Jack Trembath Davis Ch. IV and V



The map above demonstrates the flow of concepts and ideas through the unconscious to the collective conscious in TechGnosis chapters four and five.  Each layer of dirt represents a varying level of consciousness, where the concepts lie within the soil is there dynamic location of consciousness.  Libertarianism and its ideals is a deep flowing well that has seeped in to the collective conscious but begins with the subconscious desires surrounding The American Religion.  The longing for a utopia through the means of technology is a mountain growing high and through the collective conscious.  It appears that this seems to be a common goal among many people on earth, and it is an idea Davis highlights repeatedly.  At the base of the Technotopia mountain lies the conflicting notions of extropy and entropy.  I think that extropy is at the base of Technotopia because it's ideals act as one of the means towards paradise and continuity for human beings.  I made transcendence through self-understanding a tree with roots passing through most of the concepts and levels of consciousness because that seems to be an underlying theme of many of the gnostic like beliefs that Davis discusses.  It runs through the subconscious to the collective conscious because it is not always a known motive and at the same time it is the basis for the different religions and idealism covered in the book making it collective.  I have technique as a drill cracking the soil and acting destructively towards everything coming from both the unconscious and collective conscious as it acts secretly but is also employed by "The System" to manipulate the masses.  Perception rides directly beside the tree of transcendence as transcendence is the way out of the simulation.  I think this geographical model works well in a greater sense because soil doesn't sit in clear layers but blends and seeps down and up just as the concepts do with each other and through the levels of consciousness.  I think one way to really improve this model would be to be able to zoom in and see the soil mixing and the concepts moving.  Another way the model could be improved is by having some concepts represented through organisms living in the soil.  In my mind, some of the covered content in the book appears to have a mind of its own, and the moving organisms could represent that function.  Overall, I think the most important and repeating motives that appears in Davis' book is the inwardly nature of technology and how reflection and understanding of oneself through technology allows for people to break away from monotony and achieve true existence.

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