Golem

Viktor A.Mazin (ppkab@dux.ru)
Fri, 11 Jul 1997 01:03:20 +0400

Jordan Crandall wrote 9.07.97.:
"I am having trouble with the "golems of consciousness,"

We have troubles with Golems of Con-sciousness as well.
Althoug we can't stop to re-create Golems, we try to trace
them wherever they appear.

1) Golems of Con-sciousness are "techno-ideological membranes".

The Golem is a recurring image, a stereotype for certain relationships
between individuals con-sciousness (the division into semantic
components indicates collective parameteres of con-sciousness,
co-knowledge) and his technological handiwork
(in wider sense incompassing both the production of material
and mental objects). Man creates Golem to carry out his job, in a
sense Golem is embodiment of man's technological extention. .
But at the same time Golem suggests the fear because it could
suddenly go out of man's control. That's why Golem's figure
is chosen to represent relationships between man and
engendered him technology. On the one hand we could
say that consciousness is itself a form of technology,
a set of tools and devices for communicating
with oneself, with other beings and with the environment.
On the other hand the functioning of consciousness,
the coupling of consciousness and the hand, predetermines
the development by man of technological extensions.
There is gap between the rates of biological and
technological evolution (in different way it is represented
by Bernard Stiegler, who describes the gap between
consciousness and technology as a fundamental pecularity
of human activivty, and Marvin Minsky who proposes various
ways of overcoming this gap by means of technology -
in particular, through the creation of our 'mind-children').
The gaping hole between technology and consciousness
is filled up by membranes for detecting the presence of
Golem. Golem never is alone, his repetitive image becomes
similar to states of obsessive delirium.

To be continue
2) Golems of Con-sciousness are " the virtual helpers that operate as
"phantasmatic guards of the matrixial borderlines."
3) Golems of Con-sciousness are "servitors of powerful anthropic principle.
4) Golems of Con-sciousness arise from the grave of the Real.
5) Golems of Con-sciousness could be described as black holes

Olessia Tourkina, Viktor Mazin