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| Joseph Humming |
 Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 2:09 pm |
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The human brain is the finest product of unmediated evolution. There
will be advances in the future - but these will certainly be
mediated
by human agency.
Such a brain will eventually create an intelligent global society.
It's an evolutionary certainty - i.e, one that could easily be
overturned by catastrophe but which, barring that, will happen.
Why has this not happened to date? Consider the advances necessary to
create such a society - the knowledge required, the control required,
the communication necessary, the empowerment required, the errors
needing to be eroded, the imbalances needing to be corrected...If the
atom requires such prodigious underpinning with multiple particles
what underpinning must be required to construct such a vast society.
During the years of construction we required the illusion of
certainty. We do not entertain doubt. This legacy of error - the
beliefs etc - is part of the detritus we must shift before the clear
human society emerges. The subtlety of human error - all the forms
and
arts we create to conceal our essential ignorance - will not
dissipate
easily.
The ultimate irony about this future prospect is that we cannot allow
it hinder our drive. We must blindly seek whatever justice, rights,
pleasure etc etc we currently feel we require. Thus, we court
ignorance to one day gain knowledge.
This ultimate society we might call HUMANISATION.
Joseph Humming |
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