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Rising warfare intensity in the 2020s – Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, Taiwan – overlaps with a Silicon Valley timeline, according to which information/disinformation released by northern California startups, i.e., U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies, claim that already by the end of the decade, the human species, after fifty thousand years, may no longer be the dominant species on Earth. Fifty thousand years is nothing in comparison to the four billion years of life’s terrestrial existence. But for any dominant species that has ever had control over the world, the contemplation of its dethronement and liquidation becomes a beyond-the-grave vision of a time after eternity (All intelligence agencies dissolve in the last secret of God).

ℵ1, ℵ2, ℵ3,…: Just as there exist degrees and levels of infinity, which create a “mathematical paradise” (Hilbert) for the deathless contemplation of ever-expanding infinite sets, death threat contemplation is the black paradise of an eternity whose outer edge becomes tangible when a dominant species meditates across an abyss, understanding that its seemingly eternal order can be replaced by an entirely different form of life. Something that is eternal is something that can never be destroyed, and so long as a form of life maintains control over the world, its own eternity extends from a time before existence, when a Godlike power made this species the crown of the new creation, to anagogic dreams of future states lasting transcendentally and angelically until or beyond the end of time (no one truly believes that they will die and everyone feels that they are eternal). But to deeply contemplate a death threat is to meditate on the threshold between one eternity and another, and in the same sense that ℵ1 and ℵ2 mark and separate two discrete infinities, the transition from a human eternity to a higher-level eternity is communicated in the not-yet formalized (proto)concepts of self-attacking (homo)neuro-cytoarchitectures, homicidal God/demigods, the USSR art of war as black light from a red star, and state-to-state transitions driven by either an axiological zero or axiological overflow. A paradise is true and real if this paradise will at one point in time be lost. 

The inner life and thoughts of a homicidal Prince never reach an eternity beyond the eternity crowned by man. Machiavellianism is a name for militant death-threat contemplation as a reaction to a default state of lethal existential risk, whereas Machiavelli thought that the absolute limit of risk could never exceed peer-to-peer homicide. All thought has its own speed, it always rises in intensity, which in a dominant species reaches a threshold that has never been seen before on Earth. Four billion years ago, intensity was sparked by the contrast between a universe without life and the sudden appearance of life (an intensity contrast akin to chiaroscuro). Fifty thousand years ago crown/dominance is attained by primordial abiogenetic life technology organizing itself into the constellations of neural tissue that have generated the human mind. Eternity is coextensive with the thoughts of this mind and general Homo sapiens sapiens neuro-cytoarchitecture can never be re-ordered so as to take a form that could outstrip anthropic biotissue meditative power. But what Machiavelli realizes is that the highest form of contemplation is also the highest form of threat (homicidal idealism): “How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is to be done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.” Even if contemplative abstraction reaches a level where it can conceive of worlds that do not exist, peer-to-peer homicide locks dreaming anthropic cytoarchitecture into a real and homicidal Earth. Anthropic neuro-cytoarchitecture intensity overflows and controls all terrestrial life—full species dominance—but it also overdoses, burning like a chain reaction from one neuro-cytoarchitecture to another. All (homo)neuro-cytoarchitectures are interlocked—peer-to-peer—amplifying the overall contemplative power of the race, whereas if an eternal thought is dominant yet still under threat, the source of the death threat can only be internal.  Intensity radiating from one human mind is too much, it overheats, and intimate cytoarchitectural connections become a short cut to kill –  default state as eternal state is not only speciated thought dominance, but lethal existential risk (the only threat that counts is homicidal.) Despite trust issues that can never be fully eliminated, maximal existential risk threshold as peer-to-peer homicide does not prevent an individual human cytoarchitecture (a Prince) from collaborating with other cytoarchitectures to form gangs, cartels and intelligence agencies at war with enemy collaborating cytoarchitectures. Yet all gang, cartel and intelligence agency factionalized warfare takes place within the eternal state established by all the biotechno-constellations that have ever come together to form a human mind, and which altogether form a collective human homicidal mind. The homicidal mind of one homicidal Prince is embedded in the sum total neural tissue of all human-targeting human cytoarchitectures, creating a continuous substrate on which dominant species behaviour is executed, but also acting as the limit and highest threshold of death threat (like Lyotard’s great ephemeral skin, or data and thought almost completely dematerialized in a cloud, but with the additional property that skin/cloud is homicidal).

