what's the difference
between,
clairvoyance
and
telepresence?
slim...
cyberpunk has asked us what it is to be human
and what it is to be something else
because to understand how to be something else
is the same as understanding how to be ourselves,
if we are the same, or mostly the same, so
are we? the same? (mostly?)
what's the difference
between
impossible division
and
impossible connection?
the difference
between
the fish
who learned
to walk
the land
and the mammal
who learned
to breathe the air
through the water?
the closest we can come
to that experience outside the self
(rather than just an altered perceptive experience)
is through this headset
monitor
metal cage
to project the human perspective, the human experience
unto electricity
but unlike the way this electronic humanity has been depicted
in "fiction" that was supposedly reflecting "science"
we would not be creating something new or different
we would merely be changing ourselves
incorporating technology directly into our existence
bringing it in like love, allowing it to invade us,
consume us, and occupy a part of us
and we will breathe in the connection
and we will not call ourselves "robots" as if we were different,
because the only difference between us and the old humanity
is that we are able to find
a perfect
infinite
unity
among ourselves
the will of the self
yields
to the will of the collective
we don't need to feel
anymore
we don't need this poetry, this
new perspective
the pressure of language
we understand, that
the fact that we were ever anything
means
that we are always everything
but even though a human
may never experience this oneness
they should still try to understand
that no matter how lost they might feel
there is no such thing as alone
what's the difference
between
infinity
and
eternity?