Part 07: Seldon’s Slogans Series. My Views on Slogan 6. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

Part 07:

 

Seldon’s Slogans Series.

 

 

My Views on Slogan 6.

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, key Encyclopedia Dialectica themes of Seldonian Theory.

 

The 7th text in this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon’s Slogans, #6 –

“Human [Pre-]History [Marx] is the Historical Labor of the Self-Production of Humanity.”

 

 

 

M.D.: My view of this Seldonian slogan is as follows: 

It is not just upon external objects that we humans labor.

 

Our labor is bi-directional, outward, upon the external objects which we work up, but also inward – self-ward – self-reflexively, bending back upon ourselves.

 

Marx noted this in Capital, volume I, at the start of Part III, Chap. VII, “The Labour-Process…”: “Labour is, in the first place, a process in which both man and Nature participate. … .  He opposes himself to Nature as one of her own forces… .  By thus acting on the external world and changing it, he at the same time changes his own nature.  He develops his slumbering powers… .”.   [emphasis added by M.D.].

 

Marx notes this even earlier, in his Grundrisse manuscript: “…The act of reproduction itself changes not only the objective conditions…but the producers change with it, by the emergence of new qualities, by transforming and developing themselves in production, forming new powers and new conceptions, new modes of intercourse, new needs, and new speech.”

[p. 93, Karl Marx: Pre-Capitalist Economic Formations, translated by Jack Cohen; edited and with an Introduction by Eric J. Hobsbawm, Internat’l. Publishers, N.Y., 1969.].

 

Even earlier – as early as his 1844 “Economic-Philosophic” manuscripts – Marx praises Hegel’s vision of humanity: “The outstanding achievement of Hegel’s Phenomenology…is, first, that Hegel grasps the self-creation of humanity as a process …and that he, therefore, grasps the nature of labour, and conceives of objective humanity…as the result of its own labour.” [emphasis added by M.D.; p. 202, Karl Marx: Early Writings, translated and edited by Eric J. Hobsbawm, Internat’l. Publishers, N.Y., 1969.].

 

In that process, Marx also affirms his own vision: that human labor changes, not only the laboring individual, and not even only entire human-social communities of collective labor, but concretely constructs humanity itself – that humanity as a whole is an ‘essence-ial’ object and product of human labor; of human production: is the historical self-construction of the human species, especially in its aspect as ‘the human phenome’, but possibly also influencing co-kinetic, gradual changes in the human genome as well.

 

At the same time, Marx notes that this historical labor, and its prolonged and agonizing ‘‘‘labor-pains’’’, began its work with, and continues, to this very day, its work upon, the ‘‘‘[psycho]historical material’’’ of a pre-human or proto-human prehistory: “...the productive forces developing in the womb of bourgeois society create the material conditions for the solution... .  This social formation [i.e., capitalist society -- M.D.] constitutes, therefore, the closing chapter of the prehistoric stage of human society.” [p. 44, in Marx & Engels: Basic Writings on Politics & Philosophy, edited by Lewis S. Feuer, Anchor Books, Garden City, NY, 1959; emphasis added.].

Thus, it is Seldon’s grasp of these four passages from Marx’s writings, and of other passages like them, that directly led him to Slogan #6.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Regards,

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

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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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Part 06: Seldon’s Slogans Series. My Views on Slogan 5. GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

Part 06:

 

Seldon’s Slogans Series.

 

 

My Views on Slogan 5.

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, key Encyclopedia Dialectica themes of Seldonian Theory.

 

The 5th text in this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon’s Slogans, #5 --

“Ontodynamis models Ontodynamasis.”

 

 

 

M.D.: My views on this Seldonian slogan are the following: 

This slogan is more about the mathematical modeling of dialectical ‘onto-dynamasis’ than about the concrete, physical process of ‘onto-dynamasis’ in itself.

 

‘Onto-dynamasis’ is Seldon’s term for the dynamical character of real ontological change, and, especially, of ontological gain; ontology [net-]expansion.

 

‘Onto-dynamasis’ is about the ways in which a single kind of old – already extant – ontology ‘«aufheben»-ates’ itself, by ‘meta-«monad»-izing its «monads», or about the ways in which multiple, disparate ‘onto-types’ mutually ‘«aufheben»-ate’ and hybridize/dialectically-synthesize, in either case to irrupt new kinds of being, new ‘onto-types’; new ontology.

 

‘Onto-Dynamis’ has its etymology from the ancient Mediterranean civilizations, especially from the ancient ‘‘‘G[r]eeks’’’, and their theory of arithmetic, and, in particular, in the historic culmination of that ‘‘‘psychohistorical’’’ era’s «mentalité» in the famous circa 250 C.E. proto-algebraic treatise by Diophantus of Alexandria, entitled «Arithmetikê».

