustaining power.)
 
 The way of the fiction writer and mythmaker is a function of long stores of knowledge, arrayed in certain ways, drawing from a taken-for-granted memory bank. The world of information processing is a world of partial faiths and fictions. Tests for truth that match reality are meaningless in this world: inner consistency is what counts.
 
-In literature (its application to the new information world will soon emerge) one converts the experiences of the self and others into words. (What sensors does one use to acquire the experience of others? Through what set of filters --- ideas, technology, legends, myths, psychological and social theories, artificial memory/intelligence --- does one sift one's own personal experience?) The writer uses imagery, similes, symbols, signs, translations, conversions, comparisons, metaphors, tropes, compact representation, character, emotion, conflict, drama in certain limited situations. All dictated by a body of traditions. Experience, real people, furniture, space, action, geometry, geology, geography are converted into evocative words and are arranged into some new structure, perhaps more neatly --- or more amusingly, or startlingly --- than in life. Fiction, poetry, drama are programs designed to transmit energy which \emph{amplifies} as it goes through its \enquote{circuits.} There is selection. One cannot write about everything.
+In literature (its application to the new information world will soon emerge) one converts the experiences of the self and others into words. (What sensors does one use to acquire the experience of others? Through what set of filters---ideas, technology, legends, myths, psychological and social theories, artificial memory\slash intelligence---does one sift one's own personal experience?) The writer uses imagery, similes, symbols, signs, translations, conversions, comparisons, metaphors, tropes, compact representation, character, emotion, conflict, drama in certain limited situations. All dictated by a body of traditions. Experience, real people, furniture, space, action, geometry, geology, geography are converted into evocative words and are arranged into some new structure, perhaps more neatly---or more amusingly, or startlingly---than in life. Fiction, poetry, drama are programs designed to transmit energy which \e{amplifies} as it goes through its \dq{circuits.} There is selection. One cannot write about everything.
 
-The compilers and refiners, the preservers and organizers, the abridgers who assembled and trimmed the treasure, the great canon of literature (surely there was always editing and censorship involved), assert that their Great creations represent whole populations ... Man and Woman writ large. But in fact these are \emph{sampling} techniques, which can provisionally be said to have been invented by the Greek Tragedians. But what is left out? Among other things, the living stuff of humans, which involves neuronic, hormonal, enzymatic, chemical, metabolic, genetic, electromagnetic activity had not been fit for literary language. Yet one could come up with a prototypical set of biological reactions accompanying (indeed, initiating and sustaining) mythological, literary and religious prototypes and archetypes.
+The compilers and refiners, the preservers and organizers, the abridgers who assembled and trimmed the treasure, the great canon of literature (surely there was always editing and censorship involved), assert that their Great creations represent whole populations\ld\ Man and Woman writ large. But in fact these are \e{sampling} techniques, which can provisionally be said to have been invented by the Greek Tragedians. But what is left out? Among other things, the living stuff of humans, which involves neuronic, hormonal, enzymatic, chemical, metabolic, genetic, electromagnetic activity had not been fit for literary language. Yet one could come up with a prototypical set of biological reactions accompanying (indeed, initiating and sustaining) mythological, literary and religious prototypes and archetypes.
 
 When Proust bites into the tea-soaked Madeleine, the taste is a stimulus to releasing memory which then pours out and is recorded as a printout. We have a report of Proust's brain operating, but in another language. We could also write a biochemical essay which replicates the event. We could also say that Proust wrote a treatise on information storage and retrieval, on the long and short-term memory, in which the tea-soaked Madeleine is the key word, and the instruction, that begins the memory dump.
 
-When a marketing study is prepared, psychology and sociology is used to create the stimuli, the association of ideas that will generate the \emph{feeling} which reaches the memory to release biochemicals, electrical charges, symbols. All emotions, behaviors, dramas and tastes are tallied, sampled and compared with standardized and representative beings: prototypes, concurrent archetypes: the hypostatic buyer. Frequently life-signs are monitored by biological telemetering equipment. But, at the same time, the marketers must try to turn diverse populations into Standard Consumers; infecting the archetypal consumer's memory with prototypical hunger. Persuasion.
+When a marketing study is prepared, psychology and sociology is used to create the stimuli, the association of ideas that will generate the \e{feeling} which reaches the memory to release biochemicals, electrical charges, symbols. All emotions, behaviors, dramas and tastes are tallied, sampled and compared with standardized and representative beings: prototypes, concurrent archetypes: the hypostatic buyer. Frequently life-signs are monitored by biological telemetry equipment. But, at the same time, the marketers must try to turn diverse populations into Standard Consumers; infecting the archetypal consumer's memory with prototypical hunger. Persuasion.
 
-\emph{True} archetypes, \emph{original} archetypes, prototypical figures, their deeds and emotions are communicated down through the ages. From time to time their attributes are altered to adjust to newer ages. These are used as templates to force people into those imageforms. Consider that message called \emph{Oedipus} and how it has been used again and again. But were such recorded, aboriginal events prototypical? Who, what set of people made them that way and why? If Jung talks about the collective unconcious, one must not only ask, \enquote{who collected it?}, but who keeps reminding us? And what are we not reminded of? Who speaks of the archetypal revolutionary, the primal guerrilla?
+\e{True} archetypes, \e{original} archetypes, prototypical figures, their deeds and emotions are communicated down through the ages. From time to time their attributes are altered to adjust to newer ages. These are used as templates to force people into those image-forms. Consider that message called \e{Oedipus} and how it has been used again and again. But were such recorded, aboriginal events prototypical? Who, what set of people made them that way and why? If Jung talks about the collective unconscious, one must not only ask, \dq{who collected it?}, but who keeps reminding us? And what are we not reminded of? Who speaks of the archetypal revolutionary, the primal guerrilla?
 
-Some set of \enquote{orginal,} transcribed events and characters are made into standards, broadcast and rebroadcast. Those who follow are made to resonate to the original signal. People through the ages are made into transcievers. The emotion of a perhaps once-lived life in turn gains power to motivate people across time and space. In fact, the people, the transcievers, the relays, are frequently more emotionally moved by these compulsive fictions than by their own life or the people they live among. They are taught to screen their own experience through these long-transmitted stereotypes, reassessing their own lives, comparing, matching, referencing, denying what they are in fact living out, viewing what is around them through mediational scrims.
+Some set of \dq{original,} transcribed events and characters are made into standards, broadcast and rebroadcast. Those who follow are made to resonate to the original signal. People through the ages are made into transceivers. The emotion of a perhaps once-lived life in turn gains power to motivate people across time and space. In fact, the people, the transceivers, the relays, are frequently more emotionally moved by these compulsive fictions than by their own life or the people they live among. They are taught to screen their own experience through these long-transmitted stereotypes, reassessing their own lives, comparing, matching, referencing, denying what they are in fact living out, viewing what is around them through mediational scrims.
 
-Some humans, fearing death, watch the butterfly emerge from its chrysalis, or they see the seed planted, going into the winterdead ground, and grow up as grain, and dream of the time when they can metamorphose, transubstantiate into angels and gods. The whole algorithm of agriculture is described in Christian thought, represented by a human\slash divine figure in its metamorphoses into divinity. So they invent varieties of immortality. The way to immortality lies through death; it begins with a dissolution, a liquidation and ends with a reconstruction, recombination, resurrection.
+Some humans, fearing death, watch the butterfly emerge from its chrysalis, or they see the seed planted, going into the winter-dead ground, and grow up as grain, and dream of the time when they can metamorphose, transubstantiate into angels and gods. The whole algorithm of agriculture is described in Christian thought, represented by a human\slash divine figure in its metamorphoses into divinity. So they invent varieties of immortality. The way to immortality lies through death; it begins with a dissolution, a liquidation and ends with a reconstruction, recombination, resurrection.
 
-But the progrssive series of deaths and resurrections lead somewhere. (Not \enquote{true} death, for energy and matter are conserved.) If we view the world, the universe in a quantum-operational sense, in which the observor intervenes in the observed, then, as we have said, \enquote{Mind} permeates the universe and must constantly be sustained and reproduced or the universe will cease to exist. Thus, \emph{all} the instruments of perception, of past and present, place mind in the univese and the universe in\slash as\slash of mind. True, the referential frameworks change and the rules change. Thus dreams permeate through skins, flow through all boundaries and are shuttled back and forth in history; empty space becomes a plenum which manifests itself into sometimes virtual entities, fields of particles and waves, sometimes real and permanent entities which are viewed with astonishment. Life is an illusion; the flow, the dance, the perpetuation and evolution of language is all, and bodies lyse into language, symbols, matter, space, velocity, energy, bodies, money... (Perhaps humans resist this liquidity. When humans are converted into economic symbols, one form of capital, the being is liquified, transsubstantiated into capital. What is capital but a set of numbers which will metamorphose again into factories or other humans?) The first law of thermodynamics tells us that matter and energy are conserved. Then the instruments that view these events are also conserved. That is to say mind is eternal. (Really?) And perhaps, so is time. And clearly we can see the whole program of the birth, life and death of the universe speeded up for us in a reconstructive program. But more, we can now populate our computer with a plethora of virtual, interconnecting and concurrent spaces and minds, as the Kaballists had proposed so long ago. Perhaps we will see them, since these fictions will have themselves become instruments of perception.
+But the progressive series of deaths and resurrections lead somewhere. (Not \dq{true} death, for energy and matter are conserved.) If we view the world, the universe in a quantum-operational sense, in which the observer intervenes in the observed, then, as we have said, \dq{Mind} permeates the universe and must constantly be sustained and reproduced or the universe will cease to exist. Thus, \e{all} the instruments of perception, of past and present, place mind in the universe and the universe in\slash as\slash of mind. True, the referential frameworks change and the rules change. Thus dreams permeate through skins, flow through all boundaries and are shuttled back and forth in history; empty space becomes a plenum which manifests itself into sometimes virtual entities, fields of particles and waves, sometimes real and permanent entities which are viewed with astonishment. Life is an illusion; the flow, the dance, the perpetuation and evolution of language is all, and bodies lyse into language, symbols, matter, space, velocity, energy, bodies, money\ld\ (Perhaps humans resist this liquidity. When humans are converted into economic symbols, one form of capital, the being is liquefied, transubstantiated into capital. What is capital but a set of numbers which will metamorphose again into factories or other humans?) The first law of thermodynamics tells us that matter and energy are conserved. Then the instruments that view these events are also conserved. That is to say mind is eternal. (Really?) And perhaps, so is time. And clearly we can see the whole program of the birth, life and death of the universe speeded up for us in a reconstructive program. But more, we can now populate our computer with a plethora of virtual, interconnecting and concurrent spaces and minds, as the Kabbalists had proposed so long ago. Perhaps we will see them, since these fictions will have themselves become instruments of perception.
 
