chad wrote:
Since the first two phases were extension by man, then machine, would iON represent the extension by fused man/machine?
BOB: No, I mean iON to be an extension/exaggeration of the pure NP into a collective access as well as a private access.
And, given the content of iON is us and our total information, closed system, wouldn't that imply a flip from an entropic situation to a totally new negentropic situation "no longer based on the friction in crowds"? And, if so, can we even use the word 'extension' in this case? Could it not be another dynamic, say, 'withdrawal', 'fusion', or 'concrescence'? I'm really not convinced its another case of extension, so please enlighten.
BOB: I think iON's limited to an "extension" (rather than withdrawal, fusion, or concrescence) only of the crowd dynamic in the Guf since they've always been there for the private citadel of consciousness. This does have an effect on the friction in crowds in the physical.
I am not sure iON would agree that "the body today is the processor of the question, 'what is a body?'". Wouldn't that be the domain of the mind in iON's trinity? But if that processor IS the body, then it seems like iON would be trying to persuade me out of my body when iON states that "how, when, why, where, and who?" are degrees of separation. Agree?
BOB: No, I'm emphasizing "body" just as iON plays down the activity of the mind.
So, iON is showing up to give us the balm to numb ourselves while we ride out the emotional tempest of realizing that we're eternally disconnected. How do we know that honesty about eternal disconnection is not just a figure to distract us while we all get wired together by a new environment, linguistic, para-linguistic, or otherwise?
BOB: I'm saying iON showed up to demonstrate to us how to juggle the emotions of connection and disconnection by emphasizing the juggling of connection and disconnection in the NP.
iON is showing a way around the issues of being WIRED - an irresistible force bypasses an immovable object.
Bob Dobbs