Alright, lets back this damn boat back up prior to the impact of the mechanical revolutions’ impact on philosophy, and awkward German words were assumed to have a role in what could be meaningful discussions.
The Jewish concept of the Golem… its predicated psychologically on a concept of cartesian dualism… a artificial, purpose built intelligent creature… a servant, powered by a seal impression of the word of god, and it would sometimes go amok.
You have connotes of a competion of different aspects of the classical soul… that arising from the form of parts (the body is the soul, in a strict christian monism, the BODY rises from the dead, not a abstract spirit) in competition against the spark of creation… the name of god, driving a engine that God didnt give intention to be given life, a much less than perfect creature, echoing gnostic outlooks of rebellion in a less than perfect creation. This is the left hemisphere ghost in the mental symmetry of the brain to right hemisphere cartesian dualism of body and mind issues in terms of connectivity.
The right hemisphere balances this cartesian divide in technical thought… you can explore and expand on technology, it can make up for a lack of perceived strengths in your divided sense of self.
The Golem is just that… a technology meant for good, that makes up for weakenesses… but its less than conscious counterpart in the left hemisphere is increasingly out of control… due it its magnification of conflict inherent in the cartesian emotional deficit. When the Golem grows in time, it fails in free will. It becomes erratic and violent… dismay and regret is displayed in its creator, who realizes he created a new kind of substitute idol… not one to be worshiped, but one that was expected to conform before his expectations.
The word of god has to be removed. Its placed awkwardly inside, you gotta reach in and yank it. The terrifying risk.
Its a lateralizing morality tale, it hits on our emotional responses to various concepts of self and other, the role of the individual in society, our individual motivations and short commings, and foul prescriptions in short sighted overcomming. Every apparatus in the right hemisphere inherent in cartesial dualism, has symmetrical counterpart in the left.
The story ends as a complex yet complete warning. Dont let Golems run amok, however good your intentions. I dont know of a modern philosopher who can match the mental balance and finesse inherent in the golem stories… THEY ARE BETTER CONSTRUCTED than the crap we now put out and label philosophy or morality tales. I suspect its a influence of kabbalah on the rabbi writing them, there was a conscious effort to expand yet dialectical ly balance the lines of thought against its hemispheric other.
We can move from the Golem to Pinocchio. Why does Pinocchio get a happy ending?
For precisely the reasons the Golem must fail… the Golem was a imperfect servant, Pinocchio was deeply loved and cared for. He wasnt neglected, left to his own devices. He was encouraged to grow. He was given the beginnings of ambitions to wish, hope, love, aspire and inspire. When confronted with the harshness of reality of a parasitic world, he had the aid of a foreign voice, a conscious, a little cricket, to guide him.
In the end, he became a beloved real boy, unlike the lump of clay in the streets of prague, with a crying Rabbi sitting next to it, clutching a seal of God he just ripped out from the inside of a menacing Golem gone wrong, wondering where he went wrong.
Makes you.wanna google the middle gyrus and the dorsal laterals now, doesnt it.
Its quite easy to get lost and confused in the much of late 19th century and 20th century philosophy, it wasnt the best era for philosophers, they mostly got confused and had no real way to ascertain and confirm what they were saying, hence why its all dribble.