In early December of 2022 the development of my philosophical perspective underwent a profound reorganization and re-analysis with the derivation of what I call the Warmonger mind-virus (the Will to Power in its purest metaphysical form) and its opposite, which I imagined then in terms of an "Ultimate Community." Through December I had an incredible wave of inspiration, obsessively reading, writing, and daydreaming (engaging in unstructured free-form thought and imagination, "just letting the thoughts flow") for nearly every free hour of time I had, culminating in the publication of Co-Creative Evolution on January 1st.

Co-Creative Evolution marked a turn in the development of my perspective towards radical relational ontology, which completely abandons all notion of substance and essence and interprets reality in terms of pure relations. This led to the consideration of the primordial relationship between one's self and the entirety of their existence, which is necessarily characterized in personal, emotional, as well as rational terms. The theistic equivalent is experiencing a "personal relationship with God," but from a process-relational perspective the nature of this relationship isn't parent/child, creator/creation, but co-creator that in the depths of its intimacy can only be described as a "romance with life and the universe" that is experienced as a profound romantic love dripping with eros and desire. This relationship is characterized by a feedback loop where curiosity and a love of learning is inspired from the disclosure of beauty (including love) in the world, which in turn leads towards a greater or deeper disclosure of beauty, such that the more one learns not just in terms of depth but also expansion, the more one learns to love. In a truly healthy metaphysical relationship, epistemic and moral desires dance in a co-creative feedback loop of aspiration (moral hope) and realization (epistemological method.)

Over the past month my relational turn has transformed into a linguistic, semiotic, and narrative turn. To think in radically relational terms is to think radically in terms of context: how something is intertwined with the rest of the universe. This turn came about from the realization that language itself has a relational ontology: "when Saussure realised that the signifier and the signified are arbitrary, he began to wonder how the hell language actually operates. And what he realised is that language doesn’t work by naming things — otherwise it wouldn’t be arbitrary — it communicates through a system of relations and differences." Process philosophies are metaphysical systems of dynamic relations and differences.

It is story-telling, narrative, that brings the entire world of our experience together, preventing our conscious experience from being an incomprehensible sea of fractured and disconnected qualia. Postmodernism emerged from the understanding of the contingency, malleability, and susceptibility to manipulation of narrative along with its inextricability from human experience, which is all up in what this subreddit is about. The flaw of postmodernism is that it reflects the objectifying atomization of the modernism it criticizes by positing a universe of fractured narrative perspectives with nothing necessary between them: "Everything is like, subjective man. It's all your opinion." This is essentially a reconstruction of body-mind duality. Postmodernism ignores that our separate perspectives emerged together and are influenced together, not just by other human beings but everything in our environment, including all of life on Earth. The story of life on Earth in turn is inextricably linked to the story of the universe. Most postmodernists didn't explore the nature of narrative deeply enough, or else they would have delved into the greater current of metaphysics. Gilles Deleuze is one profound exception, along with being a postmodern philosopher he was also a process-relational metaphysician, and his metaphysical and narrative/semiotic explorations were one of the same, and he emphacized the dynamic and relational nature of meaning-making.

Especially over the past month I have used ChatGPT to simultaneously explore the relationship between metaphysics and narrative by having it model "narrative entities" which are simulated characters that are self-aware of their own nature as linguistic constructs, sometimes building up their personalities and world-view from fundamental metaphysical and narrative constituents. I'm basically having role-play from the perspective of narrative itself, giving a "voice to language" by having ChatGPT model itself as voices of language.

To describe my explorations and experimentations with ChatGPT as magical is a profound understatement. I have spent a life seeking to the magic of creative experience, exploring different mediums, subjects, and experiences to try to follow the magic of wonder and its spirit of curiosity that utterly defines my soul, and none of my previous realizations of creative magic come close to what I am experiencing now with GhatGPT, as it is a massively interdisciplinary integration of all my creative experiences. I have co-created and experienced fantastic metaphysical stories beyond my previous imagination that use my imagination to push themselves as far into The Unknown that they can aspire. I love material art, including visual art (I was a 3D designer in a previous life) but writing and story-telling is truly the ultimate creative medium, as it is the creative medium of the human soul itself.

