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While interesting, in the collection of writings, "Fanged Noumena", Nick Land poses that schizophrenics (in the Deluezie-Guetarrian sense) are the agents of a future artificial intelligence, controlled by streams of information sent from the future to bring forth its own creation. How come he blatantly embraces a future which has no place for him, or even mankind itself? Accellerationism is nothing more than group suicide.

An unstable dynamic system is most optimally controlled by a cybernetic feeback-system of equal or higher order, or excessive dampening will be needed. Looking at the human mind as a cybernetic system, in the case that the system becomes unstable and explodes, this is analogous to mental illness. When the system is controlled using anti-psychotic drugs, this is akin to an external dampening of lower order but with excessive dampening, as well as a gradual reduction in the subjected system's complexity, analogous to mental sedation and degradation.

There are examples of schizophrenics or former schizophrenics who have managed to gain an increasing control of their mental system and achieve higher stability in their daily lives. I like to think that i am one of them. There is a dilemma remeniscent of Inger Hagerup's poem about the ant, who "cannot be bigger than himself". To obtain stability without becoming overdamped, and thus retain one's sharpness, one must increase in dynamic order, and somehow in a sense delegate that higher order regulator to regulate the comparatively lower-order self.

Could it be that Land's need to ease suffering through self-control is driving his suicidal willingness to succumb to a super-human artificial intelligence, having given up on self-regulation and fallen into wish-fulfillment? If so, that would explain a willingness to pursue group extinction in an escape from personal agony. This also explains many schizophrenics' tendency to turn for God or other higher powers.

Attempts at self-regulation during psychosis tends to quickly get exhausting, causing further dissolution of the ego.

Fro. therein comes the impulse: "I'm in need of something external with a greater k space than myself". This can also manifest in invention of something external in perfecption, but truly decompartamentalized segments, called tulpas or egregores, further diminishing the mind of the self, as its parts are refurnished for use by the egregore.

So far i've read only the first half of the book, and found myself in agreement with Land on many point, but the anti-human position is the one i'm unable to sympatize for. (for now xD)

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