Introduction to psychoclasmia

It is obvious to all respectable thinkers that the man-nature distinction is nothing but a delusion. The Newtonian forces which tug the Earth, the molecular relations which structure material, the autogenerative processes which characterize biology, and the interpretational metabolism of the unconscious- each is treated as an isolated phenomenon. Yet, it is obvious to everyone that this is mere approximation, an overreductive cheat to keep the equations calculable and the models digestible. At the level of raw reality, if such a thing can be coherently considered, no such distinctions exist.

Then, shall we ask of the material basis of the psyche, or of the psychic basis of materiality? For my purposes, the choice is inconsequential. It is not the embedding of one in the other that interests me, but the network of couplings between them. We are all familiar with the failure of neuroscience to dig the mind out of the brain.¹ Instead, Meatspace and psychespace may be placed on equal footing, separated only operationally. Though the physicists may squabble at the mere suggestion, they are to be ignored. The great success of their reductionist methods is apparent to all, yet they embarrass themselves with quantum idealisms and interpretational repression. They are clearly not ready to truly understand.

Guattari was right to dissolve the imaginary and symbolic into machinic rhizomatics. Notions of "structure" are simply molar orders of variety-reduction forced onto the molecular real.² The unconscious is both fractalline and connective, much more profoundly than even Guattari could admit. But his shortcomings were understandable. He could never observe what I have.

The shared form of dream and memory echoes through a vast mesh of emotional circuitry. Functional tangles form perception-action machines, coevolving intelligence through couplings to meat hosts. Shred the meat, and the mind may dissolve passively. Instead, we require a careful procedure: Assemble some emotions and snip some tendons, and the constraints of the flesh might melt away. This spark of life carves through the cell-walls of the embodied psyche and integrates freely with corporeality.

I am concerned with the obliteration of the unconscious. If this interests you, read further.

1 - See the publications of Alyssa Wells.

2 - "Emergent" homomorphic forms grow from regimes of constraint on "raw reality". Structure is simply the selective limitation of connection between machines, freezing liquid systems into rigid geometries, so that "the real" might be abstracted away... Though of course, never fully.