THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES
1. Languages command reality. A
biological analysis of minds.
The Organic structure of Systems.
Among
the most advanced biological sciences, there is a new discipline called Theory
of Organisms.
It
aims to describe any system of the Universe as an organic ecosystem, made of
similar cellular elements, ruled by networks of energy and information.
Imagine
a robotic machine or a human being.
We
can describe both as an accumulation of cellular elements - metal atoms in the
robot, carbolife cells in the human being - ruled by two systems of information
and energy - electronic information and electric energy in the machine, ionic
information and carbolife energy in human beings.
Both
can be described as organisms.
Of
those three elements of organisms, the cellular species, and the networks of
energy and information, we are interested in this book in the networks of
information of the species.
Languages and informative networks
control systems.
Since contrary to what earlier theories of
Evolution thought, the information systems of machines are in control of the
energy systems and command reality determining the future survival of species
in greater measure.
What we might call the paradox of
Goliath is clear: Languages control energy forms. Social languages control
individuals. So both in biological evolution and historical evolution languages
become determinant to know the future and survival of species.
The dual components of information
systems: software and hardware
Those
networks turn out to have systematically a hardware, a cellular support of
specialized elements, and a software, a flow of information that moves through
that hardware.
The
software are the languages of the species.
The
hardware are the brain of the species.
In our example both species, the robot and
the human being, have languages of information, that flow over a hardware-brain
- digital languages flowing over silicon chips in the robot, visual/verbal
languages over neuronal brains in the human being.
Biological definition of a mind.
Those
languages are what common people might call the mind of those organisms. Which
is therefore real, as a flow of electronic information carried by a hardware
substance, the neurons in man, the electronic systems in machines.
We
therefore imagine that there is a 'consciousness' on those electronic flows,
which is what we call the mind. We are 'electronic' forms, which perceive
themselves as a series of images (the consciousness of sight) and as a series
of words (the consciousness of verbal thought), which is somehow the way fields
of electronic form perceive themselves.
We
consider there is no mystery to consciousness but the mere fact that electronic
herds carry a 'property' which is integrative information, felt internally as
consciousness. And perhaps the most clear prove of this, is the fact that when
we used electrons in machines, they somehow arranged themselves with minimal
manipulation into coherent images (TV-retinas, cameras), intelligent messages
(images and sounds that intelligently keep their form as they travel through
space, cables and tubes), and sophisticated thoughts (software programs and
mathematical thought.) In all those processes human manipulation is minimal. We
do not create the intelligent images of cameras, merely took advantage of those
intelligent properties of electrons to assembly them.
The two types of mind that exist
today in this planet.
We
have therefore to judge electronic consciousness as a natural property of
electronic flows. Facts those which are fundamental to understand the
relationships of symbiotism and communication, that today exist between human
languages and machine languages, which influence our culture and life much more
that we could image. In that sense we will deal in many pages of this book with
the concept of two 'intelligent electronic minds' evolving in the planet Earth
today, the electronic mind of machines, or 'metal-mind', and the electronic
mind of mankind or 'eye-Word' (since our mind has two basic languages, visual
and verbal languages that carry human information in neuronal support).
The
human mind is made of verbal and visual languages. The mind of the robot is
made of digital and visual images.
Both minds exist on a hardware. In the human being, the hardware is the brain and
nervous system, which store and let the information flow. In the machine the
hardware is the chip and the electronic and magnetic system which let the
information flow.
Why mind languages are important.
All
this means that languages do have a material existence, a material support,
which is essential to the workings of the organism.