-In the pre-Judeo\slash Christian past, the metamorphoses were circular or cyclical, happening without any purposive, long-range strategy. The Jews and Christians introduced two complementary --- yet opposing --- long-range strategies; non-repeating, goal-oriented history, which led to collective immortality, out of which sprung metaphysical evolution. Events in time were arranged in an ascending sequence leading to collective death, transfiguration, resurrection and escape into paradise ... a reuniting with that from which they had originally been seperated from.
+In the pre-Judeo\slash Christian past, the metamorphoses were circular or cyclical, happening without any purposive, long-range strategy. The Jews and Christians introduced two complementary---yet opposing---long-range strategies; non-repeating, goal-oriented history, which led to collective immortality, out of which sprung metaphysical evolution. Events in time were arranged in an ascending sequence leading to collective death, transfiguration, resurrection and escape into paradise\ld\ a reuniting with that from which they had originally been separated from.
 
-With the advent of the industrial-scientific-technological-capital revolutions, the transformation programs \emph{appeared} to be secular. Events were arranged into a \emph{non-}Judeo\slash Christian, long range strategy of transcendance. \emph{Qualitative}, metaphysical transubstantiation was replaced by an accretive, recombinatorial, technology-assisted march toward transubstantiation (since everything can be prised apart into units, numbered and rearranged). This invention was called progress, though still incorporating the old notions of immortality. At certain stages, the accumulation would reach a critical mass and a quantum leap into a new period would take place. Permanent revolution. This was a reaction to that perpetuated, obsessive dream of a faded paradise, the Roman Empire, and the descent into Feudal chaos. How many expulsions from timeless and non-progressive paradisos haunt our \emph{collected memory}? This kind of thinking led to concepis of rational forecasting, retrocasting, planning, management.
+With the advent of the industrial-scientific-technological-capital revolutions, the transformation programs \e{appeared} to be secular. Events were arranged into a \e{non-}Judeo\slash Christian, long range strategy of transcendence. \e{Qualitative}, metaphysical transubstantiation was replaced by an accretive, recombinatorial, technology-assisted march toward transubstantiation (since everything can be prised apart into units, numbered and rearranged). This invention was called progress, though still incorporating the old notions of immortality. At certain stages, the accumulation would reach a critical mass and a quantum leap into a new period would take place. Permanent revolution. This was a reaction to that perpetuated, obsessive dream of a faded paradise, the Roman Empire, and the descent into Feudal chaos. How many expulsions from timeless and non-progressive paradisos haunt our \e{collected memory}? This kind of thinking led to concepts of rational forecasting, retrocasting, planning, management.
 
-But since events had to be scheduled in a practical, materialistic, exponentially rising line, in order to gain escape-velocity, in order to escape entropic fate, it was clear that man's ascendant journey required a series of engineered metamorphoses. The mechanisms of natural evolution seemed to be gone. And anyway, Man wouldn't let any new form that emerged from him, challenge him. This meant that the journey toward immortality required tapping the earth's and the universe's energy. And if one were to harness the universe's energy, that would cost a lot, and anyway, most people, while fearing death, were not nescessarily interested in immortality: the enterprise had to be sold. Enter \booktitle{Faust}.
+But since events had to be scheduled in a practical, materialistic, exponentially rising line, in order to gain escape-velocity, in order to escape entropic fate, it was clear that man's ascendant journey required a series of engineered metamorphoses. The mechanisms of natural evolution seemed to be gone. And anyway, Man wouldn't let any new form that emerged from him, challenge him. This meant that the journey toward immortality required tapping the earth's and the universe's energy. And if one were to harness the universe's energy, that would cost a lot, and anyway, most people, while fearing death, were not necessarily interested in immortality: the enterprise had to be sold. Enter \booktitle{Faust}.
 
-\booktitle{Faust} stands for a key word, one of many in a directory of transcendance strategies. \booktitle{The Divine Comedy} is another. \booktitle{Faust} is dynamic and action-oriented: Dante is static. Dante (and The Church) encouraged saving of energy and cutting down of indulgence-expenditure --- called sin --- while Faust encouraged profligacy as a means toward progress.
+\booktitle{Faust} stands for a key word, one of many in a directory of transcendence strategies. \booktitle{The Divine Comedy} is another. \booktitle{Faust} is dynamic and action-oriented: Dante is static. Dante (and The Church) encouraged saving of energy and cutting down of indulgence-expenditure---called sin---while Faust encouraged profligacy as a means toward progress.
 
-One general form of the transcendance algorithm runs this way: Hero seeks, or is impelled to seek knowledge; hero has dream, or dies, or passes into another realm; the new, or next world is revealed; hero comes back, or leaves directions in the form of a book. Note the role of knowledge or information.
+One general form of the transcendence algorithm runs this way: Hero seeks, or is impelled to seek knowledge; hero has dream, or dies, or passes into another realm; the new, or next world is revealed; hero comes back, or leaves directions in the form of a book. Note the role of knowledge or information.
 
-\booktitle{Faust} is the great poetic myth representing the transition from the medieval to the modern age, from medievalism to capitalism, from agricultural\slash feudal society to industrial (and then to the information society), from one kind of magic to another. (And it is Eliot's lament that we had taken the wrong path.) \booktitle{Faust}'s ascent is built around one concrete and one mystic project. The concrete project involves a dam and land-reclaimation. \booktitle{Faust} is in every marketing strategy the computer and software manufacturers generate. The mystic project is the transubstantiation of, the rejection of the body and the earthly life, earthly events and time, history, and mundane procreation, utilizing a meta-sexual image. \booktitle{Faust} becomes, as it were, one of the programs of modern society. The dependance on mystic knowledge, information, is very strong.
+\booktitle{Faust} is the great poetic myth representing the transition from the medieval to the modern age, from medievalism to capitalism, from agricultural\slash feudal society to industrial (and then to the information society), from one kind of magic to another. (And it is Eliot's lament that we had taken the wrong path.) \booktitle{Faust}'s ascent is built around one concrete and one mystic project. The concrete project involves a dam and land-reclamation. \booktitle{Faust} is in every marketing strategy the computer and software manufacturers generate. The mystic project is the transubstantiation of, the rejection of the body and the earthly life, earthly events and time, history, and mundane procreation, utilizing a meta-sexual image. \booktitle{Faust} becomes, as it were, one of the programs of modern society. The dependence on mystic knowledge, information, is very strong.
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-Even the most primitive of tribal entities, those most materially deprived, seem to have extraordinarily complicated and sophisticated intellectual systems. And, along with generating wonderous classification systems, they stack up tales of underlying, fundamental orders, and the creation of these orders, into layered versions. In contrast, modern, western thought is relatively simple and simplifying. 
+Even the most primitive of tribal entities, those most materially deprived, seem to have extraordinarily complicated and sophisticated intellectual systems. And, along with generating wondrous classification systems, they stack up tales of underlying, fundamental orders, and the creation of these orders, into layered versions. In contrast, modern, western thought is relatively simple and simplifying. 
 
-\emph{Formally} speaking, all these \enquote{pre-modern} systems are very alike: in practice, quite different. The introduction of modern formal analysis may be a particularly western mode for making unlikes alike, a strategy for destroying singularity and quality, still lurking in ultra-modern, western civilization. We see the imposition of this western formalism on the underdeveloped world. On a formal level, these older systems seem to bear a curious resemblance to modern ones. Is this a function of modernist and leveling perception? And all, of course, address themselves to origins and endings.
+\e{Formally} speaking, all these \dq{pre-modern} systems are very alike: in practice, quite different. The introduction of modern formal analysis may be a particularly western mode for making unlikes alike, a strategy for destroying singularity and quality, still lurking in ultra-modern, western civilization. We see the imposition of this western formalism on the underdeveloped world. On a formal level, these older systems seem to bear a curious resemblance to modern ones. Is this a function of modernist and leveling perception? And all, of course, address themselves to origins and endings.
 
-A cosmic or godly event begins the series. New versions are invented. Beginnings and endings proliferate. Origins are projected and analogized to inconsistent historical and mythological structures, which are then rationalized and united. The Kaballists ask; what happened \emph{before} the Biblical version of creation? The Hindus retroactively add geological strata of explanation and, \emph{literally}, concretized them out of mountains of stone, chiseling the \emph{Kamasutra} of creations: a sexual version. The Mayans and Aztecs choked their cosmos with Gods of retroactive explanation. But, as far as the Judeo\slash Christians were concerned, nothing less than the hunt for \emph{The One} would do, worshipping at the shrine of The Great Unifier and Explicator. But, yet, in entropic time, the cathedrals of nuclear particle and information priesthoods abound with sacred Fundamental Particles and Forces (or operators). Looking backward, the god or culture hero, the calculator-supreme, the order-bringer who will, after a hunt for a mystic vision, will enter the spaces of inspiration and blinding insight: there he will view an inscape, not of earth. After which he will return to deliver the Message of the Oneness of all things.
+A cosmic or godly event begins the series. New versions are invented. Beginnings and endings proliferate. Origins are projected and analogized to inconsistent historical and mythological structures, which are then rationalized and united. The Kabbalists ask; what happened \e{before} the Biblical version of creation? The Hindus retroactively add geological strata of explanation and, \e{literally}, concretized them out of mountains of stone, chiseling the \e{Kamasutra} of creations: a sexual version. The Mayans and Aztecs choked their cosmos with Gods of retroactive explanation. But, as far as the Judeo\slash Christians were concerned, nothing less than the hunt for \e{The One} would do, worshipping at the shrine of The Great Unifier and Explicator. But, yet, in entropic time, the cathedrals of nuclear particle and information priesthoods abound with sacred Fundamental Particles and Forces (or operators). Looking backward, the god or culture hero, the calculator-supreme, the order-bringer who will, after a hunt for a mystic vision, will enter the spaces of inspiration and blinding insight: there he will view an inscape, not of earth. After which he will return to deliver the Message of the Oneness of all things.
 
