I think I just found a reason for facebook, and a new theory about the internet.

Nirvana - [Sifting]--- From mendori: Facebook pokes pulse like a heart -- HP Labs study.

I have said before that I cannot think of a reason for Facebook. I can find a purpose for almost every other internet site, and interaction, but I have never understood the point of Facebook. (Portishead - [Cowboys]). Here's my new theory: Every sector of social interaction on the internet acts as centre of a brain, or, if you'll bear with me, the Psyche (Junian/Freudian sense).

LiveJournal seems the Ego, self interested, and trying to maintain a bit of status quo, while seeking to understand itself. MySpace [and most forums (Something Awful, Fark, etc)], then, is an expression of the Id. I don't think I need to explain that. Facebook, it seems, represents the benevolent emotial centre of the Internet. It is the interaction of people on a purely emotive level, but almost all of it good. It can be seen as the SuperEgo.

Now, what then, is our Jungian analysis? Where does your loyalty lie? What do you abhor, in the Internet? (The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets - [Goin Down To Dunwich]). There is your Shadow. Your anima or animus. The Troll, the Mod, the Poster, the Lurker, the Flamer, and the Peacekeeper are a few of our Archetypes. The Internet, itself, is the Collective Unconscious, and we are seeking to impart our Conscious Will, on our Unconscious mind.

Mark the Time and the Date. I just gave the Internet the means by which to not merely think, but to process its own thoughts.

We have a psyche and a will.

Now hop to it.

Science! Alchemy?

LUXT - [Filament]--- Don't you ever, EVER talk bad about alchemy to me, again, you hear me?

Kick ass.

"In this case we find that the properties of a material which we regard as modern and high-tech, in this case mullite, were being exploited centuries ago by craftsmen who had a limited scientific understanding of their products but a great deal of skill and ingenuity."

I would say they had quite a Good deal of scientific understanding of their product, if they were able to fucking make it. Molecular compunds do not a science make, and this is what I mean when I talk about concepts, and using them as tools. They had certain concepts and, with them, they were able to make mullite. Something we didn't re-learn for a few hundred years.

I'd say that's pretty fucking smart. We simply have a different set of concepts, now. But we can translate, can't we? I think we can.