The
absence of popular activity regarding the preservation of individual DNA
continues to pose questions.
As any Resistance
shows there must partly be some justification for an unnecessary blindness.
I investigated a partner of CYBEK; he answered that there were no markets
for memory, and he explained that when he has problems regarding his memories,
he goes gambling. It was funny enough to be indicative. Yet I want to mention
first a general observation.
The
Classical Culture as a mean for integral memory
a) The classical circumstance
Somebody else
made me notice also, that until our present time, people used to preserve
their DNA and their memories quite automatically, as a consequence of the
familial rules. Most of the reproduced genome was more or less trackable
for a short time - and even some genes
could benefit from
a long shot
-
while the social history persisted more or less according to the official
deeds of the individual, and sometimes in a sound and nearly indestructible
manner through the process of the Unconscious. These biological and symbolic
ways would combine, more or less adequately, for establishing the base of
memory - not only a record, but a living memory that one can call integral
(i.e. the link between genes and names)
. Lately, Psychoanalysis
with Lacan analysing E.A.Poe's The Purloined Letter, was able to guaranty
the irresistible link which brings a Letter back to its address.
In this
circumstance, it would seem that the Art of Memory is efficiently sustained
along the passing time of civilization; and that it may even show a remarkable
aptitude for selectivity and rigor in the combination image/place
(significand/gene) which would allow this Art to discard overcharges of data.
This may be a very legitimate reason for keeping this long running cultural
order - while staying suspicious and reserved in regard to new systems of
historisation.
b) The modern cause
Perhaps
unfortunateley for the courageous keepers of the past, there may be however,
a sharp necessity for revisiting the sufficiency of the old order. If we
summarize in a word: digitization, the industry which has made Cybernetics
in its binary form (base digits 0,1), and allowed the first algorithms for
a description of the logic of Psyche (Lacan
),
we gain a simple and practical concept for a vast field gathering Ecology,
sociology, Artificial Intellignece, and even Genetics. With this concept
we can conceive that a special regime, or pace of writing, has been
implemented lately on our planet; and we realize eventually that this recent
representation process overpasses the classical path of memorization.
Two page updates
have been announced
&
, where one can see how digitization debases, at first, the classical
memory order of our history. Such a threat with devitalization is well understood
by the many opponents of what they call the incoming Brave New World - if
not the Orwellian vision of the virtual entities that Artificial Intelligence
will animate. Yet their fear may be softened when they see that the 'ruin'
which
is caused by a first degree analysis (Individual psychology and Cybernetics),
may be restored when Mass psychology and Artificial Intelligence combine
with the regenerated Art of Memory
(PLAN's project).
This analysis
of modernity dismisses the option of the past. The resistance to popularization
of Genetics, may have good reason - yet only to a certain extent. A close
look at the digitization process shows why it imposes a survival measure
with the general application of the Art of Memory - e.g., the principle which
applies in the preservation of DNA and Will, together.
This analysis
of the Resistance gave an opportunity for an investigation of Artificial
Intelligence, which has opened to an insight that I have been seeking for
a long time. Even prior to 1985 when I established
PLAN, I assigned myself to the
understanding of what is money. The nature of money is veiled by the
obviousness which accompanies pleasure; one can understand that its mystery
has just been designated by the early Marxist theory, which seems to have
crashed lately, without elucidation. At this point my attempt, in light of
the lack of response, may seem more comical than anything else - and so,
it answers well to the joke of the gambler I mentioned above. This is to
say how hypothetical is the step I suggest, as following:
The
meaning of money in regards to memory
Considering
the synthetical schema
where Freud's Model of the Crowd finds its signification in the world he
apprehended (Nature where he wrote 'x' meaning the unknown of the
'exterior'
-
and Artificial Intelligence, where he wrote ' I ', meaning the Ideal,
whose decline his psychoanalysis detected), there may be a place for representing
what is money.
If money is
neither a Significand, nor a Code, it may take place for a
seriation of the Ideal. In this way, as well as the Code supports the Being
in regard to the Ideal
, the numerization of the Value would support the Artificial Intelligence
in regard to the environment
.Yet,
this simple description may encounter at first a critic: how a simple
numerization could operate the sophisticated reflexive trigger of seriality
as it appears with a Code? An answer is found in the fact that
money may never exist in another system but as a currency.
A 'money' would never stand by itself; it would always be factored in regard
to another money. This may not have been emphasized by K.Marx, yet, for this
reason Money would have a Code potential that would authorize it as the substrata
for an Artificial Intelligence which interfaces with an Ecosystem..
Dr. William THEAUX, NYC 98/05/03 13:09:12
About Akhnaton-Moses-Oedipus :
As a result of a contact with a group of people working on Velikovsky's theory,
a recent page has linked to akhnaton.net:
A reading of Oedipus
and Akhnaton by R.Fritzius,
A more general site on history of ecology may be found at:
AEON which is an interesting
group/publication about Evolution.
© CYBEK of New York, 1999.