ABSTRACT
Chapter 6 argues that the approaching absolutism of Technology is now recognisable in the looming subsumption of individual consciousness. That argument is prepared by illustrating the "soft" nature of consciousness as rooted in the human disposition to cognitively embed cultural frameworks – themselves the residue of the beliefs and practices attributable to Deity, State and Market – as the basis of the perceptual probability projections that are believed by the subject to be crucial to their survival as an individual. Such cultural frameworks are separate from the sense of existential reality that is the foundation of consciousness but which is veiled by that framework and those beliefs. These frameworks have originary sources in the serial cultural history of all four of the magnitudes as consolidated under the influence of the complex of dynamics and are now emerging in the new form of a range of such present technological developments as L.L.M.s, algorithmic coiling, metaverse immersion and prospective human-level A.G.I. Concerns that these developments are beginning to radically subject consciousness are emphasised by the wide submission of citizens to the present regimes of the platforms but these concerns do not yet constitute a populist reaction: what we are seeing instead is an expert reaction to any subsumption of conscious belief by late Technology. This is not a reaction that addresses the veiling of existential reality by such belief.