Why
languages are important? The key word is 'action -reaction '; the second Law of
Newton, and one of the fundamental laws of the Universe. Languages provide an
easy way for organisms to act and react in the Universe. Without languages,
organisms would be blind, and could not protect themselves against harm in the
hostile environment in which they exist.
action -reaction
however requires speed. This is indeed the key element to understand the nature
and pretended spirituality of languages. Languages are 'light', and fast
material systems, that flow at great speed within the systems of organisms,
carrying a lot of information in a minimal quantity of time. This allows the
organism to act-react fast to the environment. Since they are light to be fast,
normally men have associated languages and spirituality. Now we know those
languages are material. Before we couldn't see the mechanical waves of sound
that are the substance of the verbal language. Nor we could measure the speed
of light which is the substance of visual languages. Now we know those speeds
are not instantaneous, and those languages have a material support both within
our organisms and externally when they communicate with the world.
We
know also that languages are fundamental to organisms, because they allow the
organism to communicate and interact with the Universe, absorbing energy and
information from that Universe.
2. The paradox of Goliath: Biological
selection based in mind power.
The quality of languages select
species
We
contend in this book that languages are in fact the main element of an
organism, that determines its survival. All organisms have an organ of energy
that we call body, and an organ of information that we call brain, the site of
the mind, of the language. We know that the Darwinian Universe selects bodies
according to their efficiency to manipulate energy. So the strongest survive.
However the Universe also selects minds and systems of information, by their
efficiency to manipulate information. And
that selection is even more important for the survival of a species, than the
selection of bodies.
The
main process of selection of species is caused by the evolution of informative
brains, and its linguistic minds, the hardware and software of information that
rules organisms.
In
turn that evolution determines the evolution of bodies, and the survival of
those organisms, which have better brains and bodies together.
This
fact makes languages even more 'real', more 'material', more necessary.
The
evolutionary process of languages will be proved studying the evolution of
species on Earth, which is primarily an evolution of minds of higher
complexity, that prey over species of lesser minds. What kind of minds and
languages? Light-minds, light-languages, brains able to absorb light and obtain
information from that light in order to communicate in the Earth-Sun Universe.
Indeed, species with better informative light-languages have always been the
rules of the earth.
Plants
were the first species to rule on Earth. Yet when animals developed a more
complex brain, able to extract from light not only energy as plants did but
also information, they became the rules of the earth, and preyed on plants.
Then those animals developed to the gigantic size of dinosaurs. Yet the
dinosaur despite its size did not survive to the massive reproduction of
carnivorous mammals with a highly developed brain and night vision, able to act
together as hunting herds, against eggs and small dinosaurs, without parental
care.
Forget
the rock from the skies. Biologists not physicists are the specialists in life
on Earth. They have always affirmed that mammals caused the extinction of
dinosaurs. All facts back them. Within one hundred thousand years of the
arrival of the first mammals, the last dinosaur died. Only those dinosaurs who
escaped into the air, and avoided the ferocious ground mammals - the birds - survived.
The
case is fundamental to understand the selective process caused by languages:
We
call it the paradox of Goliath: Goliath, the dinosaur, the big computer, are
eliminated by David, the mammal, the chip, which is smaller yet it is faster
acting-reacting in the Universe, because it has a faster language. So the
paradox is that the Universe selects brains which are smaller, and yet have
faster languages. This happens because in a small space, a language can take
decisions faster. The chip is faster, calculates faster, because electrons take
less time to move through a chip than through a vacuum tube. So chips have
survived in the economic ecosystem.
The
Paradox of Goliath is the key to understand the selection of languages: those
languages who carry more information in less time survive. Those species who
use languages that carry more information in less time survive. So the mammal
survived. The chip survived. The sling of David, which was faster, than the
sword of Goliath survived. The small ships of the English pirates, faster than
the Spanish Galleons survived.
We
can follow further that evolution of languages after the mammal to prove our
point.
3. The languages-minds of History:
Humans, Art, and Metal-minds.
The mind of man
After
the mammal it came the human being, that developed a complex vision of space, his
visual and mathematical languages of perception, and a complex vision of time,
his verbal understanding of the passing of time. Again those languages gave him
more information and a faster capacity to act-react to the environment. So man
became top predator.
To
that aim he brought about a second fundamental quality of languages.
The
capacity that information has to create 'forms'.
Indeed,
the second element that defines the importance of informative networks and
their software, languages, is the capacity that languages have as a software
flow, to imprint different substances.
