Heidegger

PART FIVE - THE MATERIAL IMPERATIVE The term the Material Imperative is a key term coined to characterise the imperitival self-regulation of the physical realm of objects known as a ‘materiocracy.’ Such material objects exist as the ‘regulators of their own physicality,’ regulated by the necessity of the sub-systemic and super-systemic physical affinities in which they are constrained to exist. In the true spirit of eliminativist phrase structure, the term ‘ Imperative’ should be positioned adjectivally before the noun ‘’materiocracy,’ in the manner of: ‘The imperious materiocracy,’ a syntactical stratagem which ontologically diffuses any suggestion that ‘imperiousness’ is an abstract ‘ ’ property’ of the materiocratic integrum. But no matter how the eliminativist twists and turns , he cannot escape being enwrapped in the Medusan coils of a serpentine traditional abstraction. The spectral ‘Laws of Nature’ are seen not as some set of physical formulae applied by an abstract, spiritualised dius absconditus renamed as: ‘nature,’ nor as the heavenly ordinances of some spiritual being. The Material Imperative is a term which characterises ‘that which exists’ as existing both as a singular meta-systemic ‘Ding an Sich’ (thing in itself’) - and synchronically as a multiplicity of pluralistic ‘Gegenstände in Sich’ (things in themselves’) at the same time. Existing consubstantially both as a meta-systemic conglomerate and a sub-systematised diaspora, embodying the infinite cosmos as the sole state in which the integrum could and does exist, the signifier ‘material imperative’ points to the nomological system-command structure existentially and modalically embodied in the ‘meta-systemic integrum.’ Both words are abstract labels for the same material entity ‘within’ which covariant and contravariant sub-systems manoeuvre for hierarchical position via the ‘big bangs’ as envisaged by cosmologists and other cosmic events and the quantum collision events of tiny holonarchic sub-systemic systems only visible as trace-marks on the screens of the observational monitors in synchrocyclotron control rooms. The “scare quotes” around the adverb ‘within’ are deliberate, in the sense that as the ‘meta-systemic integrum,’ is conceived of as unboundedly infinite in every direction – there is no ‘without’ and consequently no ‘ within.’ (1) Vacuuity [nothingness] or the absence of matter is infeasible. A vacuum, if it were to be a physical possibility [which it isn’t] would be instantly filled. [’nature loves a vacuum etc.’] Micro-objects from space can penetrate deep into the earth’s mantle – man-made flasks, however thick, offer no barrier at all. Nota bene: Part vacuums do NOT qualify as a vacuum – because a vacuum is by its very nature an absolute. (2) Only that which is material can exist – the non-material can neither exist nor not exist. (3) To exist is not an option that is selected automatically in the absence of some alternative – There is no alternative. The deterministic default of ‘ that which exists’ can only exist as: ‘that which changes.’ (4) All entities are self-changing. That which changes changes itself. All objects undergo self-actualisation. The existential change of Hume’s struck billiard ball moving away after the collision is a prime example of a self-protective, yielding self-actualisation event, where an holonistic system changes its performance in response to the greater holonistic environment.

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