Reality does not care about reality

meika loofs samorzewski

(Some pointers on a non-relativistic position on worlding)

Worlding (to world with a self, to self with a world) describes what we do as we live among others.

  • There is a great deal of slippage between the terms reality and the world.
  • This is an attempt at clarification.

Worlding/selfing arose in evolution, in a reality before we got here. But evolution does not care about what we produce with the worlding urge, just as it does not care about our recipes, nor our guest lists for dinner, it only ‘cares’ that we try… —something to answer our hunger. The rest is up to us.

  • Worlding answers a hunger-like urge to 'clothe' the body hunger fills.

Evolution does not care about 'morality' (starting with that because I have said it before) as it is an investment a group of non-related kin develops through time. Nor does evolution are about any other derivative we create with/within the urge to world, merely that we get up and bother, or, that we get bothered.

Corollaries of this then include:

  • Reality does not care about reality.
  • Reality does not care about whether we care about reality or not.

However when we care it is the world we care about. We create the world by our care. When we worry about reality we are still worrying about the world, or at the very least worrying about reality from within the world (Plato's cave in effect).

  • Reality does not care whether we worry or care about the world or not.
  • We cannot make reality care. (This is a new reality principle, if primary/prior to the reality principle we encounter as small children: of there being other people in the world— ­the collapse of narcissism)
  • If we care about reality then reality still will not care about our care.
  • Our care is our responsibility. We do that work in the world.

Somewhere along the lines of our evolution we began to care and it arose somehow out of not caring. We must take responsibility for this and not shove it off onto some idol we make and then throw, with our prayers, into the gap of our understanding between the world we self and whatever is left of reality. This also rules out nihilism. (Beliefs are bad worlding.)

  • As time allows, as history shows, reality shrinks as the world increases so we must take responsibility for caring about things.
    • (time is a function of measures of complexity which allow a record of that changingness -- taphonomy)

It is up to us to care about how we care, and in finding that out we will find out what is the ethical response to morality.

 

List of posts on worlding with reality can be found here.