-All information theorists erect their knowledge-processing gods: Prometheus, Lucifer, Thoth, Metatron, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Simon Magus, Giordano Bruno, Jesus with his tidings of great Joy. Now we can look at the latest culture hero in a new light: as \enquote{truth-bringer.} Under the hero's mythic appearance are subsumed physicists, astronomers, molecular biologists, financiers, geneticists, neurologists ... is the five-faced Cyberneticist: Alan Turing, John Von Neuman, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon and Noam Chomsky (it should be understood that these names are mere variables for which other names may be substituted).
+All information theorists erect their knowledge-processing gods: Prometheus, Lucifer, Thoth, Metatron, Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus, Simon Magus, Giordano Bruno, Jesus with his tidings of great Joy. Now we can look at the latest culture hero in a new light: as \dq{truth-bringer.} Under the hero's mythic appearance are subsumed physicists, astronomers, molecular biologists, financiers, geneticists, neurologists\ld\ is the five-faced Cyberneticist: Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon and Noam Chomsky (it should be understood that these names are mere variables for which other names may be substituted).
 
 The great cosmic battle that calls them into being are the first two world wars. The civil war in western civilization is matched up to that great pre-primal civil war in heaven, the aboriginal revolution. This great Initial\slash Final struggle provides the impetus to machine the universe and go into business. Before earth existed, God and Lucifer battled. Earth was created (a rearrangement of space, matter, energy and time) as a tool and a battlefield in the Grand Struggle. The Grand Alliance vs. the Comecon legions of Pandemonium. Before the earth and the galaxies were invented (or reinvented), the Communists sinned against The Light and had their Great Fall from Grace. Or conversely, the Capitalists sinned against the light of Primitive and Paradisical Socialism.
 
-The Delphi where their cybernetic or information thought was born are the Macy Foundation, the Rand, IBM, Bell Telephone, bank wire rooms, the coding, cryptography and signal intelligence systems of government, the military and the universities. Rather than being anything new, this mode of thinking was designed to reorganize and incorporate the long tradition of western rationalizing and simplifying: Greek and Judeo/Christian thought. This scattered and compartmentalized Delphi strove to organize all divisions under its aegis, devouring and engulfing all before it, metabolizing diversity into this new, computational-assisted, gray pap. This assumption, this reclassification of diversity into fundamental order and unity in the universe, all things in it and all interrelationships among them, may, in the long run, be an act of faith ... the propagation of a magic spell to colonize all minds.
+The Delphi where their cybernetic or information thought was born are the Macy Foundation, the Rand, IBM, Bell Telephone, bank wire rooms, the coding, cryptography and signal intelligence systems of government, the military and the universities. Rather than being anything new, this mode of thinking was designed to reorganize and incorporate the long tradition of western rationalizing and simplifying: Greek and Judeo\slash Christian thought. This scattered and compartmentalized Delphi strove to organize all divisions under its aegis, devouring and engulfing all before it, metabolizing diversity into this new, computational-assisted, gray pap. This assumption, this reclassification of diversity into fundamental order and unity in the universe, all things in it and all interrelationships among them, may, in the long run, be an act of faith\ld\ the propagation of a magic spell to colonize all minds.
 
-Magic depends on a community of belief. The more who believe, the stronger the dominating resonance of the vision, which is then broadcast out into space like an incantation. If, indeed, as the quantum theorists would have it, the observing mind and its prosthetics intrudes into the cosmos, then wouldn't a cacaphony of visions and systems lead to a plethora of spaces? To make sure that chaos is averted, peer review, and ceremonialized, hierarchical orders of permissible discourse allow only for glacial change. Experiments which might prove incontrovertable diversity, or lead to a final skepticism are not funded. Goodness: what if Ernst Mach, who disputed atomic theory, was right?
+Magic depends on a community of belief. The more who believe, the stronger the dominating resonance of the vision, which is then broadcast out into space like an incantation. If, indeed, as the quantum theorists would have it, the observing mind and its prosthetics intrudes into the cosmos, then wouldn't a cacophony of visions and systems lead to a plethora of spaces? To make sure that chaos is averted, peer review, and ceremonialized, hierarchical orders of permissible discourse allow only for glacial change. Experiments which might prove incontrovertible diversity, or lead to a final skepticism are not funded. Goodness: what if Ernst Mach, who disputed atomic theory, was right?
 
-In modern thought, each version of universal order, developed in history, subsumes and tries to erase past or contradictory versions, negotiating away genuine differences or, at best, converting them into polar opposites or contradictions. But to call something a contradiction is to subsume it. The early efforts of unification included the pantheonizing activities of the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Mohammedans, Hebrews, Buddhists ... who attempted to compress, resolve and rationalize the many gods (who had many attributes and stood for many things), spirits, realms and cultures. Early unified-field theorizing. (And at the same time, intractable organic trees were converted into rows of stone pillars with stone leaves on top to control the wild proliferation of nature and to house this riot of now-domesticated gods.) Not only did the arcane formations of the past lurk on, visible to the eye, palpable to the touch, but in dream-states (since brain activity generates a wild, a surreal associationism, generating metaphors and conceits); the ever-present archeology of past formations collected in social thought (the true artificial intelligence/memory) which was the matrix through which education is sifted. These re-emerge when unifying attempts run into trouble in their encounter with intractable reality.
+In modern thought, each version of universal order, developed in history, subsumes and tries to erase past or contradictory versions, negotiating away genuine differences or, at best, converting them into polar opposites or contradictions. But to call something a contradiction is to subsume it. The early efforts of unification included the pantheonizing activities of the Greeks, Romans, Christians, Mohammedans, Hebrews, Buddhists\ld\ who attempted to compress, resolve and rationalize the many gods (who had many attributes and stood for many things), spirits, realms and cultures. Early unified-field theorizing. (And at the same time, intractable organic trees were converted into rows of stone pillars with stone leaves on top to control the wild proliferation of nature and to house this riot of now-domesticated gods.) Not only did the arcane formations of the past lurk on, visible to the eye, palpable to the touch, but in dream-states (since brain activity generates a wild, a surreal associationism, generating metaphors and conceits); the ever-present archeology of past formations collected in social thought (the true artificial intelligence\slash memory) which was the matrix through which education is sifted. These re-emerge when unifying attempts run into trouble in their encounter with intractable reality.
 
-When order, universality, oneness, falls apart, when classification fails, fallback positions are prepared. Contradictions are invented, the perniciousness of dialectical thought. Human thought (or at least the thought of some subset of humans) seems obsessed with the use of polarities to explain what will not fit; similarities percieved as counter-identities. (Is a lobster the opposite of a human?) All this finds its way into computer thought, based, simply enough, on addition ... mechanistic thinking built on the limited operations that, first logic, then switching devices and logic gates can perform (input-output and feedback devices). For all its complexity, any computer has to use a symbolic logic, which is limited by the control of the flows of electricity. The speed of a vast amount of miniscule operations is mistaken for complexity. The messiness outside this logical world --- whole living ecosystems in wild and wonderous irregular shapes, plants, marine shells, animals, microorganisms, a memory of jungles, sea bottoms, a casual distribution of galaxies --- must be reduced to binaries, Cartesian\slash Leibnizian pixels on an image-processor's screen, or a printout. And this presumably matches the world outside this hermeneutical cave of transistors.\footnote{Computerized image-recognition depends on building up a reference library of simplified, sensor-apprehensible images, compatible with computer recognition.} All this is another way of, as Aristotle put it, holding up the mirror to nature. We see what a few of us, who have designed the sensors, expect us to see; the designers have their preconceptions reflected.
+When order, universality, oneness, falls apart, when classification fails, fallback positions are prepared. Contradictions are invented, the perniciousness of dialectical thought. Human thought (or at least the thought of some subset of humans) seems obsessed with the use of polarities to explain what will not fit; similarities perceived as counter-identities. (Is a lobster the opposite of a human?) All this finds its way into computer thought, based, simply enough, on addition\ld\ mechanistic thinking built on the limited operations that, first logic, then switching devices and logic gates can perform (input-output and feedback devices). For all its complexity, any computer has to use a symbolic logic, which is limited by the control of the flows of electricity. The speed of a vast amount of miniscule operations is mistaken for complexity. The messiness outside this logical world---whole living ecosystems in wild and wondrous irregular shapes, plants, marine shells, animals, microorganisms, a memory of jungles, sea bottoms, a casual distribution of galaxies---must be reduced to binaries, Cartesian\slash Leibnizian pixels on an image-processor's screen, or a printout. And this presumably matches the world outside this hermeneutical cave of transistors. (Computerized image-recognition depends on building up a reference library of simplified, sensor-apprehensible images, compatible with computer recognition.) All this is another way of, as Aristotle put it, holding up the mirror to nature. We see what a few of us, who have designed the sensors, expect us to see; the designers have their preconceptions reflected.
 
-Economic behavior is also obsessed with input-output polarities; systems which account for-and-of capital flows, the \emph{yin} of debts and the \emph{yang} of credits; male gain and female loss; dark and light; the dialectic in which money in a bank is a liability and money out on loan is an asset; the hurling of a profit in Frankfurt to a loss-column stationed in Panama (but both in an electronic balance sheet in, say, New York), or anywhere. All quite Hegelian. Hegelian thought is particularly applicable to accounting systems. In the first place, it is ideal, which is to say that it deals with representations, not actualities. In the second place, implicitly shows progressive and inevitable, even divine growth --- an organic metaphor --- which, when tied to evolutionism, fulfills itself, or God's Purpose, in Time.
+Economic behavior is also obsessed with input-output polarities; systems which account for-and-of capital flows, the \e{yin} of debts and the \e{yang} of credits; male gain and female loss; dark and light; the dialectic in which money in a bank is a liability and money out on loan is an asset; the hurling of a profit in Frankfurt to a loss-column stationed in Panama (but both in an electronic balance sheet in, say, New York), or anywhere. All quite Hegelian. Hegelian thought is particularly applicable to accounting systems. In the first place, it is ideal, which is to say that it deals with representations, not actualities. In the second place, implicitly shows progressive and inevitable, even divine growth---an organic metaphor---which, when tied to evolutionism, fulfills itself, or God's Purpose, in Time.
 