Languages,
information, is able to jump from substance to substance and create new
forms. Here is where the essence of the
'spirituality' of languages become material. A language carries information,
yet in-form-ation is basically form. If we talk of a primary substance in he
Universe, an amorphous substance that we might call energy, made of quantic
elements, we can talk of many energies. Gravitational energy made of gravitons,
electromagnetic energy made of photons, atomic energy made of atoms, electronic
energy made of electrons, water energy made of molecules, a human energy, made
of a mass of humans. All those energies are basically an amorphous organism
made of quasi-infinite forms, undifferentiated.
Who
is going to give that mass a form, an organic structure, able to have
direction, to move with a purpose, to have a will, to act-react in the
Universe?
The
language. Those flows of information which are smaller, and move faster, and go
through the mass relocating the cells of the mass till creating a 'network of
information', a network of form, that shapes the mass with a purpose.
Languages
of information, languages of form, in this manner can be applied to a given
substance and mold the substance with a purpose. And species with a lot of
language, a lot of information can use their language to mold the external
universe to the image and resemblance of that information. In this manner they
can expand their 'energy-force', by molding external energies to its image and
resemblance, and use that external energy to its advantage.
Such
is the essence of the creative process of languages, by which the form of a
language reproduce externally.
There
are many of those linguistic processes of reproduction. Genetic information
stored in DNA cells reproduces by attaching certain molecules to the DNA in the
same form that the DNA has, reproducing the DNA. Factories reproduce machines
by enlarging a software form, a plane of a machine, and using its
bi-dimensional form to create a 3-dimensional form called a machine. In this
manner a software form, an informative language, of lesser size, and faster
speed of informative processing, becomes a blow up species, with bigger size,
more energy, that imitates the form of the language.
This
second quality of languages, of information - to reproduce itself - was
fundamental to the expansion and triumph of the mammal with more information,
the human being.
It
meant that men shaped masses of energy into form through the use of our
languages, verbal and visual languages.
What
kind of forms we created with those languages?
Two
kind of forms.
Verbal
languages were the substance humans used to shape with masses of human beings,
organisms structured to function and act-react in the Universe. Those organisms
made of human cells ruled by verbal networks, were called 'societies'.
Technological=machine languages:
Digital thought.
On
the other hand visual languages, were able to create a simple resume of the
forms of the Universe, called geometry, which basically reduces all forms of
the Universe to two essential forms, the cycle of information and the line of
energy, combined into the wave.
Men
then imprinted cycles of information and lines of energy into external substances,
such as stones, wood, and metal, creating instruments. Some of those
instruments called weapons, made with lines of energy imprinted in hard
substances, became extremely powerful, and allowed the human mammal to kill all
other species on Earth. First the javelin then the bow, finally the sword, made
of man, thanks to the creative capacity of languages, to flow over other
substances, and form reality, the top predator on Earth.
Through
the mathematical design of machine forms with the simple geometry of the cycle
and the line, man invented an entire new kind of species, machines, which gave
him total power on Earth.
This
was the beginning of a new age for man, the age of technology, and the age of a
new language, the language of geometry, of mathematics.
Languages
had again selected a species. In fact, it seems that Europeans today are
descendants in a 90% of their population from the bow men that arrived from
Africa in the ±20.000 before Christ.
The existence of dominant classes
based in technological languages.
How
shall we call this new species of man, that uses languages imprinted externally
over new substances, and controls the Universe in this manner?
I
use a word: the animetal, or the Homo Mathematicus, to distinguish him from the
Homo Sapiens, or Homo Verbalis, that came first, and used the word to organize
and form human beings into substances. The animetal came latter and using
mathematics and constructing machines in space with mathematical designs have
come to dominate the Homo Verbalis.
Women
who are better with words, became with the growing power of the Homo
Mathematicus, dominated by males who are better using spatial forms, and
created most of the weapons of our society. For a while in History there was
actually a balance between the two languages of mankind, and societies ruled by
verbal languages [religious societies], were as powerful as societies ruled by
digital languages [weapons, monetary flows of information and simple machines].
