The following introduction is included in its entirety in order to give a quick referrence for readers and researchers. Links to the specifics behind each concept and law of Technomancy are provided at the bottom of the page
Preface: Occult Theories of Nature and Technology
by Preacher
The highest founding law of occult theory in all universes of human and meta-human design is the Law of Correspondence. This is the model that drives occultism from all corners and shards of reality. Elven shamanic nature worship, mideaval hermetic ritual, ghoul practiced necromancy and any other school or genre of thought is guided by this principle.
In an untill now unrelated example, a liscenced physician would fully examine the condition of the patient and attempt to use a series of immune boosters, simple physical tricks of bandaging or stitching, and antiseptics in order to urge the body to overcome its condition and heal its own wounds.
That last example is the gateway to Technomancy. Plain and simple, the development of Technomancy is the development of -- or the refining of -- an new archetype.
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back to the healing example and the physician,; something very special is happening here: The physician is not trying to heal the patient through a unifying and ultimately disassociative process. The physician is attempting to heal the patient by reinforcing the patient's association to his or herself.
The physician sees to it that the body will function as it ought. He or she makes certain that no external factors will interfere with this and ultimately attempts to do nothing more than streamline the patient's natural healing processes. This emphasis on thephysicmaterial is imporatnat because it is what will eventually unlock science and turn it into Technomancy.
In an very similar paralell, engineers create simple artificial minds which function on simple concepts that, when run in tandem with other simple concepts, create effects that seem super-human. More so than in any other scientific or mystic field, engineers and programmers can see that what they are doing is merely the streamlining of a system. While they may use creative mathematics at times,the
mathematics still follows a brutally precise set of laws.
What every engineer, technician and scientist then comes to see is the potential for a system to become so much more. Properly harnessed, this potential can overcome flaws and build itself to something greater. Unassisted, a body has little chance of repairing a wide gash, but through stitching the potential of doing so greatly increases. A simple wood plank may not hold up a few stone blocks, but if the wood is shaped into an arch or triangular base the potential also greatly increases.
Married from the idea of Life, Humanity, Creativity and Order, the new archetype has arisen. It is uniquely human and is the birthright of all purely human races. It is the guiding archetype of mankind and theFirstmost famous Law of Technomancy: The Law of Emergent Potential.
l this point, the meta-human races seemed so much more powerful and mystically adept because they had early on discovered and embraced their guiding archetypes. This special archetype is the archetype that most saturates and embodies the race's psychology and physical being. Humanity remained a baseline race for so long because it rejected its guiding archetype. For centuries it attempted to either hide Emergent Potential under blankets of religion or mistake it for scientific method.
Machines seem easily capable of super-human feats even though humanity created them. Why? Machines are potential focused to a careful and extremely narrow point. In the creation of a machine, a human places a shard of their own Potential into the device and denies the device even the possibility of acting outside of itsFf
ocus. This maximization of the efficiency of the limited potential a human bestows creates a wholly unique effect.:
The machine comes to excel so greatly at its task that it appears to generate its own stores of Potential. This is the first application of the Law of Emergent Potential: the idea that Potential Focused strongly enough will come tomimic the Infinicrea
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humanity.
its own.
It wasn't merely because humans lacked the technology that they had so much trouble making an AI through science. The elementary thinking to do so just wasn't there. It was like attempting to build a cargo jet without a concept of gravity.
As the race further awakens to Emergent Potential, machines become wonderworks of special uses. The question still remains at how a human his or herself factors into this equation. The memory and processor speed of a machine could be used as a crude measure of the machine's potential. The human mind has an imagination that seems to circumvent this measure. It could be that humans, being the children of Potential, haveIinfinite Potential at their disposal.
But if some could be cultivated forthisexactly that
purpose. . . if the Infinite Potential of the racewere combincould be Focus
edwithdown to
the Emergent Potential of their machines. . . if their minds, destinies and psychologies could be Focusedright down to a narrow point. . . they could harness power unlike anything the world has ever seen.
Trading the universe for the power to uphold what is right. Trading the ability to walkfree
with their race for the strength and body to be humanity's avatars.
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