This Guardian article is very important.
http://web.archive.org/web/20220103124657/https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2022/jan/02/attention-span-focus-screens-apps-smartphones-social-media
But before commenting it I suggest the reader listen to a song.
"Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what's puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah"
Algorithms are already capable of breaking and hacking the natural cryptography that protected our human cognitive ability to concentrate. There is something demonic about them, but they are unnatural. This is ironic, because a return to demonic Nature has now become necessary.
The importance of the concept of "Nature naturing", present in the work of Baruch Spinoza, can now be appreciated with a curious twist. The denial of duality present in Christianity is also a denial of the demonic character of algorithms.
It is no accident that new digital attention-bending technologies have emerged in the West and are undermining Western hegemony. In the East, where theological duality does not exist, these technologies have a different effect.
In the East, new technologies come closer and maximize the capacity of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism to value nature. And here we see a new twist: Baruch Spinoza may in future occupy the same position in the West as Buddha, Confucius, and Lao-Tse occupy in the East.
If the West does not overcome the religious duality, which turns against it in a nasty way at this time, it will continue to decline. This fate was inscribed in the DNA of Western culture even before it produced the conditions for an economic and political resurgence in the East.
The problem: there is no escape from the surveillance capitalism that causes Western decline. All other branches of Western economic, political, cultural, intellectual and scientific activity are literally being sucked into the system that provokes mass attention psychoses.
The profits of the owners of the new game are scandalous and have already surpassed the profits of the oil companies. No one in the West will touch them, as politics cannot change business.
Neoliberalism has finally managed to turn against itself. It will sink along with theological dualism. "There is no other alternative" has finally taken on a positive meaning, as the West deserves to sink into the rubble of the polluted, unfair and sad world it has created.
Baruch Spinoza's philosophy is a way out of a world paradoxically condemned to close all its doors to the concept of "Nature naturing". If he were alive now, Spinoza would probably be smiling once more at his opponents. They don't even know they're supposed to be his allies.
Baruch Spinoza's Last Smile
Instigante o artigo, Fábio! O que vc quis dizer com 'a negação da dualidade no cristianismo é tb a negação do caráter demoníaco dos algoritmos'? Creio q compreendi o alcance, mas gostaria da sua reflexão acerca desta passagem. Saudações.