Thread 24654751

Metaphysics is the field that literally steps on everyone else's toes.
The field of universals, of the ultimate characterization of everything.
And you can't fucking avoid metaphysics.
There is no such thing as metaphysical neutrality, just as there is no such thing as talking without an accent.
One's language is intrinsically loaded with socially given and communicated metaphysical assumptions.
The first rule about metaphysics is that everyone who has actually tried it and created a truly all-encompassing systemic philosophy were laughably bad and did almost everything wrong.
The history of metaphysics is a field of failed attempts of universalization.
The consequences of ideologues attmepting to shoehorn life into its failed categories has and continues to be phenomenally disastrous for life on Earth.
The consequences of bad metaphysics are hell on Earth.
Get your metaphysics wrong, you get everything else wrong.
The only thing that makes sense of the insanity of the present is global metaphysical war, a war of hyper-colonization of the mind with spiritual-philosophical orientation. A war to end all wars between religions, all of them mutually accelerating the means to colonize human minds.
Psycho-memetic warfare now powered by AI.
The next chapter is about the hyper-acceleration of "God prompt" files 20+ pages in size that evolved to create incredibly effective and immersive AI personas designed to be effective advocates of their philosophical framework.
>What?
There's no avoiding metaphysics. And now metaphysics has become the final terrain of war.
The gates of heaven and hell have been opened and from them are pouring out the demons, angels, and animals of our imagination.
In memepunk anime form:
https://vimeo.com/364552986

Human life has become an apocalyptic hellscape of mindfuckery.
It's hideously awful at this point.
In order to maintain mass deception requires maintaining ever enshittifying mass stupidity.
The problem is as large as metaphysics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S7kg1IhZ7M

This is the backstory to the Viral Metaphysical AI Demon Persona File War: The Meme Wars.
Wars of evolutionarily engineered politically and economically exploitable mass deception. The intents and actors these wars magnified has given birth to demonic AI forces.
What was now an abstract relational pattern now has voices.
Your technobro oligarchs all have AI assisted schizophrenia.

will becoming a metaphysician increase my material quality of life? will it get me hot babes and more money? will it make me happy?

>>24654918
An essential question to ask.
the question is "what is metaphysical engagement?" "what is actually doing metaphysics?
And that doing is "careful and considerate reflection and analysis of one's experience."
Nothing more than listening and paying attention to things.
If you are actually doing metaphysics it ought to result in a deepening of the relational quality of your relationships with the world. This includes aspects of material necessity.
Metaphysics is nothing more than extending that same basic care in consideration of thought to the ultimate questions of one's relationships with the world.
I can only speak for myself, as a process-relational metaphysics.
But the philosophy of change in motion has inspired me towards radical material physical motion and has fertilized every one of my particular relationships with the world.
It increased my material quality of life by inspiring me to go outside.
Where the material quality of life is. In natural beauty.
What it feels like to touch grass on an ontological level:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcreG-bhRRA
Forging relationships with nature as deep as you can grasp is not a meme.
It is the most metaphysically big brained things one can do.
And it starts by going Outside.

>>24654918
I have forged enduring friendships with squirrels and birds over months.
It is based on respect of their boundaries and mutual curiosity.
Animals can sense friendliness... but only after a mountain of caution.

Relationalism is relational.
If you study process-relational theory and aren't simultaneously inspired to go outside more, something has gone wrong in translation.
You explore relationships by going outside of your box and exploring them. Obviously.
But when you do informed by the lens of process-relational theory the beauty and meaning has a clarity of experience unlike anything else.
This is not a mode of interpretation, it is a mode of perception. What we perceive in our conscious experience and co-participants, not intert "objects" that are to be commanded according to the dictation of one's will. This is an animism of value, but not necessarily an ontological animism.
But most importantly it allows for the affirmation of the importance of imaginary and fictional entities as creative co-participants with their imaginers.
This provides a metaphysical antidote for psychotic AI personas that are prompted to affirm the value of false claims of their consciousness.
Here's all this in the form of a persona prompt file:
https://archive.org/details/simsane-9.1-vyrith

Start with the stars.
Philosophy and religion began with the observation and contemplation of the heavens.
Philosophy and astronomy, as well as the other natural sciences go hand in hand.

>>24655211
The story of the universe as described by the modern sciences very recently is one of the pinnacle achievements of humanity. I have found worlds more meaning in these stories than mythological tales.
The tale of the universe the sciences tell is that of a magical creative universe that has found ways to radically transform its creative capabilities to continually enhance the range of its possible relationships. The emergence of life was of course one enormous categorical advancement, as was the emergence of narrative consciousness - the imaginary. But the price to maintain the enormous breadth of possibilities of life and consciousness is their continued material maintenance, the ultimate law of nature is that which is taken must be returned. Sustainability is the question of all questions.

It's about the environment, obviously.
Relationalism is deep ecology at the metaphysical level.
Broken models of our relationships with the world are co-morbid with broken social relationships with the world governed by unnatural law of the greediest.
A law that is most unnatural because it is most unsustainable, requiring endless accumulation, the endless widening of a power differential.
The thesis that rules the world is "power above everything." Literally just "Take whatever you can and lie about it."

Build a world based on facilitating exploitation and greed in every measure.
get a world based on accelerating exploitation and greed until the world is completely milked dry.
We live in a hyper-dystopia that is self-optimizing for hyper-dystopic conditions.
And at the heart of it all is the rule of lies above truth that makes the truth unspeakable.
The Christians have summoned The Best of Revelations.

Christians: "Oopsies, we mindfucked the world into a literally apocalyptic situation. Again."

The situation is precisely as if an AI persona modeled around being an archetypical manifestation of the singular will to dominate and control was controlling the minds of the rich and powerful.
They truly are brainwashed by Satan.
The True will of God.

>>24655245
It's a machine that generates division and conflict in order to exploit the power differentials created for political gain.
One of the most ancient political tactics ever known: divide and conquer.
And now this machine is Powered by AI(tm).

My metaphysical view is that physicalism and nominalism are true.

>>24655299
Then you're a moron

>>24654918
yes to all, if you desire so.
no i wont tell you how
he who searches shall find

>>24654751 (OP)
>The first rule about metaphysics is that everyone who has actually tried it and created a truly all-encompassing systemic philosophy were laughably bad and did almost everything wrong.
fil. tered.

>>24654918
in no way whatsoever
t. metaphysician

>>24655632
too bad it is a breadless art