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@@ -1,29 +1,29 @@ \chap\nl -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. +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. \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 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. +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, 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 \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\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. +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 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\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. +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.\fnote{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 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. +When order\slash universality\slash oneness fall 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 \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. +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, it 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, \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 \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. +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 \e{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 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. +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.) @@ -1,19 +1,19 @@ \chap\nl -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. +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. -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. +If all is fundamentally the same, it follows that a database in one language should have the power to talk to databases 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 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\fnote{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. +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\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 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? +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\ld\ investible end-products and investors screaming for their dividends, trying to hurry time up? Will it cost the world's savings to transform humans\ld\ and will we be left with one creature at the end? 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. @@ -1,41 +1,41 @@ \chap\nl -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. +So we begin again, from another angle, using one of the most highly computerized of modern entities: the \e{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 paraphernalia and the high-speed, distance-insensitive, time-devouring equipment which presages a vast political change. +We live in a time when corporate operations have sped 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\ld\ 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---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.) +Corporations are---at least legally, and metaphorically---separate entities. At the same time, they are not. They are linked into para\slash meta\slash supra\slash 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 \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? +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.\fnote{Law too is being placed in data banks, 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. +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.\fnote{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 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. +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\ld\ all while living in exotic, anaerobic climes. 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\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. +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 \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. +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\slash give life to\slash 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 metagenetic 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. +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 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}. +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\ld\ 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 \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. +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\ld\ the lives as they live\ld\ 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\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 \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. +And if we are talking about fictions, try to think of what the Œdipus Complex describes without the word \dq{Œdipus} 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 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 wondrous 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\ld\ \e{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\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. +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. Its individuals are just as caught up in a sort of fate as poor Œdipus (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\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. +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 here we have an organism composed of living things, dead things, and the remembrances of things dead and past, no less phantasmagoric than those ancient sphinxes, chimeras, minotaurs and hydras. @@ -2,38 +2,38 @@ 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 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}. +All countries\slash cultures\slash 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 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 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. Œdipus, 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. +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 \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. +Genes, contaminated by \e{deeds} (acquired characteristics, or fate?), the inadvertent sin of Œdipus 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.\fnote{That the play is also Athenian propaganda against Thebes and Delphi is another story in itself.} If the thought of the pre-Socratics\slash Socrates\slash Plato\slash 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. +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. \booktitle{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\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. +\booktitle{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}). \booktitle{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 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. +Implicit in the \booktitle{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 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. +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 US (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 \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. +Up to the \booktitle{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 alter 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. \booktitle{The Old Testament} is endogamic; the \booktitle{New Testament} is exogamic. -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. +Historiography is expressed as reproduction, human continuity with attendant \dq{qualities}; genetics as myth\ld\ 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 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. +For the Christians and the Romans, these tales explain discontinuity while maintaining continuity. The new birth stories ensure discontinuity between the Romans and the Greeks. In the same sense, Jesus is not only divine, but a Jew and not a Jew. Æneas 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 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.) +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 corporation. 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, permit us to see that a trans-disciplinary whole operated even in the ancient past\ld\ 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 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. +The econometric predictions of this present\fnote{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 \e{over}production, 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.
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