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January 31, 2005
Wisdom of the Rocks
It also follows from a strict adhesion to parallelism - and in this, Spinoza had perhaps anticipated that mind, or consciousness, would be the last bastion of transcendence and resistance to secular machinisation - that even rocks have ideas. The name of idea, in fact, should be subject to a deflation that uses it as the name for extremely elementary operations, leaving ideas of ideas (of....) as the reflexive ideas we recognize as such. The mind of a rock, a rock's ideas, consist of the abstract, differential 'states' of its matter (abstract matter considered as information, as opposed to (but in reciprocal presupposition with) concrete ideas considered as physical entities (concepts as vibrations)) - As Manuel de Landa once said (erstwhile VF attendees will know how to do the accent) 'the wisdom of the rocks'.
Posted by robin at January 31, 2005 01:24 PM