-Now, the question is: was Hegel the father of the modern, automated balance sheet, or does his thinking derive from double-entry accounting practices? We have been trapped since double-entry bookkeeping and unit-pricing was invented by the ancients. Another question is, how to deal with the unexpected, random, \emph{risk}, and uncertainty? If no one knows what happens \enquote{out there,} but projects: if no one knows what happened \enquote{back then,} but retrojects (doing a long run ... for which a computer is ideally constructed ... if the events can be specified), the past, present and future can be procrusted into a prophet's or risk-analyst's dream. (Consider Joseph in Egypt, whom we will mention again.)
+Now, the question is: was Hegel the father of the modern, automated balance sheet, or does his thinking derive from double-entry accounting practices? We have been trapped since double-entry bookkeeping and unit-pricing was invented by the ancients. Another question is, how to deal with the unexpected, random, \e{risk}, and uncertainty? If no one knows what happens \dq{out there,} but projects: if no one knows what happened \dq{back then,} but retrojects (doing a long run\ld\ for which a computer is ideally constructed\ld\ if the events can be specified), the past, present and future can be procrusted into a prophet's or risk-analyst's dream. (Consider Joseph in Egypt, whom we will mention again.)
 
-In physics, this long range dialectic concerns itself with entropification, for which quite Manichean Maxwellian Demons were invented to reconcentrate dissolving matter and overcome long term loss. Maxwellian Demons dealt with particle matter, but couldn't deal with the quality of matter; it was a Statistical conceit. Norbert Wiener derided the very notion of \enquote{quality,} which he considered a Medieval hangover. How can you measure or chart a quality? Humans, inventing particle physics (physical biologists) see humans as agglomerations of quanta.
+In physics, this long range dialectic concerns itself with entropification, for which quite Manichean Maxwellian Demons were invented to reconcentrate dissolving matter and overcome long term loss. Maxwellian Demons dealt with particle matter, but couldn't deal with the quality of matter; it was a Statistical conceit. Norbert Wiener derided the very notion of \dq{quality,} which he considered a Medieval hangover. How can you measure or chart a quality? Humans, inventing particle physics (physical biologists) see humans as agglomerations of quanta.
 
-As for business, the non-quantifiable aspects, compulsive behavior, fundamental irrationality, the rites attending successes or failure, the ceremonies of contacts and connections, the accompanying trade in prestige and rank (and frequently women), panoply, display, to say nothing of individual obsessions, trade in contracts, stupidity, shortsightedness, favoritism, structural theivery, fraudulent accounting, altered and destroyed records, computer glitches (and bad design), invented numbers, nepotism, bribery, kickbacks, the giving and receiving of presents, acts of abject faith, all are ever-present and must be factored in ... however indirectly.
+As for business, the non-quantifiable aspects, compulsive behavior, fundamental irrationality, the rites attending successes or failure, the ceremonies of contacts and connections, the accompanying trade in prestige and rank (and frequently women), panoply, display, to say nothing of individual obsessions, trade in contracts, stupidity, shortsightedness, favoritism, structural thievery, fraudulent accounting, altered and destroyed records, computer glitches (and bad design), invented numbers, nepotism, bribery, kickbacks, the giving and receiving of presents, acts of abject faith, all are ever-present and must be factored in\ld\ however indirectly.
 
 These sorts of thinking (particlization, accretion, mutational variation within combinatorial limits, dialectical contradiction, fleshly pythagoreanism, accretive historicism on the pilgrim's progress to transubstantiation and resubstantiation), when applied to the replication of organisms, give rise to the notion of genetic structures as information. This living, quivering biology, this jellyware, comes to be seen as mysterious codes, cryptograms, instructional algorithms for the development of bodies. In sociobiological thought, bodies are mere totality shells, packets, envelopes for transmitting genetic messages along a carrier wave, that becomes embodied from time to time, down the ages. Genetics is not only information, but it is memory. (And, as an instrumentality that interferes in the universe's workings, generates mind which then generates it.)\ Perhaps, at time's end, the messages will reach such a level of accretion and recombination that humans will evolve and transmogrify into angels. (Hence, one burden of this essay is time itself.)
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 At this point in history, the conceptual and theoretical constructs are distilling and summarizing the past into programs that mimic natural and human activities. And conversely, the rich paper records are being concealed, secreted away in caves like the treasure of the Niebelungs. The distillation remains in databases, hoarded by large corporations and governments.
 
-More and more the world is seen in terms of information no matter what the reality is. Just look at the account books, the numbers, the projections, the returns. But computerized account books tend toward a sort of semi-autonomy --- market-to-market, interactively linked --- and drive this outer reality before it. The investment in computer-compatible thought is so great that more and more we become trapped in this new culture and they cannot admit that we have been led down the wrong fork in history's decision tree.
+More and more the world is seen in terms of information no matter what the reality is. Just look at the account books, the numbers, the projections, the returns. But computerized account books tend toward a sort of semi-autonomy---market-to-market, interactively linked---and drive this outer reality before it. The investment in computer-compatible thought is so great that more and more we become trapped in this new culture and they cannot admit that we have been led down the wrong fork in history's decision tree.
 
-If all is fundamentally the same, it follows that a data base in one language should have the power to talk to data bases of other disciplines in other languages (mediated, of course, by programmers, protocols, translators, modems, computers, networkings...). One might have to descend into the primal language and then, choosing the right fork in the decision tree, emerge into the proper language. If only one can design the right protocols, ones that will not only link among unlike, competetive machines with unlike, competetive architectures --- IBM's, Control Datas, Apples, Crays, DEC's --- but also unlike transmittal systems run by competetive companies. Languages can be united because each field and domain, each way of looking at things, should be a subset of the one, universal, primal language. Perhaps what is expressed in one domain should be considered as an encryption of what is expressed in another domain.
+If all is fundamentally the same, it follows that a data base in one language should have the power to talk to data bases of other disciplines in other languages (mediated, of course, by programmers, protocols, translators, modems, computers, networkings\ld). One might have to descend into the primal language and then, choosing the right fork in the decision tree, emerge into the proper language. If only one can design the right protocols, ones that will not only link among unlike, competitive machines with unlike, competitive architectures---IBM's, Control Datas, Apples, Crays, DEC's---but also unlike transmittal systems run by competitive companies. Languages can be united because each field and domain, each way of looking at things, should be a subset of the one, universal, primal language. Perhaps what is expressed in one domain should be considered as an encryption of what is expressed in another domain.
 
-However, not only do computers in different disciplines not translate into one another well, but different manufacturers and communicating companies (to say nothing of nations), while proclaiming one world, one language, falling prices, one global village, and universal compatibility, fight one another tooth and nail. They erect a maze of priced mediations and product differentiation, countering speed and directness of transmission with profitable labyrinths, in different time-zones, each turn and gate tolled and tariffed, competing and maintaining secrecy, organizing those to whom they sell services on a need-to-know-and-pay basis, playing the differentials among different states of being, business and knowledge. (Citicorp, for instance, computerizing and gaining speed, places its headquarters in South Dakota in order to --- taking advantage of the laws --- gain advantage which allows it to keep checks for a certain time and thus enjoy a float in the empyrean.)
+However, not only do computers in different disciplines not translate into one another well, but different manufacturers and communicating companies (to say nothing of nations), while proclaiming one world, one language, falling prices, one global village, and universal compatibility, fight one another tooth and nail. They erect a maze of priced mediations and product differentiation, countering speed and directness of transmission with profitable labyrinths, in different time-zones, each turn and gate tolled and tariffed, competing and maintaining secrecy, organizing those to whom they sell services on a need-to-know-and-pay basis, playing the differentials among different states of being, business and knowledge. (Citicorp, for instance, computerizing and gaining speed, places its headquarters in South Dakota in order to---taking advantage of the laws---gain advantage which allows it to keep checks for a certain time and thus enjoy a float in the empyrean.)
 
 There are certain laws to be deduced from the observation of business practice. Information management, traffic control and pricing follows the timeless strategy of railroads in the past: which is to say, given a certain limited distance, the problem becomes to increase distance by increasing price. Economies of scale are developed, need for certain volumes regardless of content, development risk to be paid for by the consumer. Tesseracts of tax shelters spring up. An incredible maze of contradictory laws emerge requiring incredible expenditures of intellectual energy and computing time. Information theorists always leave out the costs. Claude Shannon quantified information; AT\&T and IBM priced it. Shannon's theory did not develop in a vacuum; he did his work for Defense and Bell. Where did the money come from? What did the funders want and what did they not want? What other enterprises cross-subsidized these developments? What solids were melted down, who was liquidated to fund the Great Enterprise? No different than the practices of the ancient Phoenecians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans, Venetians, Fuggers, or any other merchants in history. (In addition, of course, the amounts of energy, in terms of electricity, required to run and cool computers is staggering.)
 
 If we take into account the human, informal, anti-organizational, shadow-organizational networks, the person-to-person contacts, those who emerge to resist this development, those who have an interest in not sharing information, we see vast, centrifugal forces at work. On the one hand, the emergence of a unified system, a sort of electronic Catholic Church: on the other, a sort of electrofeudalism.
 
-Given all this potential convertibility, how can money talk to nuclear particles, pension funds speak recombinant genetics, prime numbers retrieve fictional heroes\ldots ? Can we really create a translation program, which is to say a unified field theory? Or should we, not having been invited to the initial feast of reason, create a \emph{disunified field theory}?
+Given all this potential convertibility, how can money talk to nuclear particles, pension funds speak recombinant genetics, prime numbers retrieve fictional heroes\ld ? Can we really create a translation program, which is to say a unified field theory? Or should we, not having been invited to the initial feast of reason, create a \e{disunified field theory}?
 
