Experiments: On Conjuring Correlation

Betsy Calabaza
2 min readJul 15, 2021

Alright man, we start of with a sprinkling of Big Dog Charles S Peirce.

The metaphysical motivation of our existence is rooted in kicking the can. Regardless of how we respond to “external stimuli.” Regardless of what we want, what we wish for, the consequence of our reaction depends on a continuation.

The continuation, the kicking of the can, is envoloped by external stimuli. We become inundated with with invitations to react.

To be sure, part of our physical being is always reacting. We’re just now concerned with the shape of our self aware, mental response to the stimuli.

The shape of our response (paradoxically this is our response, so we’re shaping the shape we’re analyzing) is an effort to become a puzzle piece that completes the external stimuli into a union of continuing stimuli and a mental resolution that allows us to once again shape our response (autonomy).

If we don’t know how to shape our reaction to reach the expectations we want, we will still experience the stimuli bombarding us. We will take shapes alien to ourselves. We may be confused. Do not distract yourself because we’re still focused on the metaphysics.

The kicking of the can continues. Let go of all your beliefs (or wait till humanity goes extinct) and you’ll still be.

Into the foray, we can see where the Buddha set up shop. But we don’t want to merely be. We want to experiment and gather correlative understanding of the world that grows our understanding of the shaping of the world.

Here epistemology is mechanically taken apart and each hypothesis is measured against the continuation of the can. The distance and impact the kick has on the can is noted in dogma. Dogma becomes our presumption. A condom we wear when having to interact with the raw, metaphysical motivation of Reality.

Without the condom, Reality would fuck us free of our autonomy. Experiments are protected by the powerful. Correlation are established by the ambitious. The whole shape is pushed by wanting to do and wanting to be at the same time.

We don’t have to worry about being. We just have to worry about doing. The correlations we have established in shaping the world and the experiments to see what new shapes can be made. What will be will be by what is done. What is done will be done by those establishing the correlations to the experiments. Wielding together through spirit the consequences of the past with the shape of the future. Through their own doing.

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Betsy Calabaza

blooms — crazy rants masked as abstract experimental philosophy. s/o CS Peirce