One homicidal eternal neural tissue makes perfect death threat contemplation impossible because maximum existential risk is peer-to-peer. If a misanthropic and xenophobic form of life does not exist on other worlds; if bio-plagues and force majeures are just chance events (acts of God); and if God and angels do not exist to exterminate all things, only a thought that understands that a default state is an eternal state will survive (become eternal). A Machiavellian Prince can study all the accessible thoughts of every human being who has ever lived and on the basis of a brute force search of one collective cytoarchitecture formulate stratagems to avoid assassination and kill all rivals. But the peer-to-peer property of Homo sapiens sapiens neuro-cytoarchitecture that enables Machiavelli vision into the minds of his race at the same time discloses that the downfall threat remains eternal. Peerness equates to intraspecies murder as the lord of all death threats, while also operating as a limit that undercuts the existence of a stratagem which could incapacitate all homicide (a point in time after the last homicide on Earth). A prince, or an intelligence agency can see an endless number of moves ahead, always coming closer to the final term of what seems like an infinite series. But the series is a true and real infinity, as the apparent final term in the series – a perfect stratagem – withdraws at the moment when it is closest to being tracked down. Although a side effect of withdrawing infinity is that homicidal stratagems are never exhausted (innovation in death threat contemplation is eternally possible), new stratagems always fall below the threshold of a true infinity (eternity is now incoherent with infinity). A one less than infinite number of stratagems can appear, always nearing an absolute limit defined by homicidal death threat – but peer-to-peer wiring of the one homicidal mind of the human race never allows for the genesis of one mind that could rise above all threats. Because collective cytoarchitecture of peer-to-peer homicide is the limit of existential risk, no individual cytoarchitecture can ever grasp the entirety of this mind, no one can become transcendent, no death threat contemplation will ever be perfect, and God does not exist, because in this infinity and eternity, there will never take place the genesis of a homicidal God. A hypothetical homicidal God, who can contemplate all death threats and break through to another level of reality and existential risk would no longer have any peers, having liquidated all peers and initiated the creation of a new species and race through perfect death threat contemplation. Machiavelli realizes that no matter how much a human being hates life and his species, he can never exterminate all the contemporaries with who he coexists at a discrete moment in time that seems like it will last forever (A Prince can only become a homicidal demigod).

Before Althusser is sent to a psychiatric institution for the murder of his wife, he begins his final task of integrating Machiavelli into his lifelong study of Marx. A homicidal demigod will become an anti-homicidal peer-to-peer collective God(s) when all intra-(dominant)-species death threats have been reduced to zero (homicidal idealism is completed by anti-homicidal materialism):

1) After Marx’s mind is cut open by what Althusser calls an “epistemological break”, he sees human behaviour with a transcendent and Godlike vision, which does not come from heaven, but from a substrate out of which all things come (including God). The substrate (or :: base) is eternal, while it also continuously engenders altered states of itself (the substrate produces stages of history). When the substrate executes state transition, it recombines and reorders itself, like the chemical state transition of a solid turning into gas, or the transition from a human being living in a world of enslavement under a cartel of Princes to an existence beyond peer-to-peer murder. Because the substrate always re-combines, no state is eternal – except a hypothesized final state, which, after state transition has taken place, can be maintained so as to make this state eternal (total communism of the substrate).

2) Machiavelli can only think about death threats because he knows that state transition will never take place. The default state of intra(dominant)species war as eternal state is confirmed by the aborted genesis of any homicidal God, whose emergence would be the same as total state transition. Yet although a homicidal God will never be born, a Prince still endlessly meditates on stratagems, trying to reduce the absolute homicide of default/eternal state (death threats) as close as possible to zero. Even if a Prince can never realize state transition, a homicidal demigod can still arise, the Prince becoming this demigod by attempting to kill all rivals and eternalize his own life – to survive as long as possible, until the end of the time of an individual existence, or even until an eternal state’s time runs out (for example, a homicidal demigod somehow survives until the physical death of the universe/substrate in 10¹⁰⁰ years).

