Working in TokenSpace

WORKING IN TOKENSPACE


I. Power tokens (psychosemiotic primitives)

-historical (changing): A. Huffington's list of memes and mantras in RIGHT is WRONG

ABU GHRAIB HALLIBURTON PREEMPTIVE WAR WALTER REED BLACKWATER EXECUTIVE POWER BODY ARMOR KATRINA GUANTANAMO YELLOWCAKE WATERBOARDING GEORGE W. BUSH DICK CHENEY KARL ROVE ALBERTO GONZALEZ SCOOTER LIBBY JACK ABRAMOFF CONDOLEEZA RICE PAUL WOLFOWITZ HARRIET MIERS `PAUL BREMER GEORGE TENET JOHN ASHCROFT MIKE BROWN JOHN BOLTON AXIS OF EVIL WMP SLAM DUNK SHOCK AND AWE FIGHT 'EM THERE NOT HERE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR STUFF HAPPENS

(Recognizable words and phrases from the historical context of group communication, 2000-'08. G.W. Bush psychosemiotic legacy.)

-formal existential (constant): If (not now, but maybe; possible)
When. ("..its that way; and its that way now.") These show consciousness in a situation.

ADDED: A Cheney quotation cited by Huffington illustrates how these are linked in the reptile brain: "the question was no longer if the U.S. would attack Iraq...the only question was when." (From Time, May 2002) If - When morphs over by letter substitution to If -Then . Temporal morph contiguity => implication (always completed in a conscious present presence by an act of reasoning). This reconstructs one half of Hume's analysis of cause as the reproduction of the temporal continuity of the reptile brain with the substitute word use. Bertrand Russell used this simulantity or 'immediacy'
characteristic of acts of deductive reasoning to argue that, if articulation of knowledge is given logically, in the spread of a deductive system, it is entirely possible that, whatever its content at any moment in human history, the entire universe was created five minutes ago, complete with all memories and every evidence discoverable indicating otherwise. This is the textualist's metaphysic of presence, which 'mystics' or esoterics textualize as "the eternal now", or some such. Russell showed that such S*, and the position of consciousness they tokenize, can be framed in formal logical terms (or the metavocabulary of such). (alternates*: "solipcism of the present moment", the "Om" sound, ullulation and music as qualitative content.)

Tokens: (the) present, presence, consciousness, Omnipresent Okhidanokh. Present presence to the present is a kind of energy --. Omni- (always) x -present (consciousness) => the Okidanokh --
processed through all three-brain function proceeding simultaneously as a unit.

It is unique to this system of psychosemiotic that tokens occurring in the present are the manifestation of it as a particular (and particularizing) energy. The Present* squares itself in meaningful pronounciation (an instance of S*^). This is given a name in the Gurdjieff system I am adapting: Omnipresent Okidanokh. It is the Second Grade energy proceeding from His Endlessness on the Most Holy Sun Absolute, blending active, passive and neutralizing forces according to the sacred law Triamizikamno, penetrating the totality of the universe simultaneously. The First Grade energy proceeding from His Endlessness on the Most Holy Sun Absolute manifesting through the Omni-present Okidanokh is called Etherokrilno.

If the primary material form of energy flowing through the organism is taken as its principle fluid, blood, the arousal that goes with its flow will folow the paths of kundilini. Freud used "libido" to express what is felt2 as this arousal. Wilhelm Reich linked sexual arousal leading to orgasm ("involuntary convulsive orgasmic response") as an interchange between the body and a cosmic force, the orgone energy ocean. This coincides with Kepler and other's notion of an all pervasive subtle force penetrating the universe, like light. The Omni-present Okidanokh would manifest as White light, and ecstatic pleasire illumination through the soul brain. These are specific phenomena.


God -- Token of the completing totality
Soul -- Token of totality of brain 2 content in brain 1.


