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A substantial revolutionary page that ties computational description, realization, and political transformation together.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they keep Negarestani's decay line materially and politically active. Decay, navigation, and revolution are treated as operational processes, not as metaphors of decline or doom.
The pages work by making planetary depth, architectural softness, decomposition, and computation carry political argument. Material process is the medium in which strategy and transformation are thought.
That matters because this cluster keeps Negarestani tied to geotrauma without reducing him to horror aesthetics. It shows a route from decay and geology into political and conceptual construction.
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Read for how the page turns material process into orientation or strategy rather than mere description of ruin.
Track where geophilosophy and politics are forced into the same frame. That crossover is where the cluster becomes most distinctive.
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Definition · paragraph 1
The revolution is back (Turing, functional realization and computational description)
Definition · paragraph 8
By functionally realizing the human, Turing draws a new link between emancipation (here the emancipation of human significance at the level of activities or functions) and the liberation of intelligence as a vector of self-realization. Both Turing's computationalism and functionalism are significant because the ramifications of these programs—no matter what their current state is and what setbacks they have suffered— cannot be thought by their present implications.
Definition · paragraph 8
Both Turing's computationalism and functionalism are significant because the ramifications of these programs—no matter what their current state is and what setbacks they have suffered— cannot be thought by their present implications.
Definition · paragraph 3
In this respect, I take side with Alan Turing's response to Arguments from Various Disabilities (AVD) where he challenges the common forms of rejecting the possibility of the functional realization of the human mind in different substrates—for instance, in machines.
Definition · paragraph 5
But why is the Turingian Revolution in cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence the only revolution that is instantly conceived in and takes place in the future? Because what Turing proposes is a schema or a general program for a thoroughgoing reconstruction and revision of what it means to be human and by extension, the humanity as a collective and historical constellation. The underlying assumption of Turing is that the significance of human can be functionally abstracted and realized.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.