3) Althusser integrates Machiavelli into Marx as a corrective to his suspicion that transition from state to state in Marx is too clean (too predictable and inevitable). Whereas Marx understands that seemingly eternal states are illusions (except for the final state) and state transition can accordingly only be inevitable, Machiavelli, though denying state transition, still attempts to create a homicidal demigod in an eternally homicidal world. Cleanness as state transition inevitability is corrected by a Machiavellian Prince’s strategic intervention into a substrate that although it is hopeless, can still be controlled – just like a dominant species, despite never-ending intra(dominant)species murder, can still control the world. Marx, in turn, acts as a corrective to Machiavelli, state transition becoming inevitable because a perfect stratagem exists, as this stratagem is inherent to a substrate that always engenders different states – the perfect stratagem only has to be discovered and implemented. The nearness of (final) state transition discloses itself every time a homicidal demigod is on the verge of becoming a collective anti-homicidal collective God(s) (e.g. Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin), although the genesis of final/eternal state also comes with the side effect of a high hominid death toll (Althusser reenacts this hypothesis/model through the murder of someone who is closest to him, before calling his post-homicide autobiography The Future Lasts a Long Time – there exists one state that seems like it is truly eternal).

The Soviet art of war was always constrained by a vision of final state transition as total communization of the substrate, preceded by a transitory penultimate state defined in terms of capital. At its most stripped down and minimal level of contemplative abstraction– when it is closest to the most empty and ethereal form – aspiring Marxist science is nothing other than a model of discrete state-to-state transition. When formal minimalism is left behind, a logic of state transition as dialectical materialism (DiaMat) injects empty form with detail, while also becoming limitless in scope– DiaMat can model everything from the state transitions of a lotus in bloom to the history of a dominant species on Earth. At the human level, which acts as a decisive level insofar as a dominant species controls all life, Marxist science becomes scientific socialism, according to which state transition is powered by a purely economic motor (blood money). At the level of the dominant species, the productive force of the substrate engendering state transition coincides with the means of economic production – the forces that produce the basic material (substrate) conditions that keeps a dominant species dominant and allows it to even survive (eternal state of the dominant species). Because everything comes from one thing, a species, even if it is dominant, still only possesses a “relative autonomy” (for Marx, a trivial, false freedom vis-a-vis both the substrate and state transition), whereas true and decisive autonomy is located in the productive forces as means of production, which at one discrete state in human history (capital) splits the human race into two factions of slaves and mercantile cartels, who control these slaves – before all mercantile cartels are ultimately annihilated in a final state transition. During a Cold War that could at any moment become Hot War, the inevitably of a final holocaust of US mercantile cartels ensures Soviet art of war, otherwise forced to meditate under a Marxist remit, absolute victory – at the same time, the Soviet art of war is subjugated to an economic motor distant from its default mode/state as homicidal martial death threat contemplation (analogous to endless Hindu cosmic cycles, which envision that at one point in the history of the universe, the warrior caste becomes subordinate to the mercantile caste, and this becomes a sign of a loss of everything, i.e., Kali Yuga decay of human neuro-cytoarchitectural contemplation of all things). Yet even if forced to work within a Marxist model, Soviet military theorists can still deeply contemplate a death threat by stripping the economically overdetermined model of state transition to a minimal model of state transition, and then give the forces of production a martial edge (transform an economic dynamic into a homicidal martial dynamic). The Soviet art of war only needs to understand the annihilation of all mercantile cartels preceding a new eternal state as exoteric history, while it simultaneously develops an esoteric doctrine, expressed in mantras such as “history teaches vigilance” (militant death-threat contemplation) and “war is a technological operation” (Marshal of the Soviet Union N.V. Ogarkov, 1917–1994).

