Replication, which people once let into their lives, served well in the beginning. And it behaved decently. Then it grew bigger, stronger. And now it’s taking reality away from life altogether. In a cheeky way.
In the past, people close to culture used to compare landscapes, sketches, interiors, etc., with paintings by masters of painting. This was the beginning of the artificial medium – culture – becoming a separate world. It became a human habitat, pushing nature itself into the background. And now (thank goodness for replication and information technology!) – there are so many pictures around that if you let me into a beautiful landscape with the sea and palm trees, I would look at it as just another picture.
I’ve seen it many times before on TV, on the Internet. So it’s all three-dimensional, so what? They can do much more than that in Japan. The fruits of culture thus replace reality.
Substitution began a long time ago and has been increasing in intensity. Assigning to themselves the reality of living nature. I don’t even know what to call it…. It’s not even virtuality, it’s something that shatters the sense of reality.
It is a great achievement of the human mind. It finally makes a person realize that they are not living a real life. Because his surroundings can be changed, reshuffled, replaced by anything at all – and he won’t even notice….
And then what can be said of it as existing? “The bottom line,” so to speak? Only he himself exists, the man. With your attitude toward yourself and those around you.
Attitudes to himself, to those around him, to man, it is true, too, many times tried to change throughout history. And even very successfully. And the man himself until old age remains a child’s need to obey the big ones. Listen to those around you to adjust their attitudes, impressions and attitudes.
And yet, this thing, the attitude, remains inside anyway. This is not some kind of sniffer or hearing sensor, it’s the electrochemistry of neurons. Attitude is directly connected to the human self. Go look for him….
To be more precise, in the beginning of development, while this “I” has nothing at all, or, even when born, is fixated on the trough – then the attitude of the mass of such people to life can be controlled directly from the central console.
And when it grows up – wow! Then the man himself will be in trouble. Then, too, the commands from the central console cause a gag reflex in humans. And some personal goals emerge for him. Let it be vague at first, but wildly out of sync with the center and with those around it. And as people around him, he already needs those who are as ripped off as he is. And don’t even talk about the attitude to life…. Psychologists are clutching their hearts – they can’t fit him into their charts in any way.
What, you may ask, does replication of artificial realities have to do with the development of the self in man? Eh, it has a very interesting effect. Replication, of course, is just one kind of depersonalization of the environment. However, although it is following progress, it is following as in the olden days a mahout followed donkeys with a stabbing stick. Which in ancient Greek is called “stimulus. By causing trouble for the donkeys from behind, the herdsman encouraged them to move forward more vigorously toward their as-yet-unfamiliar goal.
And when replication and artificial worlds go up in smoke, the reality of reality – which is sometimes very unpleasant – then one is left with only a handful of that very “dry residue” in one’s hands – oneself. As he looks at this pile of something he doesn’t understand, he thinks, “What am I going to do with myself now?
And nothing now depends on man in the once “real” world. Because it was taken from him.
It is now up to him to accelerate the realization of his own self with others like him. Because if a man doesn’t speed up this realization, it will hurt the donkey.
