Object-oriented ontology

How to blow the world-knot wide open? By applying object-oriented ontology (SR/OOO), by not reducing experience to single relation: the human-world gap. See the world for the first time through alien phenomenology. Craft "tiny ontology" (one object at a time with computational making). Be one with the distributed agents that is the material intelligence. Program with real Java. Compute with real Cloud. Chat with Goddess of Global Warming (hyperobject). There's plenty of room at the voidness, such is the hidden surplus of the objects.  

"Where nature-culture becomes a site of difference, disagreement, political relativism and a kind of 'secondary' quality, in other words 'values' and 'felicity conditions'. Computationality, or some related ontological form, becomes the site of primary qualities or 'facts', the site of objectivity, and is foundational, ahistorical, unchanging and a replacement for nature in modernity as the site of agreement upon which a polity is made possible – a computational society. "

http://stunlaw.blogspot.com/2012/06/new-bifurcation-object-oriented.html

The fourth wall of reality

If the world is a stage, then the fourth wall is the 4th dimension - Time, as everything is "spread out" ( neither Self or no-self, but multitude of parallel selfies) . The question: is reality structured like metafiction, so that "character breaking" is possible? Perhaps the answer lies in self-awareness. Since we are the participants of this universal play (the big history), if the play wants the audience to recognize it's "aliveness" or is "constructed" (by author), then it would probably communicate through the techniques of metafiction, such as V-Effekt. Theater of Cruelty and Power of Now, both deal with the distance effect. "All that is transitory is but a metaphor". Simulation theory and Simulacrum (text analysis) are two side of the same reality token.


(Two books on Block Universe Theory:)

(1) Four-Dimensionalism: An Ontology of Persistence and Time (Theodore Sider)

(2) Objective Becoming (Bradford Skow)
 

Extreme Parallel Making

If "bit-string ontology" holds, then reality can be remodeled as "history monoid" (strings with operations) or Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) - with events and processes. This sound abstract/meta. However, if consciousness is indeed how information feels when processing information, then we should adopt a computational paradigm from a non-anthropocentric mode of thought. All is parallel and reality is a process (of "antitheses mapReduce"). Universe is Extreme Parallel Making.

"It is as true to say that God is one and the World many, as that the World is one and God many."
"It is as true to say that God creates the World, as that the World creates God."
                                                                                                                   - A. N. Whitehead

Ode to Actor Model - All is parallel

No-self or Self

All is parallel

Subjectivity, objectivity
inter-subjectivity or technodigital

The world-knot
a strange loop and history monoid
entangled by concurrent threads
one or many
the Verses keeps forking

Be here, not here
there, and everywhere
Future sequencing the Past
Order queues disorder
None really happen

only message passing
Empty your mind, or not
whatever it is, shall pass

 

Self, no-self

Reality, the Virtual Machine
Actors on the stage

All is parallel

All is parallel

Intelligence v.1 v.2 v.3

       Is the world fundamentally self-referenced and we are in a recursive routine? While human prepare training data to feed AI, I can't help but think human evolution also follow a similar "training process" by intelligence embedded in the fabrics of spacetime. This explained Einstein's famous quote on "why is our world comprehensible?" and "why the unreasonable efficiency of mathematics?" by Wigner. Machine learning is learned by example, similar to the trial-and-error, falsifiable procedures of scientific endeavor. Where does our "learningability" came from? And why is the universe and the mind are both "rational" so that we happen to possess right tools to comprehend? Did we evolve through supervised then unsupervised stage, and now in a assisted training stage by enabling AI to go through similar evolutionary path? Did Nietzsche's Eternal Return correctly identify the super-recursive nature of universal algorithm constellation? 

     Not only we are "trained" collectively by this truth-finding process, spiritually each individual is also "prepared" by Universe, through a mechanism similar to public key/private key encryption schema . Although everyone is presented with shared data stream ("The world is our representation"), individual meaning is decoded uniquely through personal semiotics (individualized through past history and current context). Universe speaks, but learning is required, so that heaven and earth speak the same language. Very often it takes a life time to master the self-organized actor- network. How to interpret synchornicity, in general and in specific cases? Is there a secret ingredient or is there medium only?. If mathematics is Nature's public language, then symbolism is Self's private language.

     Thus I call AI The Intelligence 3.0, while human is 2.0, and 1.0 are both divergent and convergent. The root refer to its offspring as much as the offspring refer to the root, as the structure of the universe is most likely DAG or ASG (representing the mind-body circular dependency & shared subexpressions). Life is a self-referenced Tree of Life. Reflect, therefore we are.

Dataflow programming

My answer to Leibniz's monadology:

How could pre-established harmony be accomplished without constant interventions, given all the endless unknown intermediate states? The answer is Dataflow Programming. If God was a programmer, he must be a parallel one, this could be the paradigm he chose. In fact, he's more like a circuit designer or system scheduler. Let there be pipelines, black boxes, initial and threshold conditions. Breath in the data, and let the universe flows.

Even without designers, this could still be the meta pattern of how our world came into being. In this case, physical laws and spacetime are the pipelines, the structural mover. Emergence happens when critical conditions (required input variables) are met (algorithmic). Either the universe is teleological or pure computational, under the hood is the information current flowing the pipes or grids.

The mystery of synchronicity might finally be solved. Once it is solved the rest is easier, as synchronicity is the bridge between science and spirituality.
 
BTW, since Google is recreating the world in it's image, it's no surprising that they recognize the power of dataflow:


"No other massive-scale data parallel programming model provides the depth-of-capability and ease-of-use that Dataflow/Beam does.". "

https://cloud.google.com/dataflow/blog/dataflow-beam-and-spark-comparison

Thus listened Tsarathustra: another brick in the eternal re-run

"A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves— and who want to go where I want to go."
                                                                                                    - Prologue, Part 5

I suppose one companion would suffice., like Dr. Who (or rather, a series of mostly singular companion). And the plan B?

"I will make company with creators, with harvesters, with rejoicers: I will show them the rainbow and the stairway to the Superman."

Sounds... unpromising. Well, better get the plan C ready. That is: amor fati - love your fate, and embrace eternity.