The Painful Labor of Emergence, by Mushin, mourning our civilization that in dying gives birth to something truer, smaller, more in keeping with humanity's place in the cosmos, a pest less resilient than the cockroach. Let us hope, for his His sake, that we are made in an image other than God's. After the great die off of the dinosaurs came, well, us. And after us, we who are rightly called Consumers, what progress, after what Dark Age? Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Diogenes, Boethius, we have much to learn from the Stoics about comporting ourselves well as things fall apart. Naked Diogenes, to shame the wealthy, ate scraps from the pavement along with his dog. If Bernanke did the same, it would be a sign of hope.
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What will emerge, and will it care about us? Eric and Art were suggesting from the progression towards singularity in the pace of change of our socio-informational support systems may indicate the emergence of a post-human intelligence. You have suggested as much in your satirical way over the years.
I suspect that what is emerging is a collective intelligence that we can participate in, but will quickly grow beyond any individual ability to comprehend. We can only hope that it has a human heart.
Someone on the radio attributed to Einstein an idea about holding the universe to be a friendly place. That is the origin of his quotes that God may be subtle, but not devious in reference to trying to understand the universe mathematically. We can figure it out, if only after lifetimes of effort. We can know that it is good even if we can only comprehend the smallest bit.
Posted by: twitter.com/ddenizen | October 07, 2009 at 09:16 AM
Post-human intelligence, virtue, and peace. I can almost hear the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, and animals that move upon the earth, all crying, "Amen." We are the fever that is buring the planet up. When will that fever break?
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | October 07, 2009 at 03:03 PM
An end to our romp outside the garden, perhaps. But the tree of knowledge will always be there for the brave of heart and strong of spirit to taste of and live as gods. To find out what a tragedy it is to come up short, and knowing the garden is always there awaiting our return.
Posted by: twitter.com/ddenizen | October 07, 2009 at 05:26 PM
Something will be here and see us in the museums, stuffed.
Posted by: Phil Cubeta | October 08, 2009 at 12:00 AM