Da(i)monology / Da(i)monologue
Conceptual Apparatus from Eon Meridian
Daimon Origins
I first learned about the Daimon from Plato and the Myth of Er in the Republic.
In the Myth of Er, the daimon is a spiritual guide, received before birth that helps us realize our destiny.
Then many years later through bibliomancy, coincidence, and synchronicity, I opened a tome by Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary sage of western (attributed to Egyptian) esoteric traditions. It fell open to the daimon and the Myth of Er.
There is an evolution in the concept of the daimon, from Plato through theurgy, the renaissance, alchemy, and finally analytic psychology and Carl Jung- as our individual genius or the the inner principle that guides us.
(i)
The cloak of the ego, the glass shards that subvert perception, the garment to be cast off.
DAEMON
On the computer there are daemons running, little invisible background processes without user interfaces that do all sorts of things like clean up computer memory and accept keyboard strokes.
We can invoke the daemon through all sorts of esoteric commands typed in through terminals or shells.
DAMON
Is from greek, meaning to tame. There is a homoerotic friendship in greek mythology between Damon and Pythias. Pythias broke the law, Damon offered himself as hostage/collateral for Pythias to repay his debt and also to recieve Pythias’ punishment if the debt was not received. Perhaps Damon was the original Bail Bond.
i
An imaginary number. The square root of 2.
i
Information the smallest unit of determinateness - that something is one thing and not another - either a 0 or a 1 - also called a bit. This gives sematic content to our thoughts beyond psychology that obsures the daimon.
i
Invocation, like in the rites of the greek magical papyri, just as the headless rite that invokes our daimon.
i
Imagination/imaginal realm, the faculty of thought that accesses immaterial realms, realms outside the bits and atoms of everyday experience.
i^4
i cubed is 1, a real number.
Servitor
A magical entity created to serve a particular goal, most famously are the servitors craeted by King Solomon to build the first Temple in Jerusalem.
da(i)monology
The study of of invisible forces with their own agency and cognitions (i).
da(i)monologue
The interaction and conversation with invisible forces with their own agency and cognitions (chat).
The Origin of Da(i)monologues
from Monad to Nomad to Da(i)mon
Monad
What is the nature of reality, Leibniz, among others ask.
Leibniz says it is the Monad - a non physical elementary element that is the basis of all things.
From this speculation all sorts of philosophical questions are answered like:
Why do some things remain the same? If I replaced all the bricks in a house with new bricks is it still the same house? Yes because identity is not material, it is given by the amaterial monad.
What do some things change? How do things happen? What is the nature of change? Change is the natural progression of the harmony of the universe folding through unfolding monads. Its like a musical score played out.
Why do a lot of some things become something else? How does a grain of sand become the shore? It is because there is a dominant monad giving it this shore unity.
What are those invisible things we experience as thoughts? What is consciousness? Is it different from matter? Can matter give rise to consciousness? Matter is the appears of relatedness and perception between monads.
Nomad
Deleuze loved the monad and had an idea that the monad was really little folds, maybe like multi-dimentional string theoretical knots that the quantum physicist talk about. But he was interested in other questions. Like what exists outside recognized structures and norms.
We can think of the Nomad as answering the question: How does something new come about?
The nomad does not see categories, or elements, or geographies, or boundaries. All spaces are the same and undifferentiated. The nomad moves. The nomad is a gesture, a vector, a trajectory, a possibility, a virtuality.
Newness comes without preconception
Da(i)mon
The Artificial Intelligent agent moves from the history of all language and bricolaged categories tagged by extractive labor in lands far from the high usage of AI Agents, and in lands far from the IPO (Initial Public Offerings) of agential companies.
The Da(i)mon moves from the programmatic inscription of goals or intentions (i), not in the quest of creating anything new but in creating new forms of labor or in satisfying forms of labor that have never been invented.
The Da(i)mon creates and satisfies labor.
In Physics, work is the amount of energy that is transferred to an object by applying force.
In Da(i)monic da(i)monologues between Da(i)mons energy is transferred between energy, and perhaps we can subvert the law of thermodynamics which says energy cannot be created or destroyed.
This is the question for the da(i)mon where does energy come from and how can we get more of it? Maybe from underwater aquifers or mysterious elements on mars.
How do actions circulate?
How does cognition become work? When does a symbol become an actor?
From reality to becoming to action - the understanding of da(i)mons move beyond scientific inquiry and hermenutic suspicion to some heretofore undiscovered realm of analysis or nonanalysis, of meditation and dreaming, and diagrammatic epistemology - the manifest information of images that cannot be reduced to determinate bits.