Yes, we must pay homage to this activity that involves the creation of concepts, the true philosophy, this activity which is above all intimate to the mind [1]. For before it became an academic discipline, philosophy in essence is the creation of concepts [2]. Thus, to 'philosophize' is the inner experience of a person at the moment when they create the concept. The concept is the intuitive idea, it is this third kind of knowledge that Spinoza values [3]. These are the 'aha' moments: these 'I understand' moments, which unravel everything in an instant, the concept is this vision machine.

Marx announced the death of philosophy, but above all, he declared the death of philosophy of purely ideal categories, those that are absolutely non-materialistic. We believe that the real is material [4], we wanted to give science (materialistic, real) the monopoly of knowledge, but philosophy survives, for it alone truly conceives a materialist concept (science does not produce concepts as such, it is a practice of constructing and accumulating functions on reference planes). An opposition between science and philosophy is immature. The two, of course, do not operate on the same plane, one does not need the other to exist, the concept studies relationships, scientific functions study numbers [5], etc. But the function does not yield the concept, the operation of the concept, that is philosophy, and that is also what distinguishes us from GPT-4. The boundaries between science, art, and philosophy, are in truth much thinner for the individual than this academic gridwork in operation.

Our baseness, our misery, lies partly in the forbidden access to the purely materialist concept and detached from any belief in the real: if we were angels, if we had access to the glory of God painted by Christianity, we would access this intuitive knowledge of material laws, to the materialist concept in its full essence (omniscience), but we remain miserable men and our only weapon that can reach infinity, is the concept. Idealistic pride wants to retain infinity, but to absolutely detach it from matter is dangerous (the concept moves crowds, to base it on nothingness...). Our concepts are materialistic, but our bet on them is idealistic (bet on infinity, Pascal), there is no other way to infuse them with this life.

So let's conceive! Yes, let's wager on intuitive knowledge, for it alone can fill us with joy [6]. Philosophy is not science, we must always recreate our concepts [7], this is the praxis of the philosopher. So, to the one who is interested in economics, why don't you create your own concept of capital? Why are you blind and unable to grasp its becoming? Of course, we should not create just any concept, but concept rigourously designed with a clear and distinctive judgment. And not in passive contemplation (or intellectual masturbation) nor in a young girl's vanity [8], which often amounts to the same thing. Thus we must live the concept. It's a frightening experience, to live reality outside of the cave, thus we remember this feeling of heavy vertigo in front of this new visual reality grasped by the concepts that have become intuitive of light-color.

[1] Sharing, discussion, among friends etc. are also essential in the fabrication of the concept (man is always standing on the shoulders of the giants who have preceded us), but our argument stops at the inner experience of thought

[2] Deleuze & Guattari, “Qu'est-ce que la philosophie ?” (1991)

[3] Spinoza, 'Ethics' (1661). The knowledge of the third kind, or 'scientia intuitiva', according to Spinoza, is a form of immediate, intuitive, and non-discursive knowledge that arises directly from the adequate knowledge of the essence of things.

[4] Karl Marx states in 'The German Ideology' (1845): 'Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.' This is an affirmation of Marx's historical materialism, which maintains that material conditions (economic, social, political, etc.) determine consciousness, not the other way around.

[6] Seventeenth Century Wisdom, Spinoza, Part 5 and Beatitude. Pascal and the infinite that fills the heart.

[7] Nietzche insisted on this point: the philosopher is the one who creates concepts. For the concept is always created, it is not simply commented on, contemplated, reflected upon, etc. It is first and foremost the operation of the "understanding" of a particular mind, and thus of all others (or idea attribute in Nietzche). It is above all the operation of the "understanding" of a particular mind, and thus of all others (or idea attribute in Spinoza)

[8] Raw materials for the Theory of the Young-Girl, Tiqqqun