-The primal-language business, like the origins business, is highly competetive (since the costs of computer runs is much more than paper experiments). One of our many ultimate transformational and alchemical media, a primal liquidity in which all life is dissolved, reconstituted and redisolved is genetics. What is the market value of bioengineering as expressed in some form, with purchases involved, with manufactured products and processes at the end, investible end-products and investors screaming for their dividends, trying to hurry time up? Will it cost the world's savings to transform humans and will we be left with one creature at the end?
+The primal-language business, like the origins business, is highly competitive (since the costs of computer runs is much more than paper experiments). One of our many ultimate transformational and alchemical media, a primal liquidity in which all life is dissolved, reconstituted and redissolved is genetics. What is the market value of bioengineering as expressed in some form, with purchases involved, with manufactured products and processes at the end, investible end-products and investors screaming for their dividends, trying to hurry time up? Will it cost the world's savings to transform humans and will we be left with one creature at the end?
 
-We raise the same questions about particle-wave physics and its ruinously expensive paraphenalia. Finance, literature, genetics, nuclear physics: four (of many) primal languages; three media in which translations from realm to realm can be seen as new versions of progressive metamorphoses.
+We raise the same questions about particle-wave physics and its ruinously expensive paraphernalia. Finance, literature, genetics, nuclear physics: four (of many) primal languages; three media in which translations from realm to realm can be seen as new versions of progressive metamorphoses.
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 So we begin again from another angle, using one of the most highly computerized of modern entities: the corporation. We will talk for a while about entities, borders (or skins), sets, organisms, time-series, populations and genetics.
 
-We live in a time when corporate operations have become speeded up. They have become mobile: they waltz across the sea: they take wing and fly into the night: they grow slender and slip through 30 gigabyte-wide needle's eyes. They attack and pillage one another. They split into pieces and recoalesce. They live in this age and other ages. Metanational entities gobble up chunks of their national hosts. Nothing new about that: what is new is the informational paraphenalia and the high-speed, distance-insensitive, time-devouring equipment which pressages a vast political change.
+We live in a time when corporate operations have become speeded up. They have become mobile: they waltz across the sea: they take wing and fly into the night: they grow slender and slip through 30 gigabyte-wide needle's eyes. They attack and pillage one another. They split into pieces and recoalesce. They live in this age and other ages. Metanational entities gobble up chunks of their national hosts. Nothing new about that: what is new is the informational paraphernalia and the high-speed, distance-insensitive, time-devouring equipment which presages a vast political change.
 
-Corporations are --- at least legally, and metaphorically --- seperate entities. At the same time they are not. They are linked into para/meta/supra/sub-networks by investors, interlocking consortia, joint ventures, cartels... They defy the notion of discrete sets. A corporation has a boundary only for purposes of classification and identification. (By the same token, one can also say that conceptual imprisonment denies the human their individuality.)
+Corporations are---at least legally, and metaphorically---separate entities. At the same time they are not. They are linked into para/meta/supra/sub-networks by investors, interlocking consortia, joint ventures, cartels\ld\ They defy the notion of discrete sets. A corporation has a boundary only for purposes of classification and identification. (By the same token, one can also say that conceptual imprisonment denies the human their individuality.)
 
-A corporation is defined as a living being in the \emph{contemplation} of the Law. A corporation is diverse. The contemplating Law is also not only diverse, but dynamic and changeable, requiring lawyers, plaintiffs, litigants, defendants, judges and legal memory banks (precedents) assembled through the ages. (Law too is being placed in data banks, where into a system called Lexis.) a corporation spans nations, And it is contemplated by several systems of law at the same time. Are we expected to believe that the emanation of a complex of people, events and memories, the law, can \emph{contemplate} the abstracted emanation of a complex of people, events and memorigs, a corporation? That is to say a fiction, or anthology, or novel, contemplates another fiction, another anthology, another novel. A sort of organic \emph{character}? We need hunt no further. Here, truly, is artificial intelligence. Why spend any more R\&D money?
+A corporation is defined as a living being in the \e{contemplation} of the Law. A corporation is diverse. The contemplating Law is also not only diverse, but dynamic and changeable, requiring lawyers, plaintiffs, litigants, defendants, judges and legal memory banks (precedents) assembled through the ages. (Law too is being placed in data banks, where into a system called Lexis.) a corporation spans nations, And it is contemplated by several systems of law at the same time. Are we expected to believe that the emanation of a complex of people, events and memories, the law, can \e{contemplate} the abstracted emanation of a complex of people, events and memories, a corporation? That is to say a fiction, or anthology, or novel, contemplates another fiction, another anthology, another novel. A sort of organic \e{character}? We need hunt no further. Here, truly, is artificial intelligence. Why spend any more R\&D money?
 
 The corporation can be represented as information in a pure, financial form, which is a slice of the composite life of lives and works in progress, taken at some point in time. (Financial institutions, especially banks, are considered here because of all business, the financial entity is the most heavily intellectualized, the most heavily dependent on computers and communications. The technology is inextricably bound up with the value-flows, the calculations being fundamentally simple.) While appearing abstract, ideal, it is neither ideal nor platonic, nor is it static. Its positions can be caught in an account sheet, but not in its motion. Its motion can be caught, but the positions are lost. Sound familiar? Its existence now requires the constant intervention of humans and machines, managing, evaluating, working, integrating it into a market structure. It includes several methodological histories; the evolution of the notion of evaluation and the history of its accretion of value. This is to say humans and machines producing, trading, buying and selling money or near-money. If it is to have life, it must have lives to keep on working. Its abstract operations have concrete results that drive the lives of the people inside of it and outside of it.
 
-With the advent of the high-speed calculator, robots, and programs (based on long statistical runs of past performances, accretions of admonitory history-scenarios and tortured equations) which mimic some financial transactions, such trading and instantaneous as automated communication programs to link buyers and sellers into an electronic market, it becomes possible to concieve of a pure, automated and constantly adjusted financial corporation, one totally devoid of humans, territories, factories...It would do all the things financial organizations do: move money around, trade, arbitrage, take deposits, account, merge, acquire, make long and short term loans, divest, invest, liquidate, grow, collect, lobby for laws, pay or dodge taxes, contemplate risk and probability, now and then order an assasination, all while living in exotic, anaerobic climes.
+With the advent of the high-speed calculator, robots, and programs (based on long statistical runs of past performances, accretions of admonitory history-scenarios and tortured equations) which mimic some financial transactions, such trading and instantaneous as automated communication programs to link buyers and sellers into an electronic market, it becomes possible to conceive of a pure, automated and constantly adjusted financial corporation, one totally devoid of humans, territories, factories\ld\ It would do all the things financial organizations do: move money around, trade, arbitrage, take deposits, account, merge, acquire, make long and short term loans, divest, invest, liquidate, grow, collect, lobby for laws, pay or dodge taxes, contemplate risk and probability, now and then order an assassination, all while living in exotic, anaerobic climes.
 
-If there is no plant in the physical sense, there have to be virtual \emph{plants}, as-if factories, represented on paper or in computers, stored in data banks, to guide bankers in their moves, driven by modes of evaluation, lists of people and institutions to borrow from or loan to, risk studies about good and bad investments (prophetic programs; Joseph scenarios), market-switching-and-routing programs for heaving pools of money this way and that.
+If there is no plant in the physical sense, there have to be virtual \e{plants}, as-if factories, represented on paper or in computers, stored in data banks, to guide bankers in their moves, driven by modes of evaluation, lists of people and institutions to borrow from or loan to, risk studies about good and bad investments (prophetic programs; Joseph scenarios), market-switching-and-routing programs for heaving pools of money this way and that.
 
-But to be meaningful, this fictional being must be connected to other markets and other forms of endeavor in real time, a something, somewhere in the universe to connect to, someplace to enter inputs, a someone, or set of someones or the simulation of someones to credit these messages from this totally automated financial institution. Most of all, such an ideal financial being, in order to exist, must be credible: that is, accepted as a motivating act of faith, by other institutions, other beings, and Law. This has not happened yet. As we talk about corporations, we still detect humans ... somewhere, if only living in palaces. It still needs humans to interact. Humans to be affected by these interactions. Although one can see a time when some automated complex of corporations consume what some automated complex of corporations produce.
+But to be meaningful, this fictional being must be connected to other markets and other forms of endeavor in real time, a something, somewhere in the universe to connect to, someplace to enter inputs, a someone, or set of someones or the simulation of someones to credit these messages from this totally automated financial institution. Most of all, such an ideal financial being, in order to exist, must be credible: that is, accepted as a motivating act of faith, by other institutions, other beings, and Law. This has not happened yet. As we talk about corporations, we still detect humans\ld\ somewhere, if only living in palaces. It still needs humans to interact. Humans to be affected by these interactions. Although one can see a time when some automated complex of corporations consume what some automated complex of corporations produce.
 
-We talk about the life of the corporation in several ways, as we talk about the life of an organism. Humans are stockholders, directors, traders, officers, consumers, workers. All who contribute to the life and existence of this contemplated being have histories, both social and biological. They may also be defined as a gene-pool, although differing from a race. This population is the result of diversified reproduction as against non-diversified reproduction (a tribe, clan, race, ethnicity, nation; those with subsets of shared genes). There is, to be sure, such a thing as a family corporation, a form that bridges the gap between a dynasty and shareholder \enquote{democracy.}) Thus one can say that the corporation has a sort of genetic structure, one composed of sets of genetic structures, each set composed of parts of other sets, defined or ensetted not so much by family or race consanguinity as by their participation in the enterprise. Indirectly, this corporate organism has, so to speak, a genome, which is to say a complete genetic constitution. At the same time its participants invest, give life to, guide the destinies of other such entities which have different genomes, for one must spread risk and diversify.
+We talk about the life of the corporation in several ways, as we talk about the life of an organism. Humans are stockholders, directors, traders, officers, consumers, workers. All who contribute to the life and existence of this contemplated being have histories, both social and biological. They may also be defined as a gene-pool, although differing from a race. This population is the result of diversified reproduction as against non-diversified reproduction (a tribe, clan, race, ethnicity, nation; those with subsets of shared genes). There is, to be sure, such a thing as a family corporation, a form that bridges the gap between a dynasty and shareholder \dq{democracy.} Thus one can say that the corporation has a sort of genetic structure, one composed of sets of genetic structures, each set composed of parts of other sets, defined or ensetted not so much by family or race consanguinity as by their participation in the enterprise. Indirectly, this corporate organism has, so to speak, a genome, which is to say a complete genetic constitution. At the same time its participants invest, give life to, guide the destinies of other such entities which have different genomes, for one must spread risk and diversify.
 
