Part 02: Misgivings about 'meta-humanoids' Series. ¿‘A New Antagonism between Humanity and Meta-Humanity’? GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

Part 02:

 

Misgivings about ‘meta-humanoids’ Series.

 

 

¿‘A New

Antagonism

between

Humanity

and

Meta-Humanity’?

 

       GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

I want to be the one to present this issue to you, which is the concern to be addressed by the second part of this series.

 

We of F.E.D. foresee, and predict, a future emergenc[e][y] which is already extant in ‘protoic’ form: the irruption, from out of the densest and most developed concentrations of the human genome/phenome, of a new ‘cosmo-ontology’, as a new, dialectical speciation beyond the human species.  This irruption is not imminent, but it is important to make preparations, now, to help mitigate the future ‘psychohistorical crisis’ that this irruption, as we ‘pre-construct’ it, will entail.

 

We ‘pre-construct’, symbolically, that this dialectical speciation of a, local, ‘meta-humanity’, born out of humanity here on planet Earth, will consist in three, dialectically interconnected new species of the ‘meta-human’ –

(1) an «arché»-species of genomically self-re-engineered ‘meta-humans’, in a genome re-engineering mediated via the advanced technologies of the human phenome;

(2) a first ‘contra-species’ of AI android robots;

(3) a first ‘uni-species’ of AI cyborgs, combining genomically re-engineered human features and parts, with AI robot features and parts.

 

We further expect that all three species will exhibit individual life-spans much extended with respect to also-extended genomic human individual life-spans.

 

We expect that species (1) and (3) will, along with incorporating photosynthetic capabilities – e.g., in the form of chloroplasts in the sub-cutaneous lymph flow – also incorporate the in-body production of phyto-chemicals and plant-sourced micro-nutrients which, ingested today, e.g., in pill form, are already extending the life-spans of genomic humans, along with plant-based diets.

We expect that these genomic alterations will also include gene-level resistance to space radiation, and to the wasting of muscle mass and other physiological conditions due to extended periods of weightlessness.

 

Thus, we expect that species (1) and (3) will – (a.) generate some of their carbohydrate and protein food elements in-body, by means of their internalized photosynthetic metabolism; (b.) generate some Oxygen, utilizing some of the Carbon Dioxide generated by their cellular respiration to feed back into their sub-cutaneous photosynthetic systems, and utilizing some of the Oxygen generated by that photosynthetic system to power their cellular respiration as well; (c.) be able to accomplish this in-body photosynthesis simply via sunlight photons – or even via other stars’ starlight photons – falling upon the dermis.

 

For this reason, we expect that space travel, and trans-Earth settlements in our Solar System, e.g., on the moon, Mars, and elsewhere, will be populated more by ‘meta-humans’ of species (1) and (2) and (3), than by genomic humans – the costs and risks of dispatching genomic humans into outer space being substantially higher than those of sending ‘meta-humans’.

 

Along with the other differences already potentiating conflict between genomic humans and ‘meta-humans’ – including differences in bodily appearance, health, longevity, sensory capabilities, intelligence, etc. – this difference may precipitate a new and deeper antithesis.

 

And this, without even addressing the – oft envisioned in science fiction now for many decades – involvement of ‘meta-human’ species (2), may have potentially devastating consequences for our children’s and grand children’s futures – and even for our own.

 

This division, unlike the class divisions plaguing pre-historic human societies – including capitalist societies – does not look to be rooted in the social relations of human-societal self-re-production, in the way that class divisions were.  But this new, inter-species divide could become definitive and destructive for future, ‘post-pre-historic’ society.

 

Those whose self-identities reside, at least in part, in the future of humanity, should, if they have not already, take note of this future ‘meta-evolutionary’ hazard, and begin thinking about ways to mitigate it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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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¿Second Ascendence? GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

¿Second Ascendence?

 

 

GLOBAL STRATEGIC HYPOTHESES.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

From a Marxian perspective, what the newly-ascendant Trump Faction of the U.S. capitalist ruling class is up to, looks like an attempt to re-run the circa 1800 to circa 1900 ‘ascendence phase’ of the capitalist system, the “One Hundred Years’ Peace”, by fostering a re-industrialization – a second industrial revolution in the U.S.A.

 

Such a ‘re-industrial revolution’ would, the Trump Faction hopes, we infer, accelerate the production of both capital-wealth and real wealth, resurrect, on steroids, the “Hundred Years’ Peace rising capitalist social prosperity, and raise the wages and the standard of living of the U.S. Majority Class, and keep that class electing Trump Faction leaders to lead State and Federal governments, and also have at least some ascendence-phase-like spin-offs to the rest of the world – enough at least to avert a Third World War.

 

¿But to what extent is such an achievement feasible?

 

¿How could the Trump Faction avert the consequences of the Marxian “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall”, driven by accelerating pre-amortization ‘‘‘techno-depreciation’’’ of core industrial fixed capital plant and equipment assets?

Such ‘techno-obsolescence’ – competitive obsolescence devaluation – of such fixed capital assets forces the write-off of the lost value of those, thus “morally depreciated” [Marx] capital assets, e.g., due to their pre-amortization scrapping; lost value that must be subtracted from periodic profits, in the context of self-accelerating technological advances, advances paradoxically motivated by the capitalists’ pursuit of ever higher rates of profit via rising rates of relative surplus-value.