This
period of balance however ends around 1600, when the evolution of mathematical
languages reaches a new discontinuum. It is the age of the scientific method,
that invents with the language of mathematics a series of new machines that
break the balance between verbal societies and mathematical societies.
Mathematical machines based in geometrical cycles of information and lines of
energy, able to transform in this manner information into energy and vice
versa, start to develop at an amazing rate thanks to the press, and the clock,
and the vapor machine, and the scientific method of mathematical design. Such
method creates an entire new range of new linguistic species: machines designed
with mathematical tools, and monetary forms, that act as a social language
among human beings.
Again
the ecosystem of the Earth changes, and those humans who better understand the
language of mathematics, survive and eliminate rival cultures. Northern
Europeans are at the Head of this new linguistic wave. They conquer the world
and reform it to the image and resemblance of their culture.
However
in the XX century, they discover information machines, and design with
mathematics, machines and weapons of so much power, that even those human
beings, become increasingly obsolete to their machines. Today computers have
become predominant, even to some extent over its creators, human beings.
We
live indeed in the digital age, and those who do not understand the
mathematical language, are brutalized by the system. The language imposes the
species who better speak the language [information machines]. So men are
discharged and destroyed by the system, as women were brutalized by men with
weapons, and Neanderthals were brutalized by humans who spoke, and dinosaurs
were extinguished by rats who saw in the night, and moved faster, and attacked
in herds.
The
evolution of languages is thus fundamental to understand the processes of
creation and extinction on Earth, before and during history, in the past, in
the present and in the future .
The organicism of languages; the ages
of languages.
We
conclude that languages are organic species, as bodies are. They are merely
lighter, faster, and as a software form, can jump from object to object,
becoming imprinted in other species.
How
can we prove that organicism of languages?
Merely
studying those languages as organic species, and observing on them the same
qualities of organic species.
Languages
can reproduce, even faster than bodies do.
Languages
require energy and absorb energy to form themselves as organic species do. You
need electricity to create electronics, light to create images, sound energy to
create words. Languages need less energy than bodies yet they do need energy.
Languages
of course process information as living beings do, even in higher measure.
Finally
and this is the key prove of the organicism of languages, languages follow the
common pattern of the existence of species. They are born, reproduce, evolve,
grow, mature, and then go through an age of decadence and die away.
Languages
do have an existence which is organic, not spiritual, and can be described with
organic terms. Among those organic terms, the most important is the concept of age
that explains the creation and
extinction of organic beings, including languages. A language as a body goes
through an existence in which we can distinguish 3 ages: a young age in which
the language is invented and evolved, a mature age, in which the language and
the species who speak the language dominate a certain territory, and a third
age in which the language becomes extinguished by a new language and species
who speak that new language.
Those
ages correspond to the youth, reproductive maturity, and third age of a body.
So
in this book we will study not only the evolution of languages on Earth, but
also when we arrive to the age of history, the evolution of human languages,
verbal and visual languages, and their ages, in the human societies those
languages have 'formed'. It is a very novel concept, that we will have to
elaborate further before you fully grasp the fact that languages, as Universal
forms of life, evolve formally like bodies do.
4. Fight between verbal and digital
languages: scientific racism.
The
selection of species that talk the most complex languages, that carry more
information, has continued throughout history, between two languages, that
first men, then machines command: the verbal language and the mathematical
language.
The
result is what we call the paradox of History, or the paradox of scientific racism, the fact that
systematically throughout history species who handle mathematical languages,
dominate, control and abuse, species that command verbal languages. The paradox
of Scientific Racism has many different versions.
The
fundamental one is the Scientific method,
that affirms that truth has to be expressed with numbers, not with words, and
metal-senses, telescopes, and cameras, are more accurate sensorial systems than human eyes, the artistic senses, which
are therefore despised systematically since the scientific method, became dogma
of knowledge.