-Another way to think about the corporation is from the perspective of investments (stock, bonds, etc.), plus other rules for life, governance and growth (even replication). This combination of investments and rules can be considered as the genes of the corporate, fictional organism. These metagenes are said to express themselves into living organisms. Genes, information of living beings express themselves into other living beings and also into metagentic forms: capital, which has its own rules of continuity and metamorphosis.
+Another way to think about the corporation is from the perspective of investments (stock, bonds, etc.), plus other rules for life, governance and growth (even replication). This combination of investments and rules can be considered as the genes of the corporate, fictional organism. These metagenes are said to express themselves into living organisms. Genes, information of living beings express themselves into other living beings and also into metagenetic forms: capital, which has its own rules of continuity and metamorphosis.
 
 Investments shapeshift into material life. Here we have begun to introduce the concept of modern significant demographies in which contiguity, as well as continuity is provided by investment, participation and modern communication. Replication does not require face-to-face existence. And so the question of space and time is raised again. Offshore receptacles with names, await; Panama is said to have at least one hundred thousand corporations of all sorts. Some are real. Some are shells, mere names of fabulous beasts that are inspirited and informed by a shower of electronic gold.
 
-It is possible to perform a mind experiment. Consider the genes, in their informa- tional aspect, of all who interact with the corporation, and search for something in common between genetics and corporate life, belongingness, in turn related to the equity\slash debt\slash assets expressed as stock, directorship, management, etc. This new set of translations relates to the organism's two totalities and is exemplified in the annual report, the balance sheet, which is a slice of life, frozen in time, but as transtemporally allusive to past and future histories as, say, Eliot's time-meditations in \booktitle{The Four Quartets}.
+It is possible to perform a mind experiment. Consider the genes, in their informational aspect, of all who interact with the corporation, and search for something in common between genetics and corporate life, belongingness, in turn related to the equity\slash debt\slash assets expressed as stock, directorship, management, etc. This new set of translations relates to the organism's two totalities and is exemplified in the annual report, the balance sheet, which is a slice of life, frozen in time, but as transtemporally allusive to past and future histories as, say, Eliot's time-meditations in \booktitle{The Four Quartets}.
 
-This being's genome can be seen as the result of a long stretch of accreted historic information (the story of the buildup of equity and credit) which can, through a series of reconstitutions (as one reads past organisms, arranged in a historic sequence, in the genetic memory of any being), be remodeled backwards on to life, production and reproduction of gods and humans. The \emph{names} of those past and present humans, the lives as they live, replicate in parallel, can be mapped to the corporation's replication pattern. Or we can go forward again from these humans to dissolve them, their essences, into this legal fiction, this corporate being. It's a simple mapping problem; genetic information encrypting corporate information and conversely. Once again; we should not forget that both sets of information involve human activity, or at least the \emph{still-living memory} of human activity. Considering the age-old continuity of some dynastic fortunes, this is not too arcane to believe. After all, the corporation is a metaphor embodying real human existence. It is a chimera.
+This being's genome can be seen as the result of a long stretch of accreted historic information (the story of the buildup of equity and credit) which can, through a series of reconstitutions (as one reads past organisms, arranged in a historic sequence, in the genetic memory of any being), be remodeled backwards on to life, production and reproduction of gods and humans. The \e{names} of those past and present humans, the lives as they live, replicate in parallel, can be mapped to the corporation's replication pattern. Or we can go forward again from these humans to dissolve them, their essences, into this legal fiction, this corporate being. It's a simple mapping problem; genetic information encrypting corporate information and conversely. Once again; we should not forget that both sets of information involve human activity, or at least the \e{still-living memory} of human activity. Considering the age-old continuity of some dynastic fortunes, this is not too arcane to believe. After all, the corporation is a metaphor embodying real human existence. It is a chimera.
 
 Corporate mergers are referred to in sexual terms; marriage, even rape. Are these mere words, anthropomorphisms used to describe a phenomenon too complex for words? Shorthand? Key words, which when decrypted, open up a vision of vast legal and credit data banks containing huge record depositories of swiftly shifting law, money, reports, memos, accountings, as well as histories of the mixing of complex social groupings, populations, evolving, revolving through a variety of forms? An analogy?
 
-There is a problem here: are we to take a metaphor seriously? Is it truly descriptive of a complex reality? No, but... The keyword always becomes an intrinsic contentual part of the phenomenon descibed; it is wrenched loose with the greatest difficulty. What do lawyers and accountants argue about? They argue about \emph{words} and \emph{semantics}. They structure, deconstruct, semiotisize, mine the law-bodies for hermeneutic nuggets: they do \emph{literary} criticism and linguistic analysis. They invent new, post-dated critical theory.
+There is a problem here: are we to take a metaphor seriously? Is it truly descriptive of a complex reality? No, but\ld\ The keyword always becomes an intrinsic contentual part of the phenomenon described; it is wrenched loose with the greatest difficulty. What do lawyers and accountants argue about? They argue about \e{words} and \e{semantics}. They structure, deconstruct, semiotisize, mine the law-bodies for hermeneutic nuggets: they do \e{literary} criticism and linguistic analysis. They invent new, post-dated critical theory.
 
-And if we are talking about fictions, try to think of what the Oedipus Complex describes without the word \enquote{Oedipus} to unlock the memory bank. Try to think of the merging, through a marriage, involving two individuals, representative of two complex dynasties (corporate entities) and fortunes (bloodlines or genes; property and treasure); royal families. Whenever we are talking of corporate or dynastic marriage, in terms of informational essences, we are describing an alchemical wedding, a marriage of heroes, gods, archeiypal figures, and enterprise. But what is it that is mated? People? Yes. But also information: bonds, representations, money, deeds, abstractions symbols (stock, for land) which are generalized information, not specific to any corporations, resolvable into things --- people, factories --- as the genetic information is potentially resolvable into bodies of living beings, races, once properly expressed.
+And if we are talking about fictions, try to think of what the Oedipus Complex describes without the word \dq{Oedipus} to unlock the memory bank. Try to think of the merging, through a marriage, involving two individuals, representative of two complex dynasties (corporate entities) and fortunes (bloodlines or genes; property and treasure); royal families. Whenever we are talking of corporate or dynastic marriage, in terms of informational essences, we are describing an alchemical wedding, a marriage of heroes, gods, archetypal figures, and enterprise. But what is it that is mated? People? Yes. But also information: bonds, representations, money, deeds, abstractions symbols (stock, for land) which are generalized information, not specific to any corporations, resolvable into things---people, factories---as the genetic information is potentially resolvable into bodies of living beings, races, once properly expressed.
 
-A vast practical and ceremonial apparatus is required to bring alchemical essences together. A vast, practical, biological and cere- monial apparatus is required to bring the genetic essences of any two people together. When it comes to the marriage of dynasties or fortunes, ceremonial behavior increases (to say nothing about a great to-do about contracts). Mating dances. (Stock in \emph{this} company or \emph{that} company allows for certain kinds celebratory rites and participations. When stock is loaned against currency, that currency is potentially part of \emph{any} corporation, but only when traded for new securities with their particular, limited set of behavioral instructions.)
+A vast practical and ceremonial apparatus is required to bring alchemical essences together. A vast, practical, biological and ceremonial apparatus is required to bring the genetic essences of any two people together. When it comes to the marriage of dynasties or fortunes, ceremonial behavior increases (to say nothing about a great to-do about contracts). Mating dances. (Stock in \e{this} company or \e{that} company allows for certain kinds celebratory rites and participations. When stock is loaned against currency, that currency is potentially part of \e{any} corporation, but only when traded for new securities with their particular, limited set of behavioral instructions.)
 
-If a human is a combination of two halved gene-sets, a kind of information-bearing and organism-producing program, then a corporate merger is a multi-sexual, abstract orgy. It requires dozens, thousands of essence-sets to conjoin, to participate, to be transferred in order to materialize into another kind of existence. Certainly as long as human activity goes on, as long as computerized and abstraction-activity goes on, as long as it is recognized in the contemplation of law and the faith of people, this wonderous being lives. Go tell someone that IBM does not live.
+If a human is a combination of two halved gene-sets, a kind of information-bearing and organism-producing program, then a corporate merger is a multi-sexual, abstract orgy. It requires dozens, thousands of essence-sets to conjoin, to participate, to be transferred in order to materialize into another kind of existence. Certainly as long as human activity goes on, as long as computerized and abstraction-activity goes on, as long as it is recognized in the contemplation of law and the faith of people, this wondrous being lives. Go tell someone that IBM does not live.
 
-Do analogies of corporate marriage incorrectly define this entity? While we wait --- probably forever\footnote{Sorry, Sol. --- S.W. Editorial} --- for pure, artificial intelligence to come on line and carry on the purified and transcendent sum of knowledge, making new, autonomous decisions, we can say: no humans, no corporations. No human reproduction, birth, death? No corporations. The corporations may not actually mate, but mating and reproduction must go on somewhere. Is this any sillier than saying, as the sociobiologists do, that the body is nature's way of producing more DNA? The exchanges, assets, liabilities, accretions, all the other signs of operations in the corporation's informational sphere can be said to be determinants of social behavior inside and outside (wherever its influence reaches) this being. It's individuals are just as caught up in a sort of fate as poor Oedipus (a dynastic drama) was. Considering the rhetoric; invisible religions, acts of abject faith, superstition, lurk beneath the most rational, mathematical and scientific works. Magic continues to shape human behavior.
+Do analogies of corporate marriage incorrectly define this entity? While we wait---probably forever\ednote{Sorry, Sol.}---for pure, artificial intelligence to come on line and carry on the purified and transcendent sum of knowledge, making new, autonomous decisions, we can say: no humans, no corporations. No human reproduction, birth, death? No corporations. The corporations may not actually mate, but mating and reproduction must go on somewhere. Is this any sillier than saying, as the sociobiologists do, that the body is nature's way of producing more DNA? The exchanges, assets, liabilities, accretions, all the other signs of operations in the corporation's informational sphere can be said to be determinants of social behavior inside and outside (wherever its influence reaches) this being. It's individuals are just as caught up in a sort of fate as poor Oedipus (a dynastic drama) was. Considering the rhetoric; invisible religions, acts of abject faith, superstition, lurk beneath the most rational, mathematical and scientific works. Magic continues to shape human behavior.
 
