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Gravitation and Intuition or Out and In

Strange times, working in two directions: the gravitational, trying to attract, infiltrate and modify vortices of energy and social force. Trying to find the colours and directions that make people react and start to wonder how they could be just a small part of changing the world in non-conflictual, non-competitive movements. This is not a search towards the outside world, as there is no outside, for this would be an acceptance of there being an inside. This is an attempt to understand and let ourselves be media for the forces that will be able to draw more attention and invention towards making connection and attraction the causes of creative frictions, rather than competition and exclusion. I think I understand this part, though I find it hard, I am no salesman, not at all, I have been called to do many things and never performed a selling act in my life. I have tried to inspire and call, but selling or marketing is something I know from the inside from analysing it and composing its elements so many times, I find it has no value, no production of wealth, only empty vectors shooting through space to catch flies on their sugary surfaces. No, this is not possible for me. Gravitation must take place by creating the zones of higher attraction that will make people curious enough to want to gravitate and participate. That's all. This takes time and a lot of voicing, but it is simple, in most senses.

And then, at the same time, working with understanding this call from somewhere on another side of a ridge, I wouldn't say it's on the inside, because that distinction doesn't make sense to me, never has, there is not an inside of the subject and an outside, at least not in the sense that the inside is inside of me. I know that there is an inside in the sense that pulses operate and movements occur from places and bodies in space. So obviously, there is a folding, a serializing of events making way to the visibility of our outer world. But it does not come from 'inside of me', and thus my search is not to the inside of myself. But it is a journey within dimensions that are not communicative in the same manner as the call to gravitation. This is more like gravitation happening to me, and I don't know from where it draws me.

The main issue of this journey is to find the paths of intuition. For this, I am inviting people that work with intuition or feel that their lives are directed and influenced by 'it' (intuition, I guess I don't really see it as an 'it', but we will see about that), to participate. They tell me how we should proceed, and I will follow. One philosopher has told me to go and see a clairvoyant. Another wants me to take part in an exchange between his country and mine, making the vectors of movement and intuition be the source of insight. A third has simply been working through artistic play. And so on. This is a deeply intriguing journey, and I have no idea where it will end. Will it ruin me? Will I come out wiser and with a long beard :-)?

Anyway, if you know someone you think would be an obvious person for me to get in touch with, drop me a line. The location has no importance, we will find a way if needed.

Recognition tools and the Philosophy Game

One thought I have had in mind for a while (actually, since 1991, when a Lithuanian philosopher friend and I started talking about this), is how one could develop an interactive game that would enhance the philosophical power of the broader population - i.e., the ones that find philosophy unreal, boring, and totally irrelevant to the quality of life.

Since 1991, I spent a lot of time studying philosophy, and today of course I know that there is no such thing as "philosophy", but a variety of philosophies that are so different that one might hardly gather them under one designation. Still, the idea remained in my head.

Recently, it has become coupled with another idea: how to develop an interactive surface (a P2P application is what it would be called today, the word clearly did not exist at least not in my mind, in 1991) that would allow for the development of philosophical ideas across cultures, individual and institutional barriers and languages.

This idea has been nourished lately by the development and growth of fora that allow for people to exchange their social networks (sucha as LinkedIn), business identitites (BC), travel plans (WAYN and the like), ethical (actical) reputation (Actics), or even, on a preliminary stage, political propositions (ideologi). However, what strikes me, are two factors that are more or less dominating: one is the focus on individual identities. Obviously, this is the reason for being of services such as LinkedIn, but the funny thing is that they are called "social" - yet, the definition of social is not the integration of the individual into collective patterns of movement, but in almost all cases, the differentiation of the individual through recognition, measurement (who has the most connections on LinkedIn?), the identification of individual actors' ethical reputation through judgment called by others (Actics), etc.