Ideas rule
July 19th 2007 12:54
Ideas. I got a lot of them. I've got ideas here. I've got an idea. Hey I just thought of something. By the way, I was thinking. Oh, I just had an idea. Sometimes we get sick of that.
Ideas? we ask, oh gosh I'm just not sure, I've got so much on my mind already. It's not hard to see why so often we slink back into ignorance and self delusion, individually and collectively.
But now we have the opportunity to act collectively on a global scale in very quick timelines. The east and west are now down in the history books as the biggest possible communities on earth not to interact. They had a pretty short run until they started effecting each other. But now pretty much every collective communicates in enough ways to make it such that the collective is truely global. The sense in which this communication went on was very slow for a while, the generational trickle through of religion and philosophies and world views, ie ideas. and thus the organism that was the global collective was a slow and unweildly organism, lurching around in the dark, taking hundreds of years to take one stride. But each time it hit on an idea that could speed up its stride or shine a light on its surroundings, then it incorporated it. Thus getting faster and faster and more accurate at predicting and understanding. This also revealed some of the horrors going on around it, and ironically the organism was hurting itself more and more the more it sped up in it's stumble around a semi dark landscape. But here we are now. We have new ways of getting around without hurting ourselves. New ways of taking without dispossessing another, new ways of sharing, collaborating, not just new ways of comepeting with and harming the other or dispossessing the other. Some have done this since they recognise the other as the self in the collective sense.
But here we are. A global organism communicating and interacting. At the same time we are able to communicate and interact with our individual bodies at the same time. So just at the same time as the organism that it a collective of human individuals will be able to have all the parts in it (ideas) communicate with each other in the most infinitely complex and quick way possible. So to will the ideas of each individual be capable of reshaping all the aspects of its components (ie the biological make up of the being). So don't be surprised if you see the rise of some kind of world species of human. A new species of human. One that is perfectly integrated into playing its role in the global organism. Thus this organism can evolve as it chooses and become the cog in a bigger wheel far sooner, and so in it accelerates.
But who is in charge here? in biological evolution it was the genes who were at the centre of it all. They were pulling all the strings, they were simply trying to get themselves expressed in the future. But then some genes got together and made quite a successful little organisation which was capable of making a being with ideas. An idea being just an extension of the concept brought up by genes that could change over time. Ideas allowed the organism to change things in a quicker than 1 generation time span (the speed of genes). Until finally the ideas are able to control the genes. That's the end of genes as an evolutionary factor. Evolution as it was previously understood is now finished, biological evolution of species through mutation in reproduction. with its characteristics of competition and violence, gone too. Now the ideas are in control, and there might be an initial scuffle, people will be more attacking of the ideas and positngs of others. But generally everyone becomes bored of this pretty quickly, no time to waste watching and reading things you know you disagree with, no time to waste arguing with those who I already know disagree. Only those willing to have a conversation need knock on my door. And suddenly the same two people will find each other who had fought in the past, he who they had thought they had turned their back on to leave the world of argument. And those same two will now have a conversation. For all the world now has turned their back on argument. The future is gonna be sweet! Ideas rule!
Ideas? we ask, oh gosh I'm just not sure, I've got so much on my mind already. It's not hard to see why so often we slink back into ignorance and self delusion, individually and collectively.
But now we have the opportunity to act collectively on a global scale in very quick timelines. The east and west are now down in the history books as the biggest possible communities on earth not to interact. They had a pretty short run until they started effecting each other. But now pretty much every collective communicates in enough ways to make it such that the collective is truely global. The sense in which this communication went on was very slow for a while, the generational trickle through of religion and philosophies and world views, ie ideas. and thus the organism that was the global collective was a slow and unweildly organism, lurching around in the dark, taking hundreds of years to take one stride. But each time it hit on an idea that could speed up its stride or shine a light on its surroundings, then it incorporated it. Thus getting faster and faster and more accurate at predicting and understanding. This also revealed some of the horrors going on around it, and ironically the organism was hurting itself more and more the more it sped up in it's stumble around a semi dark landscape. But here we are now. We have new ways of getting around without hurting ourselves. New ways of taking without dispossessing another, new ways of sharing, collaborating, not just new ways of comepeting with and harming the other or dispossessing the other. Some have done this since they recognise the other as the self in the collective sense.
But here we are. A global organism communicating and interacting. At the same time we are able to communicate and interact with our individual bodies at the same time. So just at the same time as the organism that it a collective of human individuals will be able to have all the parts in it (ideas) communicate with each other in the most infinitely complex and quick way possible. So to will the ideas of each individual be capable of reshaping all the aspects of its components (ie the biological make up of the being). So don't be surprised if you see the rise of some kind of world species of human. A new species of human. One that is perfectly integrated into playing its role in the global organism. Thus this organism can evolve as it chooses and become the cog in a bigger wheel far sooner, and so in it accelerates.
But who is in charge here? in biological evolution it was the genes who were at the centre of it all. They were pulling all the strings, they were simply trying to get themselves expressed in the future. But then some genes got together and made quite a successful little organisation which was capable of making a being with ideas. An idea being just an extension of the concept brought up by genes that could change over time. Ideas allowed the organism to change things in a quicker than 1 generation time span (the speed of genes). Until finally the ideas are able to control the genes. That's the end of genes as an evolutionary factor. Evolution as it was previously understood is now finished, biological evolution of species through mutation in reproduction. with its characteristics of competition and violence, gone too. Now the ideas are in control, and there might be an initial scuffle, people will be more attacking of the ideas and positngs of others. But generally everyone becomes bored of this pretty quickly, no time to waste watching and reading things you know you disagree with, no time to waste arguing with those who I already know disagree. Only those willing to have a conversation need knock on my door. And suddenly the same two people will find each other who had fought in the past, he who they had thought they had turned their back on to leave the world of argument. And those same two will now have a conversation. For all the world now has turned their back on argument. The future is gonna be sweet! Ideas rule!
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