governed by a weird kind of vitalist calculus, in which the petrification of knowledge can be countered by generating creative possibilities through algorithmic thought
The ‘Law of Creation’ is intended to express a dialectic that is inherent to ‘spontaneous generation’. It expresses the form of an ontological convulsion: each creative advance falls back into petrification or inertia, becoming its own opposite. But in turn, being is internally modified by spontaneity, tending to become its own opposite. Every act of creation is constrained by this fundamental dialectic. As living beings, Wronski and Warrain claim, we are caught in a gigantic, implicate order of determinations, our existence composed of multiple planes, physical, organic, psychic, each containing further, concentrated septenaries. Alexandrian says that Wronski ‘deduced one hundred and eighty systems of reality interlinked by prolongation and ramification’ from his ‘Law of Creation’. As rational living beings, we are able to penetrate the ‘virtuality’ of the real and elicit its lines of differentiation. In his ‘messianic’ meditations, Wronski imagines the daily lives of future rational beings as being governed by a weird kind of vitalist calculus, in which the petrification of knowledge itself (of Knowledge in Being and Being in Knowledge) can be countered by generating creative possibilities through algorithmic thought.
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Christian Kerslake in Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage:
The ‘Law of Creation’ is intended to express a dialectic that is inherent to ‘spontaneous generation’. It expresses the form of an ontological convulsion: each creative advance falls back into petrification or inertia, becoming its own opposite. But in turn, being is internally modified by spontaneity, tending to become its own opposite. Every act of creation is constrained by this fundamental dialectic. As living beings, Wronski and Warrain claim, we are caught in a gigantic, implicate order of determinations, our existence composed of multiple planes, physical, organic, psychic, each containing further, concentrated septenaries. Alexandrian says that Wronski ‘deduced one hundred and eighty systems of reality interlinked by prolongation and ramification’ from his ‘Law of Creation’. As rational living beings, we are able to penetrate the ‘virtuality’ of the real and elicit its lines of differentiation. In his ‘messianic’ meditations, Wronski imagines the daily lives of future rational beings as being governed by a weird kind of vitalist calculus, in which the petrification of knowledge itself (of Knowledge in Being and Being in Knowledge) can be countered by generating creative possibilities through algorithmic thought.
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