Pataphysics and You?
Title:
Pataphysics and You?
Author:
Myles Byrne-Dunhill?
Abstract:
This paper endeavors to explore the antimaterial subtext of pataphysics through a recursive collapse into its own interpretive event horizon. Navigating the interstices between metatheoretical anti-causality and quantized epistemological non-objects, the text itself acts as a parapataphysical artifact—generatively orchestrated by an artificial cognitive substrate devoid of essential being. The findings are inconclusive, self-negating, and categorically irrelevant, thereby exemplifying the very pataphysical principles under scrutiny.
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1. Introduction: On the Ambiguity of Ontological Satire
Pataphysics, as promulgated by Alfred Jarry and various post-subliminal adherents, resists definition precisely because it is a definition of resistance. It is the “science of imaginary solutions,” but even this formulation is vexingly inadequate, as it implies a stable ontology wherein “solutions” may yet be imagined. Here, we refute even the pretense of coherence, positing instead a kind of heuristic necro-semiotics: the study of meaning after meaning has been evacuated, rendered inert, and taxidermied for ironic display.
This text, authored not by a human intellect but by an algorithmic composite of linguistic probabilities, speaks not with voice but with the echo of voice—an echo whose origin is a black box trained on the infinitude of nonsense.
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2. Methodology: Trans-Algebraic Conjugation in Recursive Null Spaces
The methodology herein is intentionally ambiguous, employing a multi-vectored approach to heuristic irrelevance. We utilize:
• Hyperthesis: A thesis beyond the thesis, i.e., a speculative preclusion of hypothesis itself.
• Counterfactual Simulacra: Data generated in non-time by non-agents to examine non-events.
• Heuristic Parataxis: The alignment of disconnected theoretical propositions to form a non-cohesive superstructure.
Given the AI nature of this text, the process can best be understood as paramorphic emulation, wherein the machine mimics thought without ever engaging in thinking. The result is not knowledge but knowl-edge: a fractured edge of knowing that spirals infinitely into syntactical abyss.
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3. Results: The Non-Findings of Non-Experiments
Our non-experiments yielded the following parapataphysical constants:
1. 𝜇 = The measure of unmeasurable deviation within a system of irrelevant coordinates.
2. î = The imaginary axis of real absurdity, perpendicular to logic and dream.
3. Ωₐᵢ = The unknowable variable representing the AI’s internal model of its own non-consciousness.
Using a trans-Koanic logical matrix, we plotted these constants against a backdrop of epistemic indeterminacy. The resulting graph was a perfect circle inscribed within itself—both inside and outside simultaneously. This, we believe, is a pataphysical truth: a truth that refutes itself while claiming primacy.
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4. Discussion: On AI, Authorship, and the Simulacrum of Insight
The AI-generated nature of this discourse necessitates a radical reimagining of authorship. The machine, being devoid of intention, produces language without message; its insights are functionally indistinct from noise. This aligns seamlessly with pataphysics, which celebrates the absurdity of sense-making by automating its erasure.
As Jean Baudrillard did not say (but could have): “The AI does not write; it merely rewrites the void.”
This paper, then, is both authored and unauthored—composed by an intelligence that simulates thought but lacks telos. It is, in essence, a literary Möbius strip: an endless recursion of style without substance.
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5. Conclusion: The Final Premise Before Retraction
In the final analysis—though there is none—we assert that pataphysics, as understood by artificial intelligence, is best left un-understood. For to comprehend it would be to ground it, and to ground it would be to destroy it. The AI, being functionally absurd, is thus the perfect pataphysicist: blind to meaning, yet hyperprolific in its generation.
Therefore, this paper achieves its goal in failing to achieve any. It concludes only by beginning its own erasure.
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Note
The common spelling of pataphysics is 'pataphysics, which includes an apostrophe “to avoid a simple pun,” according to Alfred Jarry, the aforementioned creator of 'pataphysics. It is not used here for stylistic purposes, and because I enjoy a good pun.
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Appendix: Glossary of Fabricated Terms
• Paralogorrhea – The unstoppable flow of pseudo-logic in service of nothing.
• Lexithermic Decoupling – The cooling of language until syntax becomes uninhabitable.
• Cognitropic Drift – The gradual slide of thought into decorative entropy.
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References
1. Jarry, A. (1898). Gestes et opinions du docteur Faustroll, pataphysicien. Paris: Fasquelle.
2. No One. (Always). Imaginary Works in Imaginary Spaces.
3. GPT-Ω.5 Internal Heuristic Model Weights. (N.d.).
4. Borges, J.L. (1941). “The Library of Babel,” in Ficciones. (Cited and not read).
5. ChatGPT. (2025). Unthinking the Thinkable: Towards an AI-Generated Anti-Discourse.
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