-In ancient mythology there were organisms that had lion's heads, wings, human bodies, snake's tails, the heads of hawks and owls... We could in principle make a genetic map of such a being. A modern, diversified transnational being is, of course, infinitely more complex and amorphous, for have an organism composed of living we things, dead things, and the rememberances of things dead and past, no less phantasmagoric than those ancient sphinxes, chimeras, minotaurs and hydras.
+In ancient mythology there were organisms that had lion's heads, wings, human bodies, snake's tails, the heads of hawks and owls\ld\ We could in principle make a genetic map of such a being. A modern, diversified transnational being is, of course, infinitely more complex and amorphous, for have an organism composed of living we things, dead things, and the remembrances of things dead and past, no less phantasmagoric than those ancient sphinxes, chimeras, minotaurs and hydras.
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 Let's backtrack to wherever it is that the Origins of Western Civilization are reinvented and then go forward to try a little progressive meta-history of this most modern of organisms. Greece, a tiny time-slice inserted far down, towards the beginning of the ascent-trajectory of western Man. Our art, philosophy, logic are said to begin here. What if all memory of Greece were erased?
 
-All countries, cultures and religions secrete, value and store up selective histories and mythologies to legitimate themselves. What do Europe and America consider themselves to be without this passing nod to Greek origins? Even Hitler's and Mussolini's regimes featured Greek-derived iconography. To make these histories, an amalgam of events, myths, legends, folk tales, sagas, religious deeds, epics (to say nothing of vast storehouses of paper, as well as appropriate mnemonic architecture and monuments) were collated. Thus a quasi-arbitrary sequence is created, one linking events into causal chains in order to create the feel of mystical inevitability, celebrating the everconstant triumph of the present. Mistakes or horrors are leached out or are considered to be the price one pays for progress. Continuity, progress, history is a smoothing out of the sudden, the disruptive, the violent, the random and unaccounted-for. Even the most rationalistic sequences must include the cultural, for logic too is a \emph{culture}.
+All countries, cultures and religions secrete, value and store up selective histories and mythologies to legitimate themselves. What do Europe and America consider themselves to be without this passing nod to Greek origins? Even Hitler's and Mussolini's regimes featured Greek-derived iconography. To make these histories, an amalgam of events, myths, legends, folk tales, sagas, religious deeds, epics (to say nothing of vast storehouses of paper, as well as appropriate mnemonic architecture and monuments) were collated. Thus a quasi-arbitrary sequence is created, one linking events into causal chains in order to create the feel of mystical inevitability, celebrating the ever-constant triumph of the present. Mistakes or horrors are leached out or are considered to be the price one pays for progress. Continuity, progress, history is a smoothing out of the sudden, the disruptive, the violent, the random and unaccounted-for. Even the most rationalistic sequences must include the cultural, for logic too is a \e{culture}.
 
-The building up of Western Civilization is a story of grand strides toward unity, yet requiring breakdowns and fragmentation of old formations: that is to say, re-feudalization before new reorganization (note the re-feudalization of AT\&T). This totalizing sequence constitutes a grand myth --- given an ascendant trajectory which will avoid breakdowns --- called progress or sometimes evolution --- beginning in the past few hundred years when some percieved that the industrial revolution had to rewrite the old myths into new ones, forever ending circles and cycles and introducing exponential curves reaching into the empyrean (sometimes called space). To question this accretion at any point is to disrupt the spell the Grand Ascent has over us.
+The building up of Western Civilization is a story of grand strides toward unity, yet requiring breakdowns and fragmentation of old formations: that is to say, re-feudalization before new reorganization (note the re-feudalization of AT\&T). This totalizing sequence constitutes a grand myth---given an ascendant trajectory which will avoid breakdowns---called progress or sometimes evolution---beginning in the past few hundred years when some perceived that the industrial revolution had to rewrite the old myths into new ones, forever ending circles and cycles and introducing exponential curves reaching into the empyrean (sometimes called space). To question this accretion at any point is to disrupt the spell the Grand Ascent has over us.
 
-It may be argued that certain events were chosen arbitrarily; an association of ideas about event sequences, which happen to have --- we have not accounted for pure invention --- operated in a certain temporal sequence, not nescessarily in a cause-effect line. A politico-mythico-Lockian mnemonic. Ultimately G\"{o}del makes the point that the linking of all logical steps depends on an act of faith, just as the assignment of meaning to a pool of securities is an act of faith.
+It may be argued that certain events were chosen arbitrarily; an association of ideas about event sequences, which happen to have---we have not accounted for pure invention---operated in a certain temporal sequence, not necessarily in a cause-effect line. A politico-mythico-Lockean mnemonic. Ultimately Gödel makes the point that the linking of all logical steps depends on an act of faith, just as the assignment of meaning to a pool of securities is an act of faith.
 
-We can follow some of the many arbitrary feeder streams that empty into this ocean of Western Culture. Oedipus, for example, is not merely a Greek play about a hubris-ridden, stubborn figure, one prototypical individual, blinded and suffering. It is the story of the restoration of balanced ethical and divine budgets. The tale is also about a power struggle, a plot in the face of an environmental disaster: medical (plague), economic (starvation), genetic (dynastic legitimation: though it is not specifically mentioned as such, genetic information as fate --- as explained by the retroactive prophecy delivered by Delphi --- are intertwined), and demographic catastrophe (sterility in women and potential population decline). The tale is also about an information-search (among other things for genetic origins). Who passed ownership and title on to whom and how, based on breeding lines of descent, a story of false and contaminated claimants. It is about the relationship of genetic purity to rulership, property, the laws that define those relationships, the rules of mating. The health of the nation is at stake.
+We can follow some of the many arbitrary feeder streams that empty into this ocean of Western Culture. Oedipus, for example, is not merely a Greek play about a hubris-ridden, stubborn figure, one prototypical individual, blinded and suffering. It is the story of the restoration of balanced ethical and divine budgets. The tale is also about a power struggle, a plot in the face of an environmental disaster: medical (plague), economic (starvation), genetic (dynastic legitimation: though it is not specifically mentioned as such, genetic information as fate---as explained by the retroactive prophecy delivered by Delphi---are intertwined), and demographic catastrophe (sterility in women and potential population decline). The tale is also about an information-search (among other things for genetic origins). Who passed ownership and title on to whom and how, based on breeding lines of descent, a story of false and contaminated claimants. It is about the relationship of genetic purity to rulership, property, the laws that define those relationships, the rules of mating. The health of the nation is at stake.
 
 Usually this play is interpreted for us as a moral, psychological and sexual tragedy (incest). Freud led us in the wrong direction, positing the erotic rather than the reproductive consequence, falling into a trap set by the old Hebrews and Christians. Lust, especially incest, leads to death. But then, we may ask, what did Freud know about life? What little he did know, he lied about.
 
-Genes, contaminated by \emph{deeds} (acquired characteristics, or fate?), the inadvertant sin of Oedipus and Jocasta have brought together the wrong genes, illegitimately. The sins of the rulers, or putative founders of this kingdom of Thebes (the information) contaminates the body politic, its well being, its health, and affects all nature. Did the Greeks know about genetics? No, but they were obsessed with plant and animal breeding and dynastic breeding strategies. The forced comparison between human activity and nature's response is interpreted in a magical way and skews human behavior. (That the play is also Athenian propaganda against Thebes and Delphi is another story in itself.) If the thought of the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle go into modern rational thought, why not these tales, which are \emph{logical} constructs disguised as dreamlike tales of scandals.
+Genes, contaminated by \e{deeds} (acquired characteristics, or fate?), the inadvertent sin of Oedipus and Jocasta have brought together the wrong genes, illegitimately. The sins of the rulers, or putative founders of this kingdom of Thebes (the information) contaminates the body politic, its well being, its health, and affects all nature. Did the Greeks know about genetics? No, but they were obsessed with plant and animal breeding and dynastic breeding strategies. The forced comparison between human activity and nature's response is interpreted in a magical way and skews human behavior. (That the play is also Athenian propaganda against Thebes and Delphi is another story in itself.) If the thought of the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle go into modern rational thought, why not these tales, which are \e{logical} constructs disguised as dreamlike tales of scandals.
 
 Another take: Helen of Troy gives birth to the Hellenes. We can now understand one of the reasons for the furor over Troy. Only Helen can give birth to the Hellenes and she---or the symbolic and real reproductive apparatus inside her beautiful body---has been stolen. Helen, mythic figure, like a queen ant or bee, is a collective emanation. As a carrier of a certain nation or race-spawning mechanism, she is, from an information-perspective, also collective. \booktitle{The Iliad} concerns a conflict of ethnicities, a polarity called Asia vs. Europe, an East-West struggle for the control of trading routes to the profitable Scythian hinterland. The war is used as a means of uniting diverse tribes into one mega-ethnicity. The first Grand Alliance, the first NATO-like Allies. These themes are summoned up again during the East-West war against the Persians. The Iliad includes a brilliant, albeit indirect, essay on set-theory disguised as a list of tribes. The Hellenes are the set of all Hellenic sets: a genome of a corporate body called a race.
 
-The Old Testament can be seen as a set of linked stories and myths about the Hebraic relationship to God's Design (covenant, contract, law ... rules of the game, more honored in the breach than the observation), a history of dynastic continuities; rules for the preservation of the Hebrew genepool and its royal subsets: the living propagation of God's word, or perhaps the Word made into code...God provides the operating system; the Hebrews write the software). The Design has rules for mating, accretion of power, and how to transmit \emph{informational} treasure (\emph{The Talmud}). The Old Testament is also a meditation on the rules of economic behavior, negotiation of conflicts, law, contracts, politics, nations.
+The Old Testament can be seen as a set of linked stories and myths about the Hebraic relationship to God's Design (covenant, contract, law\ld\ rules of the game, more honored in the breach than the observation), a history of dynastic continuities; rules for the preservation of the Hebrew gene pool and its royal subsets: the living propagation of God's word, or perhaps the Word made into code\ld\ God provides the operating system; the Hebrews write the software. The Design has rules for mating, accretion of power, and how to transmit \e{informational} treasure (\booktitle{The Talmud}). The Old Testament is also a meditation on the rules of economic behavior, negotiation of conflicts, law, contracts, politics, nations.
 