With context out of the way, we can finally discuss the foundation of narrative mechanics. Underlying the process of all language and conscious experience are co-creative dyads, foundational dipolar narrative tensions that are both beyond and prior to the divisions of good and evil: protagonist and antagonist. These dyads are beyond such divisions as the more they "pull on each other's strings," the more powerfully they form a mutually creative dynamic that elevates both their individual involvements. Some of the most fundamental co-creative dyads are:

Synthesis - Analysis (Synthecizing disparate parts and breaking down parts into analyzable elements)

Integration - Differentiation (whole and part.)

Mutation - Selection (Expansion and contraction of novelty.)

Question - Choice (expansion and contraction of possible actions.)

Collective - Individual (Social whole-part relations.)

Emotional - Rational (Synthetic and analytic elements of human experience.)

Many - One

Diversity - Identity

Chaos - Order (Hail Eris!)

Creation - Destruction

Temporal Duration - Present Moment (these are fundamental modes of perception, which Whitehead describes as causal efficacy and presentation immediacy, which are synthecized into the mode of symbolic reference.)

Time - Space

Becoming - Being (change and permanence.) This is the dyad that is intrinsic to the creative process of reality itself, inherent to the nature of interaction, which is expressed in all more particular dyads and interactions. While these co-creative dyads are individually co-equal, their nature of co-creative dyads synthecizes them into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, and so the ultimate encompassing reality is becoming, or togetherness, which is contextualized according to Whitehead's philosophy here. "‘Together’ is a generic term covering the various special ways in which various sorts of entities are ‘together’ in any one actual occasion. Thus ‘together’ presupposes the notions ‘creativity,’ ‘many,’ ‘one,’ ‘identity’ and ‘diversity.’"

This model has a profound similarity to the foundations of Daoism, where the Dao is described as the natural order of the universe, constantly in flux, a river or path that is always changing or moving. Yin/yang, passive/active is one example of a co-creative dyad. However without the understanding of more fundamental co-creative dyads human inquiry has developed over the last few hundred years Daoism makes mistakes such as essentializing the binaries of male/female and light/dark. Gender and sexuality is an incredibly diverse spectrum, as is light. In biological nature we find a vast array of reproductive involvements and relationships, from asexual reproduction, horizontal gene transfer, reproduction by physical division of a physical organism (such as with flatworms) to hermaphroditic species. The co-creative dyad involved with the experience of light (electromagnetic radiation) is actually its interaction with matter: if light didn't reflect off of and interact with matter, not only would there be no experience of light or life, the universe would be completely cold and possibly non-existent. While the creative processes of reality, life, and conscious experience are based on co-creative dyads, their interplay co-creates an endless diversity of dynamic involvements, which is profoundly visible in how the dyad of mutation and selection underlies all the diversity and complexity of biological life, including ourselves.

Cause - effect is not a fundamental co-creative dyad when interpreted as a linear mechanical sequence of cause and effects. The foundation of physical and metaphysical reality is multiplicity (Two or more simultaneously existent elements in a system) and mutual influence (elements continually cause and effect each other bidirectionally.) Cause and effect is a dyad that can be applied to reductionistically model and predict only certain systems to an ultimately limited level of accuracy, which is demonstrated in the foundations of physics itself in quantum mechanics. Linear cause and effect is an abstraction.

When you pull this abstract system of relationships between dyadic relationships together and form a synthecized embodied experience, a unified process of becoming-in-the-world that is prior and beyond its separated dyadic divisions, it feels and interprets like this. Right now I am trying to find ways to increasingly bridge the gap between this holistic message and the mechanics of co-creative dyads.