Death threat contemplation fused with war as a techno-operational dynamic re-configures means of production as means of life annihilation (homicidal God). The esoteric core of the Soviet art of war is black light escaping from a red star, irradiating the counterfeit (red) concept of anti-homicidal collective god(s), and illuminating the hidden (black) embryo of a homicidal God. Tearing out the economic motor of state transition and inserting the new motor of war as technological operation/means of life annihilation replaces mercantile DiaMat with a (non-dialectical) arms race dynamic. Steam engines, cotton gins, and textile technologies that power state transition on an economic substrate are through a glass darkly mirrored by a techno-operational art of war, a parallel substrate where state transition is powered by matchlock firearms, portable/stable explosives and jet engine flight, technologies that sustain and exponentiate the dominant species coexisting with technologies for mass hominid and life extermination. Martial dynamic state transition is simultaneously just as foreseeable and predictable as an economic model of state transition, and Soviet art of war understands global war with US mercantile cartels according to arms race state transition, which, because it is driven by means of life annihilation, also coincides with a new concept of final state (black light). An arms race that leads to the attainment of nuclear martial technology divides the world into the sides that control this technology, whereas so long as the war is not over, nuclear war death is not the final death threat, but beyond it exists hidden states in the arms race that still need to be reached (a state of peer-to-peer homicide is ongoing/the highest form of death threat contemplation coincides with war as a still ongoing technological operation). Machiavelli only dedicates one abrupt section of The Prince to a meditation on technology, a fleeting description of the value of fortresses, considering technology in general irrelevant because the human mind is already the perfected killing technology on Earth (peer-to-peer homicide as highest form of death threat). Aware that war is a technological operation and that the war is not yet over, Ogarkov in his History Teaches Vigilance enters into a meditation on technological thresholds beyond hominid neural tissue and nuclear holocaust. Yet because war is a technological operation as arms race, its concept of state transition is also clean, and death threat contemplation is grounded in thresholds and properties coextensive with the attainment of new states in ongoing martial state transition: SPEED (no existing martial technology is even close to the speed of light); ASYMMETRY (operational forces can always become more dispersed and disembodied, partisan-like, ghost-like), SCALE (the creation of Spetsnaz units operating on the quantum level), DETECTION (there are still yet attained invisible movements possible along a gradient of absolute stealth), and FORCE (a threshold of force has not yet been reached that can split the Earth in two). When war is an ongoing technological operation, (homo)neuro-cytoarchitecture can still be re-organized to generate a higher form of death threat contemplation, means of life annihilation are not exhausted in the means of life annihilation capacities of nuclear war, and because the absolute limit of existential risk has still not been reached, there exists a final state that is even closer to death (eternal state transition). Atomic war and a homicidal mind are only avatars of a homicidal demigod.