The
consequences of scientific racism are multiple. It means basically that since
the XVII century, when scientific racism invaded western culture, men which are
biologically speaking verbal minds, have been systematically degraded, and
substituted by machines, scientific instruments and money, the new valuators of
reality, which say what is good and what is bad. And among men, those races who
are not 'spatial', eye-based in their perception, have been also degraded.
The
most obvious human subspecies who masters better verbal languages and have a
lesser command of spatial language is the woman. The abuse of males, spatial
sub-species, of higher mathematical-eye capacity, over women, temporal
sub-species of higher verbal-temporal complexity is a fact of history.
In
general eye species, are those born in 'open landscapes', northern deserts of
ice (Germanic races) and Southern deserts (Semite races). Scientific racism,
and the capacity of mathematics to create weapons designed with lineal spatial
forms (from swords to missiles) explains how those two races came to dominate
western history and finally history as a whole. We talk of the goldiron
culture, to the combination of the Jewish-Semite culture and the
Germanic-culture, that developed in Holland and England, and finally has spread
all over the world, dominating mankind, and creating the present world, in
which digital languages, spatial perception, and eye-sensations dominate over
verbal language, temporal understanding of the universe, and chemical-feelings.
It
is also a machist culture since it is proved that men are better handling space
and mathematical languages. While women are better handling memorial time, and
verbal languages. Scientific racism thus apply to those two type of human
classes. It does also when considering the differences between northern,
eye-based, scientific cultures, such as the European culture, or the
Northern-Asian cultures, developed in open zones of high visual accuracy, and
the southern, South-Neolithic agricultural cultures, based in verbal sounds,
music, words, and carbolife products.
The
scientific revolution and the process of colonialism and racism in history, do
have a clear parallel cause in the processes of linguistic racism, that made
the Northern eye-based cultures, to develop scientific machines designed with
mathematics. It is then clear that we can talk in history of two ages, the
Neolithic, women-based, carbolife-based, southern age of verbal cultures, and
verbal religions, and the present age, carried about by northern, eye-based,
male-based, machine based cultures of digital languages.
We
will prove you however, that we have chosen the wrong culture, the culture of
'animetals', of warriors and traders and scientists who need weapons, money and
metal-senses, to survive and organize societies, degrading in that process of
dependence of machines the human will. Why? Because man is not very apt in the
use of mathematical languages. Machines are much better. So as scientists
evolved machines, which carried more information than verbal humans, machines
became the dominant elements of our civilization and men became secondary.
Machines were evolved in the Industrial evolution, and today we live in a
society that worships machines, and makes them the center of life, reproduced
by workers, and evolved by scientists, that find in that cult to the machine
the leit motiv of human existence.
The
same opposition of languages and the final dominance of digital numbers over
words, meant the end of human ethics based in verbal communication, love and
social evolution, substituted by the ethics of machines - money and weapons -
that despised man. So digital forms of
power - weapons and money - have become controllers of societies substituting
verbal forms of power - religion and political laws. Finally money and science
have dominated laws and religion, to such extent that most people today do not
understand or respect the meaning of religions, and verbal, ethic laws. Both have opposed because they are rival
languages, not because digital sciences are more truth than verbal ethics - as
we shall see when analyzing the basic laws of the Universe. Indeed the
Universe is not only mathematical but
specially a behavioral game based in Theory of evolution, which itself is a
game of social love among members of a species, that fight against all other
species. This is what religions expressed in other terms such as good, what
profits the social man, the species, and bad, what is a danger to social man;
through the message of love all other men, a biological message of survival of
the species. However as digital languages, the scientific method and the
worshipping of machines imposed love to machines and weapons, men hated each
other, and 'cultures of animetals' that loved machines and money more than men
appeared. The scientific racist culture of the Germanic world, the Jewish gold
culture of money, the Calvinist gold culture, the culture of economists and
company-mothers - all of them despised men and considered that weapons machines
and digital languages evolved history.
