# Spatial cognition and complexity anarchy

Through elaborate and fine-grained visual representations of Earth as Euclidian space on a plane, natio-states increasingly try to fill empty space and expand their apparatus inside their borders in doemstic affairs and outside the borders in international affairs. This has been first achieved through the commodification of all domestic land, whose ownership can be monitored and tracked. States have spread an invisible veil of ownership over geographical space. Regarding the question of, "where is the state", what is its shape and what does it look like, although nation-states would like to think themselves as the shape of their land bounded by its boarders, in truth, state is where taxation can be effected. Essentially this makes the shape and location of the state dependent on the civilians as units. The shape of the state then exists in an abstrarct multidimensional space, a dynamic Hilbert space of constant tranformation around a center of consolidation. The space where the State lives, is a state space.

A stateless society then is not one where the state is necessarily abolished but the society that can exist in all the areas of empty space in this multidimensional state space that don't intersect with its monitoring capacity. The goal of the complexity anarchist is then to naviagte this complex state space and settle in the non-State intersectiong void.

Cyberspace has further complexified the shape of this state space and added additional dimensions that escape the traditional Euclidean space of geopolitics or the Riemanian space of vertical building, boradband connection, ocean and space exploration. Cyberspace is able to condense 3 dimensional space into points of singularity and adds the dimensions of server capacity and connectivity. Virtual space is no longer contained by a Cartesian space and is not volumetric but *"infometric"*, and contained in memeory space.

However, if one wished to totally dismantle the state apparatus one has to do much much more. Essentially one has to revert the clock of the history of visual thought 2.5 millenia and bring back what McLuhan and Cornford refered to as *"acoustic space"*, a spherical discontinuous space of simulatenity that is nit dicorced from the rest of the sensory apparatus and is aways contextual and inseperable from the environemnt of the congitive subject. McLuhan claims that the phonetic alphabet is the single culprit for the emergence of the visual space which didn't exist in western cultures before that and still doesn't exist in culures that don't use a phonetic alphabet. Thus, visual space is a human artifcat that once emerged as a consequence of a tranformational shift in cogntion that the phonetic alphabet brought, mainly the seperation of perceptual forms as they are presented in experience from their environemtn in which they are presented. This led to the ability of high degrees of symbolic abstarction that led to the possibility of the written tracking of oral speech and the translation of different languages into one alphabet, a radically disruptive technological development that marked a non-linear leap in human cognition and the production of media. Geometry, Ptolemaic Astronomy, Philosophy and Engineering where all derivative forms of this basic tranformational shift. For example, in philosophy logic couldn't have emerged without the requirement of continuity and coherence which was essential to construct a syllogism on paper.

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