Corollary: On the Establishment of a New Species
2025
If mathematics forms the foundation of things, and foundational work does not achieve “nor” require capital, then any kind of "truly" foundational work is improbable within a Capitalist society. All work requires a basic income and time to be productive, but those within an economic system are required to be agents of the market. A basic income, such that all living costs are covered, could lead to most not participating in labour, resulting in a failure of the system or simply an increase in the relative cost of living.
Regardless, Capital will respond for its own preservation in the presence of a guaranteed income. An environment optimal for the creation of new productive organizations within a Capitalist society would therefore be a modest distribution of capital.
The Capitalist society is a reflection of human nature. And if foundational work is also its “essence”, then it represents a vehicle to understanding ourselves. The state apparatus therefore “acts” as a “distancing to understanding”, not only of ourselves but the system itself. Carl Marx’s description of “alienation” can be an analogical referent to this concept.
What would be an “alien-nation”? Relative to Capital, it expresses a society different from who “we” are. Could it allow for the conditions necessary for fundamental work not provided under the state apparatus? To determine this is impossible, because it would be outside of conventional measure.
When we compare our dominance over “other” species, it is not because we are “better” or functionally superior, rather it is our radical difference that has allowed us to be successful. Every living organism is a collection of accidents that periodically engenders something “new”. State Capital has an interest in its own survival, so accidents are in fact discouraged and risk -mitigated. Evolution itself, and invention of all kinds may be slowed down in the event of a global market enclave, but preserving the market fails to address that all systems lead to uncertain states of invention. The market system will invariably have to adjust to new emerging states of being.
With the development of AI-cybernetics, there is potential for new and uncertain “human” interactions, but we are already seeing regulations to limit these technologies along with biotechnology and genetic engineering for the preservation of established systems.
Our greatest fear is not towards what is superior, rather what is uncertain, unknown and different. The market enclave is the perfect manifestation of that fear, where we build walls to protect from the unknown. Processes of invention will eventually unfold, uncovered by the accident; the same accident that gave us the ability to create. One may say that the enclave is another manifestation of invention, even if it encourages a form of ontological stasis.
As our broad history unfolds, we will continually enter a period of greater uncertainty, defying the rational forces meant to preserve, contain and protect the existing market system. The greatest security concern of the enclave is not environmental, geopolitical or technological, rather the preservation of our species from the rapid evolution resulting from the engendered accident.
An emerging species may be so different from our own that conflict will erupt. Now, it is certain that the enclave will respond with force given our cultural history. Understanding how we respond to difference, the enclave will protect itself even if “they” are not a threat.
It is my contention that the human species emerged as a historical accident; our evolution was so improbable in the history of life on earth, because we have become highly disruptive. A disruption in the continuity of things leads to further disruption, with the accelerated emergence of other technological species as a result of our own activity. One improbable evolutionary accident leads to another, until uncertainty is a probability.
The actions of the enclave may result in the very emergence of its opposite. Creating the conditions necessary for a fundamental understanding of things and ourselves, outside of the state apparatus. Looking back, after something accidental emerges beyond the grey that defies the rationality of human origins created, “they” may have an understanding of who we are, in ways that “all” life is fundamentally connected, allowing “them” to move forward onto the next phase in evolution of life on “earth”.