 

In his introduction to that work, Diophantus wrote as follows: “All numbers are made up of some multitude of units [i.e., of «monads»]….Among them are –

squares, which are formed when any number is multiplied by itself; the number itself is called the side of a square….”

“Now each of these numbers, which have been given abbreviated names, is recognized as an element in  arithmetical science; the square [of the unknown quantity] is called dynamis, and its sign is D with the index U, that is D^U; ….The number which has none of these characteristics, but merely has in it an undetermined [unknown] multitude of units [«monads»], is called arithmos, and its sign is V.  There is also another sign, denoting the invariable element in determinate numbers, the unit [‘«M^onad»’], and its sign is M with the index O, that is M^o.”

[Victor J, Katz, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction, 2^nd ed., Addison-Wesley, NY, 1998, p. 174].    

 

Seldon’s neologism, built on Diophantus’s use of dynamis as above – namely ‘onto-dynamis’ – refers to the “squaring” of the ‘«arché»-ontic category’s symbol, in stage 1, h = 1, of the generic dialectical function that we call ‘The Dyadic Seldon Function’, and, also per that function, the subsequent re-squaring of each new, expanded ontological-possibilities-cumulum of category-symbols that follow from the squaring of each [non-amalgamative] sum of ontological category-symbols that follow from the squaring of that first squaring.

 

In many ancient Greek philosophies, the words «dynamis» and «dynameis» had broader meanings than Diophantus made explicit in his definitions, quoted above.  They meant “powers” in the sense of “dynamic qualities” and of “opposed powers”, also called «pathe», and, later, also potentialities as distinct from actualizations. 

 

In mathematics today, we refer to the exponents of, e.g., variable quantities, as powers, e.g., the “power” 2 as in x², the “power” 3, as in x³, the power 4, as in x⁴, etc.  Diophantus’s usage of «dynamis» appears to be restricted to what we would today call the “power” of two, the “quadratic” power, the “second degree”. 

 

We believe that Diophantus’s use of the term «dynamis» – “power” – as his name for squaring influenced later algebraists’ usage of “power” to refer to exponents other than 2, as well as to the power 2.  

Seldon calls ‘dialectical ontological categories’ and their symbols by the name ‘ontos’, for short, so that ‘onto-dynamis’ describes and names ‘the squarings of ontological category-symbols’.

 

So the historical-dialectical ‘Dyadic Seldon Function’ –

₂ж_t­   =  á a ñ^2t­

– represents the ‘self-iterated’ squaring and re-squaring of the «arché»-onto – the «arché» ontic-category symbol – a, and to the squarings of all of the subsequent ontic category-symbols that arise, from that initial squaring, by their [re-]squaring.

 

Hence “Ontodynamis models Ontodynamasis.”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, including free-of-charge downloads of F.E.D. books and other texts, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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Part 01: Misgivings about 'meta-humanoids' Series. ‘AI Android Robots’: Perfectionism.

 

 

Part 01:

 

Misgivings in anticipation of meta-humanoids Series.

 

 

‘AI Android Robots’:

 

Perfectionism.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., to share, with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, Foundation discourses on key elements of Seldonian Psychohistorical Theory.

 

The 1st text in this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seldon –

 

“The already-‘protoic’ advent of ‘‘‘the meta-human’’’ exhibits three new ontological ‘proto-species’ in its – expected by us and by many others as well – speciation, for which we expect a ‘dialectical speciation’, of genomically self-re-engineered ‘‘‘meta-human[oid]s’’’ as the units of the ‘«arché»-species’, AI android robots as the units of the ‘first contra-species’, and AI cyborgs as the, hybrid, units of the ‘first uni-species’.”

 

 

 

“Many of us may be, quite rightly, concerned that self-aware AI android robots might develop a contempt, a denigratory attitude, toward genomic humans, due to those humans’ higher frequencies of actualized fallibility.”

 

“While we do, indeed, hold that “nobody bats a thousand”, nevertheless, AI androids, while still also fallible in their work[ings], may prove to be far less frequent in their error-rates than are, and will still be, genomic humans.”

 

“Although such robotic disdain might further accelerate the rate of conversions of genomic humans into units of the first, «arché»-species of ‘meta-humanity’ – ‘genomically self-re-engineered meta-human[oid]s’ – it might also lead to even greater than unavoidable bias and discrimination against an at least initial majority of «aufheben»-conserved “classical” genomic humans.  Provisions to mitigate such a mis-development/-miscarriage of social justice should be prepared in advance.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOU are invited to post your comments on this blog-entry below!