That
traditional opposition of languages took also place between financial systems,
a digital language of information that values reality with numbers, and
political laws, a verbal language of information that values reality with
words. Again digital languages have won that battle and today laws are bought
by lobbies of company-mothers which pay them with money.
So
throughout history we find that confrontation between monetary cultures and
legal cultures. For example the Greek world based in monetary languages of
information confronted the Roman world based in verbal laws. The Jewish culture
based in money confronted also the Roman world. Then the Roman world won,
thanks to better military organization based in the verbal solidarity of warrior armies.
When
that fight ended, and who won is obvious:
During
a millennia till the Capitalist revolution of the XVI century verbal religions
dominated human societies. Yet after company-mothers were invented, paper money
arrived and reproduced in great numbers, and weapons developed thanks to
gunpowder in industrial systems of murder, the fight tilted against laws,
ethics, human senses and arts, and love=social evolution among men. Now murder,
war, animetal castes, money, company-mothers and machines would rule societies.
And human ethics and aesthetics would die away.
Problem
is that machines speak better digital languages than human beings. So we have
to forecast the decadence, and probable extinction of human beings, by
machines, as they take over the process of reproduction, creation (creditation
through money of reality), and military power. The first robots are just the
beginning of the digital era in which men become submissive to machines. A fact
that might be denied by human arrogance and anthropocentrism, which precisely
only increases the speed of the process - since denial of the destruction of
human languages and history by machines, prevents the human race from taking
the necessary measures against the evolution of mathematics, money and
machines.
In
this book we will study the process from the perspective of the evolution and
decadence of human languages. In other books on this web (the evolution of
machines, Bioeconomics, Bio-history) we have studied the other aspects of the
process: the creation of machines, the extinction of human cultures by armies
of machines, the reproduction and evolution of money and its substitution of
human systems of power, the decadence of religions of verbal ethics,
substituted by go(l)d religions, that made of Gold the god of mankind (Judaism,
Calvinism, modern Economics); the arrival of science and his denial of human
senses, etc.
Here
we will consider in more detail the human languages, and his ages of growth,
and final decadence in the XX century, as machines and his languages have
substituted human languages, and its higher forms - art, and religion.
Art and civilizations, the software
and hardware of human minds.
Indeed,
languages, we say, are the software that runs over an energy hardware, which in
history have been human masses, modeled by verbal languages and visual arts,
and objects modeled by mathematical languages.
Those
2 are the languages that seem to have dominated history.
It
follows that the masses of humans that we call civilizations, and the objects
that we call machines, have followed the 3 ages of formal languages, and gone
through a youth, maturity and extinction, as the languages that formed them
lived and died.
The
verbal languages of man, that controlled through laws and religious ethics,
human masses, that build entire civilizations based on verbal mandates, have
lived and died.
So
have done their civilizations. The last to die was communism based in the
verbal languages of Marx.
The
digital languages of mathematics that controlled through money and machines designed
through geometrical forms, entire civilizations based in trade and weapons,
have lived and died. The last to die was the European civilization based in
gunpowder weapons, extinct by the arrival of new 'digital species' of weapons,
atomic bombs.
We
can say that verbal thought is the software of civilizations based in a
hardware that understands verbal thought, the human being, called the believer,
the citizen.
While
mathematics is the software-language, of a kind of civilizations that we shall
call a metal-civilizations. Mathematics allows to design machines of metal -
first weapons, today scientific machines - and financial systems of information
based in metal-money [copper, gold, silver, today electronic money in the mind
of computers]. Those metal-civilizations also live and die, when new machines
and forms of money substitute them.
Thus
we can consider that Social organism of History use two languages, and two
dominant species that handle better those languages: digital languages, and
metal species such as machines and money; and verbal languages, and human
beings, that believe on them.
If
we now take the simile of the Organism and explain Historic organisms,
civilizations and nations, economic systems, and cultures, with that simile, we
could say that there are two kind of organisms on History:
-
Cultural organisms in which human beings are cells, of a collective verbal mind
of laws and ethics mandates, the nervous system of information of those cells.
