AutomaTom

Hamlet may want to be a machine, but I want to be an automaton. My name will be AutomaTom.
You see, my friends, I struggle with paranoia and subsequent narcissism stemming from my current status as human. I think...I don't necessarily want to think...I want to create my own language...my code...
I can dominate this language and exist within its bounds--bounds which are established only by me.
I want to be an automaton: I want to not be.


"The famous hypothesis put forward by the psychiatrist G. de Clerambault seems well founded: delirium, which is by nature global and systemic, is a secondary phenomenon, a consequence of partial and local automatistic phenomena. Delirium is in fact characteristic of the recording that is made of the process of production of the desiring-machines; and though there are syntheses and disorders (affections) that are peculiar to this recording process, as we see in paranoia and even in paranoid forms of schizophrenia, it does not constitute an autonomous sphere, for it depends on the functioning and the breakdowns of desiring-machines. Nonetheless Clerambault used the term '(mental) automatism' to designate only athematic phenomena--echolalia, the uttering of odd sounds, or sudden irrational outbursts--which he attributed to the mechanical effects of infections or intoxications. Moreover, he expalined a large part of delirium in turn as an effect of automatism; as for the rest of it, the 'personal' part, in his view it was of the nature of a reaction and had to do with 'character,' the manifestations of which might well precede the automatism (as in the paranoiac character, for instance)."
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari--"Anti-Oedipus"


"For we must make no mistake about ourselves: we are as much automaton as mind...Proofs only convince the mind; habit provides the strongest proofs and those that are most believed. It inclines the automaton, which leads the mind unconsciously along with it."--Pascal