II. Power uses: Squares* (S* x S* => S*^) (read "Ess asterisk squared)
Analogs: foreclosure; sealing (defining) the communication under sign-use.

Tokens: I ... Say ...Do (square of performative utterance)
... ... Think (square of articulate intellectual mental process)
... ... ... Am (square of totality of consciousness under S*)
... ... ... ... Feel 1 (square of embodied sensation under brain 3 body)
... ... ... ... ... Feel 2 (square of emotional quality under body's brain 2)

perceive Square of knowledge through sense experience
intuit Square of knowledge through body's brain 1.

III. The differends: Space v. Tokenspace

Space (physical) -- container of the body (all three brains)
Tokenspace -- container of the world of brain 1 .
Illustration. You are parked in a University parking lot watching students and faculty stoll along the sidewalks, into the library, carring books, talking. Their bodies are contained in a common physical space; their minds, as conscious content undersign-use, are contained in Tokenspace.

Bodies interact in physical space firstly, i.e., sans comminication, through brain 3. This is the reptile brain controlling response to threats, (fear), food (taste, smell), and genital stimuli. Persons interact in tokenspace through brain 1, presupposing perception, appealing to intuition for higher totalities. Brain 2 can be bypassed, when brain 1 is calculating defense against fear, obtaining food and enjoying sex exclusively and all the time. The token tautology "RIGHT is RIGHT" (example of S*^) can be, and actually is used (by Oliver North on Fox News, for instance) to "square the reversal" of rationally consistent moral behavior. It can be confronted and corrected ONLY in Tokenspace, and that by 1. distinguishing text from token in the meme itself, so that it is taken as predicating the moral right of the pro-Bush political right (same token, different text) , and 2. reversing the would-be effect of the tautology by flipping the token over on its other textual side, as it were, within the sign-use itself.

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Moral philosophy

"Right is right" (S*^) => token tautology

v "Right is Wrong" (S* x reverse-S*)^ -- text-token contradiction

The judgment that something (...x*...) is "right" proceeds from the position of consciousness that squares brain 2 with brain 1. This is the content of Kant's Categorical Imperative: x* is right => x Ought To Be. The existence of the categorical imperative, itself, Kant took to be the only rational argument for the existence of God. It is an imperative that takes precedence in rational, reflectively sustained moments, over the neurophysiological (hormonal, chemical, traumatic, etc.) imperatives to which conscious content are subject. In the considered judgment of such calm moments pondering the sense and aim of existence itself, the constraint of the categorical moral imperative is judged -- a meta-judgment, subsuming a pre-defined S* totality -- superior to, and over-riding the influx of brain 3 into brain 1. Both can be there simultaneously, leading Freud to speculate on their inner metaphysical unity as different forms of the same energy aroused in the genitals, the "soul" taken as sublimated libido. Discrimination and work necessary for tokens of the moral imperative to gain functional influence on consciousness, walking the walk and talking the talk, would be a meta-moral existential imperative, internal obedience to which is required to distinguish completion of the totality under it, or under the sway of the pleasure (fear, necessity) principle. This last is what some call a "materialist metaphysic". This is a correct contrast of energy forces
competing for/in consciousness, but incorrectly labeled. "Soul", on the three brain theory of sign-use, is as "material", in the sense of formed energy impulse, as the urge to kill, or run away from danger. It is an energy-impulse formation of a higher, entirely independent world.


The predication of something* as "right" predicates of it that it "ought to be". Since there is only one World continually extending from a given perspectival standpoint in physical space, whatever happens in it must be compatible with whatever else happens in it. This is the common world on planet earth that three brained beings inhabit. For that reason, the three perpindicular-but-not-parallel directions of lines described in TokenSpace through brain 1, which includes its own perceptual body with brains 3 and 2, constitute an intersection, or squaring, of space through/in tokenspace. When God is used correctly, at the moment, it squares tokenspace by its completing totality, including all that is given in the three dimensions.

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