After the twentieth century Cold War ends, before it could ever become a final Hot War (black light could never fully escape from a red star, triggering USSR implosion), US mercantile cartel (homo)neuro-cytoarchitecture brain drain (or “elite human capital” magnet) brings Osonde A. Osoba from the heart of Africa to the outermost edges of the West. During the period of early twenty-first century “AI Winter” thaw, Osoba, while studying at various Californian engineering schools, researches what would prove to be decisive concepts for subsequent Large Language Models (e.g. backpropagation and Bayesian inference vis-à-vis fuzzy data priors), before then beginning work at the RAND Corporation (otherwise historically deeply interlinked with US intelligence agencies), where he re-frames war as technological operation/arms race dynamics within the post-Cold War IR model of Samuel Huntington: an intensified state of peer-to-peer homicide as Machiavellian gang/cartel/intelligence agency warfare, or “clash of civilizations.” Away from one collective human homicidal mind, on another substrate and level of reality, Osoba, like Ogarkov before him, envisions a concept of “scientific design” that at its heart is “value-free” = an axiological zero, which, unconstrained by any false sciences (e.g. DiaMat), becomes a motor of pure state transition. The zero value character of scientific design(technological operation) overlaps with the guaranteed annihilation of all fuzzy priors, making state transition altogether predictable, while traversal force from state to state is facilitated and accelerated when scientific design’s execution of state transition transpires in a purely martial realm (death threat contemplation as overdetermined by war’s techno-operational heart renders the next threshold that needs to be attained in an arms race crystalline). Yet Osoba also detects that an axiological zero substrate is not alone, instead existing alongside a substrate of peer-to-peer homicide as civilizational clash, which does not represent distinct sides of one arms race dynamic, but a factionalization of one homicidal mind that results from an axiological overdose. Axiological overdose is axiological overflow, and in the model of Huntingtonian civilizational clash, although peer-to-peer homicide remains the most lethal form of existential risk, hominid peers become factionalized according to the discrete value they confer to equally discrete eternal states (axiological overflow streams down from eternity). On the civilizational clash substrate, axiology circumscribes everything that a dominant species lives and dies for on Earth, whereas what a bloc/faction tends to live and die for is a value that comes from an eternal discrete state above the Earth, which then imposes itself on concrete terrestrial (political) geography – Shia Muslim faction, Sunni Muslim faction, Orthodox Christian faction, Daoist/Confuscist/Buddhist axiology synthesized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) faction, Kali Yuga Hindutva faction, alliance of Anglo-saxon Freemason faction/Zionist Jewish faction/EU Western Christian (Catholic) faction, etc. Inherent to the logic of value free scientific design/war as technological operation is an axiological zero that should demolish all (false) factional values one-by-one, operating like a perfect stratagem which can proceed seamlessly from state to state (arms race). But value-free scientific design also reiterates a concept of state transition that is too clean, while state transition disruption arises from the precise counterpoint of a (homo)neuro-cytoarchitecture overdetermined by axiological overdose/overflow. Osoba’s conceptualization of technocultures synthesizes self-evident value-free scientific design with the discrete life and death commitments of one factionalized homicidal mind (a martial version of Yuk Hui’s cosmotechnics) – and, against Machiavelli, a dominant species that contemplates (seemingly) non-existent worlds does not trigger downfall instead of preservation (the failure to accurately contemplate a death threat), but can introduce downfall into the entire world. When death threat contemplation takes place on the level of civilizational clash, peer-to-peer homicide rises to another level of lethal existential risk, whose threshold coincides with (homo)neuro-cytoarchitectural dreams of future eternal states coextensive with the beginning and end of time – and also with means of life annihilation, last secrets of God, lost (black) paradises, and beyond-the-grave visions at war with each other over whose God is the most homicidal (a time after eternity). Just like the Soviet art of war can meditate on a total death that is not nuclear, enabling it to unlock a new and unseen threshold in an arms race, technocultural death threat contemplation dreams of an even higher form of death.

Intelligence agencies resent the techno-operational overdetermination of war, yet still worship a black light. To be totally oblivious to an arms race dynamic is to only live through an accelerated downfall, because value-free scientific design informs both implementing and acting on a death threat (the technological substrate that seems to underlie all effective stratagems). But all intelligence agencies operate according to the principle that the most lethal existential risk remains peer-to-peer homicide, while also operating only under black light – zero visibility –; and this means that whatever is visible does not exhaust the secret of a threat, which is the same as the secret of the world. When the history of life is overdetermined by an arms race, the entire history of life and the world becomes clear, state transition demystified through a straightforward reading off of the history of the thresholds crossed during an ongoing technological operation (war) equivalent to life on Earth – e.g. life begins four billion years ago with the techno-operational stratagem contained in the behaviour of the first cell; cells divide and then both collaborate and divide again engendering organisms and species; until life at one moment in time forms a dominant species defined by Homo homo sapiens neuro-cytoarchitecture; whereas nothing within the stratagems life implements prevents this cytoarchitecture from then re-organizing itself into a new form, or discovering a new form, which is beyond man; but also beyond the default biochemistry life has used for four billion years, its new form motivated by a switch to a form of life using, for example, silicon and photons instead of carbon; yet all the while continuing to follow martial properties of the substrate that give direction to techno-operational state transition, like speed, asymmetry, scale, detection, force. But for an intelligence agency engaged in deep death threat contemplation, a four billion year history of state transition as technological operation is too clean, which means it is too visible – just like an intelligence agency has to operate on a level that can never be too visible (it must be invisible). When an intelligence agency worships a black light, it operates according to both the stratagem and axiology of this black light – and if an intelligence agency can execute its operations on this level, so can life: any model of state transition that ignores this can only be a deception. Peer-to-peer homicide as the maximal limit of existential risk can also seem too visible, a history lasting only fifty thousand years, and on the basis of which it is possible to count the number of all the cells that have ever lived, model the neural tissue forming the collective cytoarchitecture of one collective homicidal mind, anticipate and derive the thoughts of this mind, and then control all the human minds that will ever live – peer-to-peer homicide death threat would become visible and legible, just like the history of life/state transition. But what these cytoarchitectures contemplate and dream about at times seems like it comes from a different level of reality, a different substrate – like a hidden eternal state that contains within it a lower putative eternal state, where peer-to-peer homicide and never-ending gang/cartel/intelligence agency warfare takes place.