 

¿How can the Trump Faction avert what drove the capitalist ruling class to impose the ‘descendence-phase’ of capitalism – that we still inhabit in ever-worsening fashion today: the soon-resulting secular decline in capital-profitability, the very crisis that originally drove the U.S. and U.K. capitalist ruling classes, already in the late 19^th century, to desperation at the prospect of their economic and social bankrupting, and the collapse of their socio-political power, by the rapidly advancing, technodepreciating rise of the social forces of production, e.g., driven by world market competition from newly-industrializing nations in the “semi-periphery” of the capitalist ‘geo-core’, e.g., in the then-still-peripheral nations of Japan, Argentina, Italy, etc., and especially Germany?

 

Well, it might work – for awhile.

 

It might work because, at the hands of the U.S. [and U.K] formerly-ruling ruling-class faction, that we name the ‘Rocke-Nazi Faction’, and, in the U.S., the ‘Rockefeller Faction’, ever since their 1960s «coup d’état», in which they murdered President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many others who supported the previously-ruling ‘Roosevelt Faction’ of the U.S. capitalist ruling class, the ‘Rocke-Nazis’ have been de-industrializing the United States [and the U.K. even more so].

 

Therefore, the U.S. is now in the potentially advantageous world market competitive position, the position once held by the newly-industrializing nations of the “semi-periphery”, whose earlier ‘techno-depreciation-threat’ to ‘geo-core’ capitalists ended the ‘first ascendence[-phase]’ of industrial capitalism, and led ‘geo-core’ capitalists to launch the ‘descendence-phase’, with its WWI an WWII, in the first place. 

 

I.e., it is now the U.S. that, like the once newly-industrializing former “Third World” countries of the past, will be putting in place, in its Trump Faction re-industrialization drive, the latest, most advanced industrial fixed capital plant and equipment, not likely to be techno-depreciated any time soon. 

 

The world market competition from this new U.S. industrial base will, on the contrary, techno-depreciate much of the, now older, industrial fixed capital plant and equipment of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, as well as even of Taiwan, Vietnam, Bangladesh, etc., etc. – especially if their barriers to world market competition have been forced down in tariff reduction/- “fair trade” negotiations with the Trump Faction.

 

Elon Musk, for example, is the epitome of cutting edge technology and advanced fixed capital plant and equipment, in e-vehicles production, in battery technology, in underground drilling technology, in outer-space rocket technology, in human-computer interfacing technology, etc., etc., and is not likely to lose-out anytime soon in the world market technodepreciation battle.

 

Elon Musk is also an exemplar of pro-productive forces growth, ‘ascendence-phase’ capitalist values, and, even though he is the most publicly-known of such U.S. capitalists, there are many others like him in U.S. high-tech. industry, and in other industries as well.  And they are organizing around the Trump Faction.

 

Eventually – if the Majority Class does not, in advance of the coming reckoning, awaken to its true Class and All-Humanity interests, and therefore implement global Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY – a reckoning with the ‘techno-depreciation-driven’ “Law of the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall” will arrive, unless, e.g., government-backed ‘techno-depreciation insurance’ can be implemented within the limits of a still-[state-]capitalist society.

 

But we think that it is bad public policy, for a nation-state aspiring to real democracy – as opposed to the sham and the fraud of pseudo-democratic drapings, behind which lurks the criminal rule of the most concentrated owners of  financial capital, permeated by and hyper-propagating descendence-phase capitalist, “people are pollution” ideology, and working their way unrelentingly, from their already pervasive ‘stealth humanocide’, toward their planned, global, overt ‘humanocide’ – for the Trump faction to omit the equitist ‘revolutionary reforms’.

 

We think that it is bad public policy, for an aspiring real democracy --

(1) to force the wagéd and salaried workers of the Majority Class to live their daily lives under ‘democracy-less’ private-corporate dictatorships, and to continue to become ever-more-deeply inured, by habit, to that servile life-situation, and to those corporations’ often ‘corporate-Stalinist’ internal, globalized supply-chain “command economies”, with no democratic alternatives for Majority-Class Citizens to choose from;

(2) to offer the Majority Class only easily corporate-capturable, unelected, governmental external-regulatory bureaucracies to regulate the ever-rising corporate production of deadly pollution, etc., externalities, with no provisions for grass roots, democratic pollution-regulation, by local, elected and recallable public servants;

(3) to offer only a “social safety net” to Majority-Class, working-age adults that is overwhelmingly employer-based, and tied to employment that is often highly transitory, due to business-“cycle”-related and otherwise-corporate-caused mass layoffs, etc., hence not portable after such severances, and thus needing to be re-established again and again by each isolated worker, often in a diminishing sequence in the substance of such “fringe benefits” – instead of having the basic social safety net provisions tied to each individual citizen, by right of birth, from birth.

 

Hence we commend the equitist constitutional and legislative reforms, detailed via the links posted below, to the new, Trump Faction of the U.S. capitalist ruling class, if they wish to avert a ‘Second Descendence’, and to achieve a smooth-as-possible transition to a, continuing, Global Renaissance, achieved via ‘Political-ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY’, and the global formation of a base-democratic ‘Planetary Polis’ federation of sovereign nation-states on planet Earth.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 –

 

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¡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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