Ark Resolution: A Ten Point Dialectical Egoism Beginner's Guide

Here is a brief ten point guide of what to do with Dialectical Egoism with a fidelity to Occam's Razor, which is to say, explained as simply as possible. When you talk about Egoism in any form, dialectical or not, you can not help but to talk about a series of “ones,” which is to say, the one of the individual, the one of the concept, but as dialectics informs us, the “one” is always cut-through with gaps. (Don’t worry, the easy part is down below in list form.) I hope to make for you a very practical and easy-to-read explanation of a dialectically-informed cybernetics. What this means is that items of consciousness, which are known dialectically, are able to be steered by an agent vessel. Here there is already a level of obfuscation, so to do explain dialectically informed cybernetics, I will try to avoid the longer concepts in dialectical egoism through the analogy of “Ark Resolution.”

Ark Resolution

1) An Ark is what carries Noah’s animals in the bible, and in the same way, the Ark will carry the multiplicity of concepts of mind, including negative observations, positive identities, arguments for and against, all in one vessel.

2) The Ark can be a single person as in the case of psychotherapy, or the Ark can be a government in the form of politics, or it can be an institution in the form of a corporation or co-operative group.

3) The idea of the Ark states that lots of ideas, which dialectics show can be in the world as active conflicts, or institutions, or a group of people, are combined into one acting agent, and that the agent steers places keeping in mind the concepts of mind that it has on board.

4) In psychotherapy, you have the dialectic content of the history of the patient. Through psychotherapy, you and the patient posit how the patient will steer themselves in the future. By doing this, you are utilizing dialectics in a way that predicts the movement of this person in the future.

5) When a single person is the Ark, and is participating in Ark Resolution, they are keeping in mind the conflicts, desires, and goals which have been discussed previously or are known by them, and they are taking them into the world through the vessel of themselves.

6) Ark Resolution involves a lot of plays on words which are relevant to how the person functions while carrying concepts of the mind. Arch Resolution, which is to say you are having a peak amount of “pixels” in the display, implies that Ark Resolution carries with it the high quantity of concepts with a high quality of understanding of those concepts. It is also an “Arc Resolution,” which is to say a narrative arc is being resolved, but because the way it is being resolved is an “Ark,” the resolution is not the end, or something which stands still, but rather something which is being steered. In addition, there is an ambiguity in the bible whether or not the Ark was steered, with some passages implying that it was able to be steered, and some passages implying that it was not. In addition, the Ark is not always under total control of the agent “one.” In psychology, this is called consciousness and the unconscious, but the process and ambiguity is the same.

7) Because the resolution is an Ark, it means that various challenges are encountered by the Ark, so the Resolution is not that of one where no challenges are faced, but rather a highly informed problem-solving method. In addition to solving problems, the Ark can be used to go to places where one desires to go.

8) Because dialectics often involves concepts being shown as of a lesser order, which can be better gripped by a higher concept, so too can the Ark. For instance, interpersonal conflict can be better gripped by a series of laws in a government, or at home, a series of boundaries which are self-confirming. A self-confirming boundary means that there is something which informs the conflict and makes the “one” of the person able to know what is appropriate within a conflict, what is known as unacceptable. In addition, a moral value can be a higher concept, such as a strong, intimate interpersonal relationship within a couple being a higher moral value which can inform any interpersonal conflict and steer the “one” of the relationship towards it.

9) Just as a relationship conflict between two parties can steer towards a dialectical Idea such as a strong, intimate, interpersonal relationship, anything which can be conceived of as a one can engage in the struggle of acting as the “one,” then bringing the “one” towards a goal. A goal can be very material in nature such as increasing an amount of money, or it can be abstract in nature such as “improving the community.” To improve a community, one must know a community as a “one,” then define what would improve it, and move towards what that could be.

10) The “one” in the Ark Resolution is not a perfect one, but an Ideal notion. However, through this ideal notion, as well as the gripping things in the form of an agent steering towards goals, you can get a better sense of what Dialectical Egoism, a strange sort of combination of two words, consists of. A creation of a “one,” and a steering of forces.