(or: demystifying freedom and spontaneity with speculative virtualism)
A few insights from this morning’s reading encounter.
“As much as possible” needs to be speculatively revised.
When I stressed earlier the non-opposition of composition and improvisation, insisting on the constraints within the myths of “free acting” or “spontenous response”, it was precisely related to this.
There is a limitation in the idea of all possibles, and Meillassoux's chapter presented it to me perfectly with the image of the dice, this morning: it has a finite amount of sides and doesn’t allow different sizes its sides or addition of extra sides. This is the different between chance and contingency, and as I will argue, it helps to undo many myths, not only that of the musical genius, the transcendental image of the child prodigy, but also that of life as a miracle itself.
