postself

It is said that we live in a society “even a cultural moment” that is human (self) focused.  Woa, did I just say self, sorry but that is an outdated term.  In our world, the “self” stands decentered or deconstructed; in the present, nothing exists without relation to something else.  Nothing, including the self, stands on its own.  We do not live in a postmodern, postchurch, or posttruth world. We live in a postself world, one that is conducive to Buddhism, what’s more, actual positively a nihilistic worldview.  “Emptiness is emptiness,” Nagarjuna and the Madyamika tradition have announced, though there is no one there to annunciate it.

Yes, in Harari’s understanding, the world is not material, for materiality is thought to be bad.  The prophet of the Left, Yuval Noah Harari, has put out there the theory (meaning “fact”) that the world is a series of algorithms.  When you see a potato, you see an algorithm; it is a potato-ing algorithm; this is the force of algorithms in Harari’s estimation. When seeing the world in this way, one can come to understand why the self is obsolete.  There is no essence, only the phenomena of things coming into being as algorithms process. With the developments in cognitive science and artificial intelligence, a person can be experienced as an independently standing algorithm.  If you met an android-ing algorithm (if in the “real world” not the “virtual world”), you could tell it was conscious by its behavior.  It would be conscious if you believed it was alive and experiencing the world how you understand it. 

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