Number and measure are disengaged from the expanse of nature. Nature becomes object, the subject becomes the decisive point of reference of transcendency. Self-procreation of the mind and hostility against the body constitute the poles of transcending the earthly. It degenerates into working power. Its desires and longings are driven out.
Dionysian excess is replaced by the self-assertion of the tamed transcendent as a large machinery.
All things become vehicles of mystifications. It is the beginning of the cult of the true thing, which is actually a cult of imitations. Marvin Minsky and the basics researchers of the MIT regard themselves as gods. In their opinion, man is degenerating into the last defective mind machine, a piece of capricious, erroneous brain meat. The mind has detached itself from the body.