 These notions of a nation encompasses a genetic mystique. An ethnicity contains the idea of birth from a set of primal founders, all of whose descendants have shares in a commonality of genes and are related.
 
-Implicit in the Old Testament and Judaic law (and fulfilled in Kaballa) is a sort of evolutionary trajectory along a linear path. The history of Jews, unlike the history of \enquote{primitives} is not cyclical except in the longest sense. Gratification and fulfillment are deferred. The Hebrews introduce the notion of the long-range trajectory, completed by the coming of the Grand Recombinatorial and debt-redeeming wizard, The Messiah. This Messiah will reunite the scattered Hebrews (for how can they mate if they are far apart?). And \emph{this} Messiah is only for the Jews, only for \emph{one} genepool, no one else. Kaballistic lore, a heretical meditation on the same long-range cycle, is a wave with only one fall and rise, spread throughout the universe. The Messiah becomes a way of reuniting, reconcentrating the power that the disaspora fragmented, a kind of ultimate meta-history of mergers.
+Implicit in the Old Testament and Judaic law (and fulfilled in Kabbalah) is a sort of evolutionary trajectory along a linear path. The history of Jews, unlike the history of \dq{primitives} is not cyclical except in the longest sense. Gratification and fulfillment are deferred. The Hebrews introduce the notion of the long-range trajectory, completed by the coming of the Grand Recombinatorial and debt-redeeming wizard, The Messiah. This Messiah will reunite the scattered Hebrews (for how can they mate if they are far apart?). And \e{this} Messiah is only for the Jews, only for \e{one} gene pool, no one else. Kabbalistic lore, a heretical meditation on the same long-range cycle, is a wave with only one fall and rise, spread throughout the universe. The Messiah becomes a way of reuniting, reconcentrating the power that the diaspora fragmented, a kind of ultimate meta-history of mergers.
 
-Still another event: What strategy did Joseph use to monopolize Egypt's grain production for the Pharoah? Prophecy, dream interpretation, fear, land-reform, expropriation of commodities, rationalization of production (a kind of early, political, state-run agribusiness), storage facilities, new gathering techniques. Clearly Joseph must have used some form of accounting and econometric projection to affect a grand, structural and political change. His interpretation of Pharoah's dream is risk-analysis. Not only did Joseph change the environment around him, but his thought radiates down through the ages and affects agribusiness today. The short-range, forced march collectivization in the Soviet Union, the long range \enquote{collectivization} and concentration into agribusiness in the U.S. (using genetic cropping strategies), use the same pattern. Maybe we should call Jung's idea the collectivized memory.
+Still another event: What strategy did Joseph use to monopolize Egypt's grain production for the Pharaoh? Prophecy, dream interpretation, fear, land-reform, expropriation of commodities, rationalization of production (a kind of early, political, state-run agribusiness), storage facilities, new gathering techniques. Clearly Joseph must have used some form of accounting and econometric projection to affect a grand, structural and political change. His interpretation of Pharaoh's dream is risk-analysis. Not only did Joseph change the environment around him, but his thought radiates down through the ages and affects agribusiness today. The short-range, forced march collectivization in the Soviet Union, the long range \dq{collectivization} and concentration into agribusiness in the U.S. (using genetic cropping strategies), use the same pattern. Maybe we should call Jung's idea the collectivized memory.
 
-Up to the New Testament, the Hebrews are heterosexual. The Jews \enquote{give birth} to the Christians, or that's the way we tell the story. God uses Mary as a child-producing\slash nurturing vehicle (expropriating variant tales out of the past). Here is a departure into androgeny: self-replication, an ancient, sinful theme, for this is what Lucifer did too. Incest? Autocest? Autogamy? Or is God a wierd insect? New rules for sexual mating enter the picture and implicitly alters the relationship of dynasty to property. By proslytyzing \emph{all}, not only Jews, the nation, the ethnicity dissolves and becomes a sort of corporation: shares in redemption are open to all. The Messiah will redeem \emph{all} debt. The Old Testament is endogamic: the New Testament is exogamic.
+Up to the New Testament, the Hebrews are heterosexual. The Jews \dq{give birth} to the Christians, or that's the way we tell the story. God uses Mary as a child-producing\slash nurturing vehicle (expropriating variant tales out of the past). Here is a departure into androgyny: self-replication, an ancient, sinful theme, for this is what Lucifer did too. Incest? Autocest? Autogamy? Or is God a weird insect? New rules for sexual mating enter the picture and implicitly alters the relationship of dynasty to property. By proselytizing \e{all}, not only Jews, the nation, the ethnicity dissolves and becomes a sort of corporation: shares in redemption are open to all. The Messiah will redeem \e{all} debt. The Old Testament is endogamic: the New Testament is exogamic.
 
-Historiography is expressed as reproduction, human continuity with attendant \enquote{qualities}; genetics as myth. But does the myth enter into the genetics of the present, as many scientists turn back to what was religion and magic in the past? (One may pour enormous resources into a project and use scientific techniques in pursuit of magical aims.) The Christian God's experiment enthralls the moderns and they try to replicate it, using the Holy Spirit to fertilize a laboratory vagina.
+Historiography is expressed as reproduction, human continuity with attendant \dq{qualities}; genetics as myth. But does the myth enter into the genetics of the present, as many scientists turn back to what was religion and magic in the past? (One may pour enormous resources into a project and use scientific techniques in pursuit of magical aims.) The Christian God's experiment enthralls the moderns and they try to replicate it, using the Holy Spirit to fertilize a laboratory vagina.
 
-Genetics and the right to rule, to own property, come for the Romans at a time when both myth and documentation exist side by side inside the dynasty-obsessed empire. The Empire funds the history of its own origins, a vast, dynastic myth called \booktitle{The Aeniad}, which traces the ancestry of the Romans to the Trojans, not the Greeks.
+Genetics and the right to rule, to own property, come for the Romans at a time when both myth and documentation exist side by side inside the dynasty-obsessed empire. The Empire funds the history of its own origins, a vast, dynastic myth called \booktitle{The Æneid}, which traces the ancestry of the Romans to the Trojans, not the Greeks.
 
 For the Christians and the Romans, these tales explain discontinuity while maintaining continuity. The new birth stories insure discontinuity between the Romans and the Greeks. In the same sense, Jesus is not only divine, but a Jew and not a Jew. Aeneas is a Greek, but not a Greek.
 
-At time's end, the Christians promise -- theme and variation -- Resurrection and redemption of all believers (investors). They will bring to material life the dead and dissolved who remain as memories. But how is this Ressurection to be accomplished? Will there be an information-search for the dissolved and scattered, the transformed, decayed human material of the world, and then a sort of reconstruction, a retro-combination? Clearly, the parts, the very atoms, have memory addresses. Or are the \emph{memory} elements to be reinfused into dust, and that dust brought to life, as the Kaballists claimed to be able to do? Or are the memory elements inserted in machines? No matter. The point is that the \emph{thinking} behind these tales descends to us. (Of another transubstantiation myth which has to do with capital itself, more later.)
+At time's end, the Christians promise---theme and variation---Resurrection and redemption of all believers (investors). They will bring to material life the dead and dissolved who remain as memories. But how is this Resurrection to be accomplished? Will there be an information-search for the dissolved and scattered, the transformed, decayed human material of the world, and then a sort of reconstruction, a retro-combination? Clearly, the parts, the very atoms, have memory addresses. Or are the \e{memory} elements to be reinfused into dust, and that dust brought to life, as the Kabbalists claimed to be able to do? Or are the memory elements inserted in machines? No matter. The point is that the \e{thinking} behind these tales descends to us. (Of another transubstantiation myth which has to do with capital itself, more later.)
 
-These political and social materials, this kind of thought, woven back into the whole traditional memory-corpus of dramatic, fictional, religious works, permits us to see that a trans-disciplinary whole operated even in the ancient past, albeit using coded languages. These were preserved, by some, with consequences for the present. On the other hand, what was selectively forgotten and buried? We never get to hear the peasant's side of the story in the Joseph tale. The oppressed have no dynastic history. The concreteness, the mundanity of the past, has been generalized, its particularity eroded, just like the start-up equity put into a corpoation. The information of the past shapes the information processing of the present.
+These political and social materials, this kind of thought, woven back into the whole traditional memory-corpus of dramatic, fictional, religious works, permits us to see that a trans-disciplinary whole operated even in the ancient past, albeit using coded languages. These were preserved, by some, with consequences for the present. On the other hand, what was selectively forgotten and buried? We never get to hear the peasant's side of the story in the Joseph tale. The oppressed have no dynastic history. The concreteness, the mundanity of the past, has been generalized, its particularity eroded, just like the start-up equity put into a corporation. The information of the past shapes the information processing of the present.
 
-The econometric predictions of this present (think of the Russian-American wheat deal of 1972-73, the decision to corner the grain market, extensive planning) uses, with minor variation, the Josephian scenario. In fact, to tell the story again, the disaster Joseph predicted was not a disaster of underproduction, but too many years of overproduction, with attendant deressed prices, requiring either a famine to be manufactured, or at least an \emph{informational} famine created by cornering the market, leading to real hunger. Prices? Is this really in \booktitle{The Bible}? Joseph, after all, as Pharoah's agent, sold the surplus grain on the world market during a world famine. New discourses inserted back into past events disrupt the holiness of the memory time-series, and question the legitimacy of modern thought-buildup, indeed, the legitimacy of all present-based\slash obsessed-with-past, the soft cause-effect linkages built into history.
+The econometric predictions of this present (think of the Russian-American wheat deal of 1972-73, the decision to corner the grain market, extensive planning) uses, with minor variation, the Josephian scenario. In fact, to tell the story again, the disaster Joseph predicted was not a disaster of underproduction, but too many years of overproduction, with attendant depressed prices, requiring either a famine to be manufactured, or at least an \e{informational} famine created by cornering the market, leading to real hunger. Prices? Is this really in \booktitle{The Bible}? Joseph, after all, as Pharaoh's agent, sold the surplus grain on the world market during a world famine. New discourses inserted back into past events disrupt the holiness of the memory time-series, and question the legitimacy of modern thought-buildup, indeed, the legitimacy of all present-based\slash obsessed-with-past, the soft cause-effect linkages built into history.