Never mind that we frequent this place together, is it not true that these electrons meet in a prearranged way so as to give the appearance of words, in English, a feast, a table at which you may dine or not? (Such freedom!) But if there is anything happening at all, if the web is anything, it is a vast and mostly empty shared, imagined space. The most striking thing about which is the speed and ease with which millions of minds take it up. I found the most beautiful quote from Rudy Rucker

… hidden in us and in connected computer space there is something so large, so astounding, and so pregnant with the darkness of infinite space

Well ‘scuse me while I kick the sky. On the other hand, As within, so without. I suppose it’s not so surprising that that the consciousness of this creature we are should be built upon the model of the universe in which we live.

The beauty of ideas, however, is the way a new one comes along and names something more closely, in a way we hadn’t thought of, and the physical pleasure in the mind is to more like orgasm than anything else. That little trill in the brain.

Which suggests an unending hunger of the mind, in our species, equal to that of sex. Technically, better, since we can’t all of us be fucking at will, now, can we. There’s that problem of the Other.

Tags: cosmology, sex, the mind, the other

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