Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Repeat After Me

There is no such thing as cyberspace. There is no such thing as cyberspace. You are at a machine that sends electronic impulses to another machine somewhere, via cables and wires. This other machine is in a room somewhere with all these wires coming in and out of it. Inside the particular machine certain arrangements of molecules on discs and chips will react to the particular signals your machine is sending, which will result in a signal being sent back to your machine via cables and wires etc. Your machine then will take that particular code and through certain arrangement of molecules on discs and chips send a signal to the screen which will portray what you are reading now.

There is no cyberspace. There is no cyberspace.

Imagine you were on the only computer and there were no others. You sit at a keyboard and access information on that only computer.

Now imagine there is another computer with other information somewhere else and you connect a wire to it and now you can get the information stored on that computer.

So now there are lots of computers with lots of information and other people have connected you by wires to all those different computers.

There is no cyberspace. It is an illusion. Leave this illusion behind. Imagine what is happening before you as it really is and not the construct which has been designed this way or that.

There is no cyberspace. There is no such thing as cyberspace. Nothing in reality corresponds to this perception you have of cyberspace.

There is no such thing as cyberspace.

Let us retreat to a mountaintop where by the ancient disciplines we will train ourselves to see what is really happening here, all mundane and mechanical  and shit like that...

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