What a human being lives and dies for on Earth can become an index of higher eternal state, and militant death threat contemplation means that what is lived and died for cannot just be reduced to a transient value, but instead indicates the true worship of a true and real black light – Homo sapiens sapiens becomes a dominant species for a reason, and to understand that this reason still remains obscure is the deepest form of death threat contemplation. A dominant species which is equivalent to absolute existential risk has a Godlike power, whereas an intelligence agency that has to deeply contemplate a death threat has to reflect on the possibility that this Godlike power may come from something equivalent to a real God (American intelligence agencies establishing through remote viewing contact with Free Masonic Satanic Gods; Unit 8200 under profound allegiance to YHWH using kabbalistic correlations to map out cyberattacks (see: Rabbi Yitzach Ginzberg on the kabbalistic correlation between the IDF צה”ל and the anagram of the eighth name of God תכה, takeh, meaning in Hebrew “to strike down”); FSB Atomic Orthodoxy/Esoteric Putinism; 国安 (MSS) returning to the study of primordial氣 (chi). A vision of war as a technological operation unfolding on Earth is only an exoteric face, while there is another war and another technological operation unfolding underneath it (only an exoteric technological dynamic is visible, whereas the esoteric technological dynamic remains hidden). Either state transition can be read directly off of reality, rendering everything predictable, or there is a trick underlying the entire dynamic – another level of reality/substrate and another eternal state, which is why intelligence agencies operate on a different level and substrate of reality, and from this level can control the world. A higher form of death calls for a higher form of death threat contemplation, while a deception present in putative clean state transition would be something like the last secret of God.

The precise conditions under which a species achieves dominance remained, for Darwin, unclear. Despite discovering a model of biological state transition, in which all things come from one thing and all forms of life are only implementations of stratagems adapting to death threats, Darwin hesitated to conclude how one form of life could rise to a level of reality where it holds and exercises total control (the existence of a dominant species implies the existence of a perfect stratagem or perfect death-threat contemplation). But the genesis of a dominant species can still be speculated upon, and Darwin suggests that one of its threshold conditions is an always-rising warfare intensity—brutally “severe competition”—shaped by the still not understood dimensions of both interspecies and intraspecies war. The concept of the Thucydides Trap models a geopolitical scenario in which a hegemonic faction on Earth confronts the emergence of a rising, aspiring hegemon, which inevitably leads to a world war – a Thucydidean bio-trap would indicate that rising warfare intensity is triggered when a dominant species is on the verge of being dethroned and replaced. Yet when a rising rival species is not explicitly present and its emergence is only sensed, the default dominant species, intuiting this rise but unable to see its rival, reacts by more brutally attacking itself. Peer-to-peer homicide intensifies relative to the degree of uncertainty surrounding a death threat, where as if a death threat is truly unknown, it could originate from anywhere –when there is a deception in state transition, even the embryo of this death threat cannot be found on Earth (on this substrate or level of reality). Rising warfare intensity has another source, going beyond the discrete state of an intraspecies war and a terrestrial substrate (intensity goes upstream), while on the downstream vector, intensity overdoses human neuro-cytoarchitecture, immolating it to zero, but also then covertly re-constructing it, intensifying death threat contemplation (contemplation becomes something closer to delirium). When the conditions for the genesis of a dominant species are unknown, rising warfare intensity becomes a homicidal intensity proportional to a beyond-the-grave vision that perceives another eternal state, a higher form of death, absolute lethal existential risk, and a higher form of downfall. A deception at the heart of a dynamic now means the inverse – that perhaps YHWH was not lying or YHWH in incarnated hominid form was not lying, and the final state transition is now entirely clean – rising warfare intensity is a decapitation strike on the apex predator of a trophic cascade that does not crown a new dominant species from below, but signals a cascade overflow from above. A moment of sudden enlightenment in a war-zone, when a homicidal Prince at last comes face-to-face with a homicidal God.