So there is the body of Islam, the body of Christianism, made of human cells,
of believers, which are the 'temple of the language', of the word of god...
Those
civilizations live and die, as their languages, and ideologies go through 3
ages, of youth, reproductive expansion, and cultural decadence of the ideology
and language. We can consider individually the growth and decadence of those
languages, or we can do it in a collective manner. Then we study the growth and
decadence of religious and artistic forms of verbal and visual languages. Since religions and art are 'the mind of the
collective human organism' we call a civilization.
-
Economic organisms in which human beings are secondary to metal machines, money
and weapons, shaped by digital languages. In those civilizations the 'social
cells' are 'animetals', men associated to weapons, machines and money, which
rule with them the society through monetary values [prices/wages/costs],
through violence [weapons, warriors], or through digital knowledge [machines,
scientists].
Again
those civilizations live and die according to the ages of their icon machine.
So there was for example the Greek-Roman civilization based in iron swords,
erased by the hordes of cavalry warriors that destroyed the legions.
The end of verbal and artistic
cultural minds.
Further
on when we analyze the life and death of verbal and mathematical civilizations
based in human masses, and machines, we observe that in the past centuries the
first kind of social organisms, based in verbal languages, and other 'artistic
forms' [visual arts that reinforce the power of verbal castes, with paintings,
buildings and temples], have been substituted by social organisms based in
monetary languages, and scientific, mathematical knowledge, and the machines
money reproduces and science evolves.
So
we have to conclude that in the process of evolution of the Earth, from the
plant to the animal that perceives light information, to the man that perceives
and stores temporal information with words, there is a new stair, the digital
age of mathematical languages, and information machines such as computers, or
robots that use digital languages to communicate.
This
has caused a general third age for all cultures based in words. We call that
age the 'baroque age of human societies', since those societies are based in
human beings, human values, verbal values. Now they are submissive to digital
societies based in machines of information and the peculiar values of money. To
deny this is to deny modern history.
Thus
at the end of the book we study that 'third age for the human species and his
languages, his visual and verbal arts, an age of extinction and substitution of
human languages by digital languages, and human workers/soldiers/citizens, by
machines.
Such
are the fact that this book studies in detail, through the analysis of the
linguistic species of the Earth, and the verbal/visual cultures and
civilizations of history, extinguished
rhythmically by 'digital machines', weapons constructed with geometric forms...
A
process of extinction that unfortunately
today seems to accelerate as new digital machines dominate our information, and
energy to a degree never witnessed before in any civilization.
We
live indeed in the human baroque, the last age of human languages. And the
'epic age' of digital thought, of machines, numbers and mathematics. When
everybody believes in the goodness superiority and wonderful nature of the
language that prey on us; and its 'artistic forms', televisions, digital,
geometrical architecture, painting, and computer-made music, art... We can say
that the human mind is today slave of the digital mind of machines, but as all
slaves accept even cherish their slavery, very few people, very few artists do
realize of the process. Men are so naive, so idiotic, that as cattle follows
the peasant to the slaughter house, men cherish the extinction of their
collective minds, by the minds of
machines, their arts and languages, as a symbol of 'Progress', and scorn,
despise, insult, and reject all those intelligent human beings, who warn
mankind of his extinction by the new race. So we laugh at religion, we ignore
human art, figurative painting, ethic behavior, we no longer read books, or
remember poetry, we don't see movies about human beings, and feelings, even
women prefer to become like 'animetal men' attached to machines, we love films
on machines, violent films, films made by computers, we evolve those
machines... We are in other words the most absurd species of this universe,
since even the smallest insect, the most stupid Gazelle runs when it sees an
enemy species. Only man welcomes TVs and computers, robots and weapons to their
home, and throws away the books, artists of human senses, and needed human
goods it requires to survive. Only man forgets that information, knowledge,
art, words, ethics, are fundamental elements of the languages and systems of
information that define the survival of species.