I hear from a lot of lesbians and pansexuals say that when they see someone, they don’t know whether they’re attracted to that person or they want to look like that person.
Most of my life I externalized embodied desires because I am a trans lesbian. Thus, I’ve come to a very different perspective on this same phenomena.
My aesthetic preferences are based off of my philosophical standpoints around optimization. If something blesses its environment, it’s simply more efficient if it has more surface area with which it can interact with reality.
This ties into my views on growth. There’s no endpoint where things are perfect. At each stage of development the new tools promote the creation/discovery of even greater tools. A tool is the most effective when it’s fully integrated into the self with no levels of translation in between consciousness and action. Because of this, it’s most effective when all tools are part of the self.
Additionally, tools achieve greater impact when they symbiotically function with other tools. The more ways a tool can bypass its limitations, the more situations that it can bless. This is why I find it more beneficial to have many tools or omni-tools than just a single omni-tool. There is extra information generated by their symbiosis than by having any individual tool on its own.
These factors combine into my aesthetic preference for size. This manifests for humans as powerful layers of muscle covered with thick layers of fat wrapped up in a highly expressive exterior. The reason for this specificity is that hard and sharp shapes have the greatest chance to generate damage. In contrast a soft exterior with the capability to use power precisely has the most default positive interaction state and the greatest level of variability in potential interactions.
I believe that if tools are useful, they should be available to everyone who desires them. Since this toolset when optimized is what I view to be most effective, I desire it for myself and for others. I don’t have divide aesthetics as I view it as part of tools. I love myself enough that I realize I deserve the tools, and I love everyone else enough to realize that they deserve the tools as well.
The Ingredients of Going Beyond Humanity
As with all forms of growth, I believe humanity has given us the potential to access greater bodies moving forward.
The next step is to integrate structural advancements from 4 of the most capable varieties of biological life on this planet: Mycorrhizal Fungi, Cephalopods, Daphnia and finally Cancer.
Mycorrhizal fungi are one of the most influential species on this planet. They symbiotically interact with plants and are much more skilled at integrating minerals to share with their host. They form a vast network connecting many plants together, this not only allows the fungi to share resources it gains from the earth with plants, but allows plants to help other plants in the network. This means it not only contributes physical resources of its own, but it gives plants which are otherwise separate to help each other grow and flourish.
Cephalopods are the family of life that include squids, octopuses and cuttlefish. They are the most physically expressive species, being able to manipulate their shape, color, texture and adjust these things quickly enough to have animated textural shifts. The lack of a rigid skeletal structure allows them to change shapes wildly, while chromatophores give them the capability to change colors with incredible precision. Together this gives them a physical capability to express far beyond our current levels while removing structural limitations on how that functions.
There are a form of Daphnia that eat Sphaerocytsis Schroeter. Instead of digestion destroying them, it actually helps these tiny phytoplankton grow into their next stage of life as I referenced in my article on Trauma and Growth. This means that their interactions on the metabolic level generate blessings for their environment instead of destructively transforming whatever enters them.
Many may wonder how something as toxically expressed as cancer could be in a group of things that can help consciousness grow to the next level. I find cancer to be an expression of unbridled growth, not terribly different from humans. There continues to be more cancer and humans with wildly negative repercussions for the world. Unbridled growth is only destructive when it doesn’t interact favorably with the system it’s built on. Instead of finding ways to destroy cancer, it’s wildly better for our world to find ways to harness its power. We need to shift its growth and our own to bless our environment.
Cancer is remarkable for a lot of reasons. It can spread through reproduction, just like many other forms of life. It has an additional way to reproduce however, carcinogens generate cancer without being cancer themselves. This is a trait that doesn’t seem to be shared by other biological life. Cancer is the simplest form of a repeating pattern, it simply duplicates over and over. Evolution is also a pattern that repeats, but repeats with variation that adapts to its environment.
Harnessing this power of repetition, it’s far more effective for us to find out how to make a cancer that fills roles that help the body instead of destroying it. Integrating its study with the study of stem cells seems like a very ideal place to start on understanding how to make a form of symbiote that will continuously fill whatever roles the body needs. This requires clear analysis about how to improve the functioning of the body, and this is where humans come into the picture.
Bringing Biology Together
Integrating mycorrhizal fungi, we need to be a symbiotic bridge that shares resources that we’re more effective at producing. Additionally we must enable symbiosis between disparate beings that otherwise couldn’t interact, or could only interact negatively.
Integrating Cephalopods, we must have adaptable and expressive structuring. In order to most optimally interface with something, you need to be able to communicate with it. Having incredibly in depth ways to communicate in an embodied way is necessary for being able to form healthy networks. Fluid forms allow actions to be customized to situation more precisely.
Integrating Daphnia, we need to insure that our metabolism generates a byproduct of growth. If we want to continue to grow, we need to insure that what we eat is blessed by that instead of destroyed by it or we will come to a point of starvation and genocide.
Integrating Cancer, we must embrace life within us. Being able to continually produce what we need to thrive in an embodied way.
Finally humans… As remarkable as these other species are, our ability to use tools and consciousness in a unique and powerful way is a necessity to bring this all together as a more complete expression of consciousness.
May all consciousness have access to and awareness of all the tools it could possibly desire.
— Isicera Embecibiotica Dew