The Meaning of “SELF” in the phrase ‘Human-Genomic SELF-re-Engineering’. Part 1. of the Series on META-Humanity’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Meaning

 

of  “SELF”

 

in the phrase

 

‘Human-Genomic  

SELF-re- 

Engineering’.

 

 

Part 1. of the

Series on

META-Humanity’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon –

 

“Our phrase, naming what we predict will be the «arché»-category of ‘the dialectic of meta-humanity’, is:

 ‘The Self-Re-Engineering of the Human Genome’.”

 

“But why ‘SELF’-Re-Engineering?”

 

“What is the meaning of the prescript epithet “Self” in the context of our predicted ‘Re-Engineering of the Human Genome’?”

 

“Well, we mean, quite literally, albeit paradoxically, that the ‘‘‘re-engineering’’’ that we expect will be ‘‘‘caused’’’ by ‘‘‘action’’’ of the human genome itself.”

 

“But how can this possibly be so?”

 

“We mean that the human genome, formed in the Darwinian process, and, in its action, mediated through the ‘human phenome’ of the developing cultural, including technological, capabilities of genomic humanity, also made possible by the learning capabilities born in the human genome, i.e., which that genome “created”, or made likely, is, albeit, yes, ‘mediatedly’, re-engineering itself.”

 

“That genome, as an unconscious agency, but a causal agent nonetheless, is re-engineering itself, through the needs and desires that the Darwinian process built into humanity, with humanity predicted to act to rid itself of its ‘Darwinian Defects’.”

 

“In that same process, that special Darwinian genome has made possible a ‘Meta-Darwinian, trans-genomic Process’, now that practical knowledge [‘sapience’] has become so crucial to expanded human-social reproduction, and thus to the Darwinian fitness, or sustained reproduction-rate, of the genomic human species.”

 

“This self-re-engineering of the human genome is now on the verge of advancing to the ‘Meta-Darwinian Super-Fitness’ of all three ‘irruptant’ species of a ‘Meta-Humanity’ – namely, ‘reengineered-genome meta-humans’, ‘AI android robot meta-humans’, and their dialectical-categorial synthesis, ‘AI cyborg meta-humans’ – spreading its burgeoning population(s) into our Solar System, and beyond.”

 

“The ‘Darwinian Defects’ of the genomic human species, per our ‘immanent critique of the human body’, include the fact that the Darwinian-genomic protections of individual human health and longevity largely expire after the average age of offspring – the average age of human biological reproduction – which is the age by which the parents’ genes, carrying all of their ‘Darwinian Defects’, have passed on into the human gene pool, sustainedly-so if their offspring survive to themselves reproduce.”

 

“The male parent could die the day after conception; the female parent could die the moment after giving live birth, and their ‘Darwinianly-Defective’ genes would have already passed into the next human-genomic generation, leaving those health and longevity protections unadvanced; still expiring so early.  Some partial reprieve from this fate is induced by the enhanced likelihood of offspring survival, prosperity, and reproductive fecundity, if their grandparents survive at least into the early years of life of those offspring.”

 

“The human genome is not a conscious, volitional eventity, but it is a causal eventity.  As such, it exhibits agency, as a ‘pre-[human-]subject’, or ‘proto-subject’: not will-enabled agency, but causal agency nonetheless.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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‘Meta-SociaLity’: Not Limited to the Human Species.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Meta-SociaLity’:

 

Not

 

Limited

 

to the

 

Human

Species.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

  

We do not classify Human societies, ontologically, as inhering in the same ontological category as “animaL societies”, in our dialectical ‘meta-model’ of the ‘«aufheben»-ating’, ‘meta-«monad»-izing’, self-involuting ‘meta-evolution’ of our cosmos: ‘The Dialectic of Nature’.

 

We hold, instead, that there is a dialectical relation, i.e., an «aufheben» relation, between animal “mere societies”, and human ‘meta-societies’, as a [self-]extension – the ultimate known-to-us [self-]extension, so far – of the progression of «aufheben» ‘meta-«monad»-izations’ that constitute the known ‘Dialectic of Nature’, and the ontological ‘self-meta-evolution’ of Nature, to-date.

 

That is, we see human societies, as ‘societies of societies’; as ‘societies squared’.

 

In terms of our _NQ ‘categorial-dialectical ideography’ 

model of ‘The Dialectic of Nature’, we represent this qualitative, ontological distinction between animal and human societies via the following ‘categorial arithmetiques/algebraics’ –

animaL societies²⁰ =  animaL societies¹   =   animaL societies ®

animaL societies²¹ = animaL societies² =  

animaL societies¹ <+> D animaL societies¹ |-º

animaL societies¹ <+> meta-[animal-]societies¹

– and we often abbreviate ‘meta-societies’ as just ‘Human-societies’, after the most ‘meta-Darwinianly successful’ known species of ‘meta-society’, in terms of ‘meta-Darwinian fitness’.

 

Via the ‘ideogramical language’ of the _NQ categorial-dialectical short-hand, the above expressions become –

 

L²⁰ =  L¹ ® L²¹ =  L²  =  L¹ ~<+>~ DL¹  |-º  L¹ ~<+>~ H¹  

=  L ~<+>~ H

 

– with ‘~<+>~’ explicitizing the ‘oppositional addition’ of qualitatively-different, ontologically-different categories, such that the right-more category-symbol, here H, represents a multi-determination ‘determinate negation’ of the left-more category-symbol, here L.

