Metaparallelism
Divine machinery.
I love coming across niche aesthetics that really have a pronounced... well... aesthetic. Aesthetics that are defined and potently pronounced. The chrome core aesthetic, bohemian, dreamcore, and whatever subjective expressions that somebody has compiled has been always so fascinating everytime I've been exposed to it. Divine machinery has been a recurring aesthetic I've been seeing. But today I've seen a bit more. Technological existentialism and the parallels of CPU's and cities. I think the term most apt for what I want to discuss is metacosmic recursion. Because the concept I want to touch on regards that of the parallel and relationship that co-exist with all the things we know, and the things we just don't. Creators and creations. Gods, angels and us.
Divine machinery aesthetics can be summarized down to the religious parallels from creator to creation. How we are the creators of machine creation. "we are gods and these are our angels.", "guts, roots & wires are all the same thing". If you look at a normal CPU it's odd but it looks like a city in the middle surrounded by wheat fields Not that I think that parallel proves anything, it's just something I picked up on. I think you get the idea. Through the development of artificial intelligence we are only getting closer to repeating what creationist theory can't prove. It is a theoretical explanation that makes creationist theory not completely impossible. And I don't mean to undermine the extensive and more rational evolution explanation. Algorithms are constantly tweaked and set to self-correct... Oddly the same thing evolutionary biology does. So artificial intelligence... which is just algorithms upon algorithms wrapped in each other not a terrifying parallel to biology. The way that DNA stores data, computers well.. also store data. DNA's also have algorithms by the way. It's how we exist. So what's to say that... we aren't creators. And what's to say that... we aren't creations. It's just that there's no way to prove it through an absolute science. But this does coincide with the fact that science has a hard time being absolute. And I'm getting off-topic.
But this little think train is so intriguing to me because I think about Earth sometimes. In the context of the universe. Because the theoretical possibility of aliens is always a topic I like to keep my ear open for, I thought about it. And this boils down to cancer in a way. In a funny little way, the rational, base human behavior, for those unfamiliar with the term rational, I'm talking about the monkey mode psychology of the homo sapien, we are cancers. We work with each other to conquer our surroundings, even if it means destroying it. We create societies, destroy other societies, grow and grow, deplete the surrounding resources if it means we can grow, and we don't stop until we can't grow. And this isn't just humans. Ants kind of do the same thing. Mosquitos. Cockroaches. They just don't have as potent of means and methods to cause as much environmental damage. Our opposing thumbs and willingness to collaborate = apex predator blah blah blah. So why isn't there an alien species. And here's where I'll rub my monkey brain with yours. I think there are aliens. For sure. Some not as cancerous as us. The fear of an alien race coming to conquer and wipe us out persists because that's exactly what we would do. But we also have environmentalists. We have our technology because of our smarts. Our sciences. But we also have, social sciences. We have our ethical codes, our love for dogs, a sense of love for our environment and nature. If you're gonna say no to this you're just a skeptical bitch. The human race holds both emotions. Willing to destroy the nature we're surrounded by. We've already been to space too. And in another few hundred years space travel beyond the distance we've already explored might just be possible. You see I don't know if we'll fuck it up and fermi paradox Earth, Wall-E this bitch, or what. We do know though that we haven't been conquered by a sentient alien species. Don't you think if there was an alien species sentient and advanced enough to have technological advancements of such a sophisticated degree, they wouldn't have a much more progressive society that accompanied it? Toxic social norms aren't sustainable for progress. Especially for the extreme ideal that probably exists beyond my comprehension. Do you think the planet Earth would then be treated any differently from the Sentinelese? And even my way of looking at this is fallaciously anthropomorphic, although that is the ideal comparable scale to compare an alien species to. What can we know about their speed of travel, the size of their specimen, the shape of their specimen. We can't. But if we had to have a theoretical advanced sentient counterpart species, we would most likely be Sentinelese to them if anything. And therefore irrelevant to human matters. Well, until something cracks.
Nonetheless, I've been thinking about the context of Earth to the rest of space. Stars of sizes beyond comprehension and how space has an infinitely expanding distance in between itself. Along with atoms. Aren't they just paralleled? What I'm trying to say is really simple. There is a metacosmic recursion that can be applied to our understanding of the universe. From the macro-scale to the micro-scale. And there might just be aliens. Just much bigger than we're able to comprehend, or much smaller than we're able to comprehend. We co-exist. In different scales of size. In different scales of time. The only constant is that we can't go back. We can't retract. And what happens on scales beyond our comprehension do not concern us. So we must flesh out our profound ideology, as subjective as it may be, to the best of our ability. Because that's the most we can do, and should do.