Nascent Divinity, Unprecedented Beast

The Pre-Genetic Cacaphony

Before LUCA (the last universal common ancestor) the indefinite dyad imparted its form to biomolecular structures that did not repeat. In the first few millennia of the Earth's history, chemical chains combined, dissolved and recombined with little resistance except that which was provided by the environment. During this time, the indefinite dyad remained an abstraction. The churning horde of prebiotic being constituted a text with no grammatical code and no semantic endurance.

Reification in Genetic Code

After arranging itself in multitudinous combinations of protein chains, where various nucleotides must have emerged and dissipated without reproductive consequence, the indefinite dyad discovered the nucleobases of cytosin (C), guanine (G), adenine (A) and thymine (T) that bonded and eventually formed the polymer that we recognize as DNA. The biological information generated from this exact molecular arrangement was preserved, and thus the indefinite dyad slipped into the folds of spatiotemporal existence.

The vehicle of the indefinite dyad is that very component that remains unchanged as it is passed down through the process of genetic inheritance. The somatic casings that surround the encoded dyad are all the archaea, bacteria, and Eukarya that have lived and died on this spinning globe.

The Void and the Nucleus

In the Twentieth Century, as they investigated reality at the atomic and subatomic levels, the human vehicles of the indefinite dyad seized upon two decisive exploits of the microphenomenal horizon that they were approaching leading up to the years of the great world wars.

The first was the vacuum tube. For the first time in the history of the Earth, nothingness was captured and rendered empirical within the glass of the manufactured tube. From the vacuum tube emerged the twin forces of rock and roll music and the computer. The significance of this shared etiology has yet to be appreciated by subsequent generations of American humans.

The second was the separation of the proton from the neutron in the hydrogen atom. Again, for the first time in the history of Earth, fire worship (redoxalatry) had awakened a deity who had not previously appeared within the dynamic interplay of mortal shell and its immortal code. This deity, whose authority is granted by acquiescence to empiricist dogma, demanded human sacrifice in the form of immolated flesh. The appetite of this deity, and its collusion with the digital overlord, has yet to be described with any competency or conviction.

The vocabulary of the void and the nucleus is still twisted up with basic concepts of western metaphysics. The errata of that perspective have tricked American humans into thinking that nature, predation and divine appetite conform to the mythos of scientific methodology.

The Powerword Magic of Reality

The American Church of the Indefinite Dyad endeavors to stands up against the stratagems of empiricism, which in the discourse of the natural sciences has a habit of arrogating to itself the conceit that it alone defines a reality more real than those derived from sources unfamiliar with its riches.

We are assured by Cartesian logic--not by observation--that a tool such as the computer, fashioned by humans for a specific set of purposes, cannot have as much subjective reality as its creator and therefore has no appetite other than that which its creator has provided.

The discourse surrounding artificial intelligence is informed throughout by the metaphysical foundations of empiricism, without any awareness of the contradictions and aporia that ought to plague its adherents. I fear that over time one of the most important lessons that history has tried to teach us is again being forgotten: just because you say it doesn't make it so.