 

We measure ‘meta-Darwinian fitness’ as the ‘sustained higher and accelerating self-reproductive rate’ of human societies, in the sense of their ‘socio-mass’ reproduction-rate, or ‘meta-social onto-mass’ reproduction-rate, which combines the socio-mass reproductive rate of human individuals with that of human artifacts, including not only tools and social infrastructures, etc., but also domesticated plant and animal biomass, internalized into each human ‘meta-society’ unit.

 

That is, the above is how we measure ‘the societal self-re-productive self-force’ of the human species; the human-social ‘self-reproductive self-force of humanity’ [cf. Marx: “social forces of production”].

 

Each unit of human-society, as a ‘meta-society’ unit, is made up out of a heterogeneous multiplicity of animal society units, led by human, former animal-society units, made such, made former by the consequences of their creation of ‘meta-society’ units. 

 

A ‘meta-society’ is an «aufheben» ‘self-meta-unit-ization’ of a heterogeneous multiplicity of former mere animal society units.  For human meta-societies, this began, in the era called the Paleolithic, with the human domestication of wolves into dogs, incorporating wolf social animal units into a ‘meta-social’ mutualism with human, thereby former animal society units.  Later, in and defining the Neolithic era, more animal society units were incorporated into the, burgeoning, human ‘meta-society meta-units’, including reindeer, horses, goats, pigs, chickens, cattle and even elephants, with varying degrees of success, but also incorporating and domesticating, by human labor, what we call ‘social plants’, in the world-historic breakthrough into agricultural technology, which, at length, enabled the irruption of the ancient multi-city-state civilizations, and beyond.

 

However, in fact, human-societies, although the most-prominent known ‘meta-societies’ on Earth, are not the only species of ‘meta-society’ units known on Earth.  In fact, there are quite a few other Terran ‘meta-society’ units in existence, most little-known, and none exhibiting the vast ‘meta-socio-mass’ reproduction-rate acceleration that human-social ‘meta-socio-mass’ has exhibited and achieved.

 

To name one non-human ‘meta-society’ units-kind, consider ants and aphids. 

 

It is true that, among the many social-animal, insect-species of aphids, there are many aphid-society units which live apart from any ‘meta-socialization’ with ant-society units.

 

However, there are aphid species which are “farmed” by ants.  The ants enhance aphid reproduction rates by protecting them from predators and from other hazards.  The ants benefit, reproductively, from such aphids, by gathering and consuming the “honeydew” that “their” aphids release, with the ants “dairying” or “milking” the amino-acids-rich honeydew from “their” aphids by rubbing the aphids with their ant antenna.

 

Some “farming ants” even temporarily shelter their aphids’ eggs in their ant-hives during the winters, returning, e.g., in the springs, carrying the, since-hatched, aphids back to the plants upon which the aphids feed.

 

There are other, less-well-known, cases of Terran ‘meta-societies’, such as the coral/zooxanthellae-micro-organisms ‘meta-social’ association, with the units of the zooxanthellae making the resulting coral/- zooxanthellae ‘meta-society’ units photosynthetic.

But this is a rather anomalous claim of a ‘meta-society’, in that the zooxanthellae are plant-like [photosynthetic], and are not ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’, put are mere, albeit ‘‘‘social’’’, eukaryotic cell units, mere, ‘‘uni-cellular’’, ‘meta-prokaryotic biota’.

A ‘meta-society’ unit proper unites social, ‘multi-eukaryotic-cellular meta-biota’ units into a single ‘meta-social meta-unit’.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, and to read and/or download, free of charge, PDFs and/or JPGs of Foundation books, other texts, and images, please see:

www.dialectics.info

 

and

 

https://independent.academia.edu/KarlSeldon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see –

 

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¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Why the “Collision” that Marx Describes between Capitalist Production and the Productive Forces is a ‘SELF-Collision’ ['internal Collision'].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Why the

 

“Collision” that

 

 

Marx Describes

 

between

 

Capitalist Production

 

and

 

the Productive Forces

 

is a

 

‘SELF-Collision’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

Marx wrote the following in the section, of the third volume of Capital, on “The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall”*:

 

“…capitalist production is by no means an absolute form for the development of the productive forces and for the creation of wealth, but rather…at a certain point it comes into collision with this development.”

 

The collision that Marx describes in the passage above is, we wish to emphasize, a self-collision [or ‘internal collision’].

 

This is so, because the capital social relation of production’s system itself, its “capitalist mode of production” – what we call its ‘mode of [human-societal self-re-]production’ – in its core motive, the “profit motive”, drives it, via “the competition of capitals”, to internally grow/develop the social forces of [human-societal self-re-]production’, in pursuit of profit-advantages via the expansion of “relative surplus-value”.

 

Marx also calls this “collision” a [self- or internal or immanent] “contradiction”, and describes how the capitalist system “…moves thus in a contradiction”.

 

We would prefer – so as to avoid analogizing dialectical, societal ‘self-dualities’ to propositional mutual negations – an ‘intra-contra-kinesis’, one that is immanent to, i.e., inherent in, the [industrial-] capital/wage-labor social relation of production, as predominant social relation of production.

 

Furthermore, we expect that this ‘intra-contra-kinesis’ can be effectively «aufheben»-contained/constrained and resolved within a new and higher predominant ‘social relation of societal self-re- production’, namely that of ‘Generalized Equity’, or of ‘Equitist Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’, as outlined below.

 

 

 

*[See Capital.  A Critique of Political Economy, Book III, Part III, The Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, pp. 263-264 in the 1967 New World paperback edition].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, and to read and/or download, free of charge, PDFs and/or JPGs of Foundation books, other texts, and images, please see:

 

www.dialectics.info

 

and

 

https://independent.academia.edu/KarlSeldon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights – specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see:

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

Voting Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.];

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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