Comparing the irrelevant, archaic ISLMists with real scientists triggered this blog.
For example, this video about Einstein repeatedly mentions:
1) fusing many things, into ... "what is the question," and
2) time has no meaning; an evolving species simply DOES NOT CARE how long the next step takes.
That has helped me clarify one way to express my long-held thesis - that we're already at a transition point in human evolution.
Where have we been? Scientists - i.e., human "thinkers" - throughout history have pushed the boundaries for fusing whatever incident data WHICH ONE HUMAN MIND COULD ABSORB.
Where are "we" going? Upon reflection, the non-dialectic approach above obviously DOES NOT SCALE without limit. The very paradigm loses relevance. There is already a new question overriding all the previous ones.
We've seen it before. Far in the past, some single-cell organisms reached the pinnacle of context representation WHICH ONE CELL COULD MIRROR, MAP AND NAVIGATE THROUGH. The next step for cells was themselves fusing into massively multi-cellular aggregates - aggregates which could be capable of fusing inputs, options and mappings far beyond the paradigms which any single cell could ever even manipulate.
What, analogous limit are we humans at, even now? Our next step is quite obviously massively multi-personal cultural aggregates. And the next analog to a theory of relativity will be a fusion NOT of space-time into a unified field topography, but fusion of context-options into one, unified context_space topography, exposing the possibility of appropriate mapping and navigation methods.
Ergo, it's no longer maximally interesting to even consider what information any single human can mirror, map and navigate. What is the EMERGING QUESTION that defines the frontiers our descendants will navigate? What context extensions - with extended dimensions - can our emerging CULTURAL-ENTITIES mirror, map and navigate - which will be beyond our personal ability to even comprehend?
Once stated that way, it no longer matters what an individual knows. It only matters what an aggregate collectively perceives, explores and selectively navigates.
Soon, a single node in a choreography ensemble, marching band or evolving culture ... will no longer even be able to perceive the dimensions of Options Space which are already open to the growing ensemble it is a component of. The units themselves - us - won't even field the degeneracy instrumentation able to mirror and parse all the added dimensions of context mirrored by the aggregate. It's mathematically impossible.
The ONLY choices of interest represent two directions on one, extensible tensor. Regression into the churning reverberations of prior states, and death. Or, expansion by diversification, into options and an options-space beyond ourselves. Actually, our choices don't matter, since time has no meaning. The latter will occur, here or elsewhere, regardless of our choice. We can't even tell whether it already has! We're not even aware of most species of life existing in a gram of matter anywhere on earth, nor are they cognizant of us. Who's to say what might already lie, mutually undetected both "upstairs" from here and downstairs from there.
2) time has no meaning; an evolving species simply DOES NOT CARE how long the next step takes.
That has helped me clarify one way to express my long-held thesis - that we're already at a transition point in human evolution.
Where have we been? Scientists - i.e., human "thinkers" - throughout history have pushed the boundaries for fusing whatever incident data WHICH ONE HUMAN MIND COULD ABSORB.
Where are "we" going? Upon reflection, the non-dialectic approach above obviously DOES NOT SCALE without limit. The very paradigm loses relevance. There is already a new question overriding all the previous ones.
We've seen it before. Far in the past, some single-cell organisms reached the pinnacle of context representation WHICH ONE CELL COULD MIRROR, MAP AND NAVIGATE THROUGH. The next step for cells was themselves fusing into massively multi-cellular aggregates - aggregates which could be capable of fusing inputs, options and mappings far beyond the paradigms which any single cell could ever even manipulate.
What, analogous limit are we humans at, even now? Our next step is quite obviously massively multi-personal cultural aggregates. And the next analog to a theory of relativity will be a fusion NOT of space-time into a unified field topography, but fusion of context-options into one, unified context_space topography, exposing the possibility of appropriate mapping and navigation methods.
Ergo, it's no longer maximally interesting to even consider what information any single human can mirror, map and navigate. What is the EMERGING QUESTION that defines the frontiers our descendants will navigate? What context extensions - with extended dimensions - can our emerging CULTURAL-ENTITIES mirror, map and navigate - which will be beyond our personal ability to even comprehend?
Once stated that way, it no longer matters what an individual knows. It only matters what an aggregate collectively perceives, explores and selectively navigates.
Soon, a single node in a choreography ensemble, marching band or evolving culture ... will no longer even be able to perceive the dimensions of Options Space which are already open to the growing ensemble it is a component of. The units themselves - us - won't even field the degeneracy instrumentation able to mirror and parse all the added dimensions of context mirrored by the aggregate. It's mathematically impossible.
The ONLY choices of interest represent two directions on one, extensible tensor. Regression into the churning reverberations of prior states, and death. Or, expansion by diversification, into options and an options-space beyond ourselves. Actually, our choices don't matter, since time has no meaning. The latter will occur, here or elsewhere, regardless of our choice. We can't even tell whether it already has! We're not even aware of most species of life existing in a gram of matter anywhere on earth, nor are they cognizant of us. Who's to say what might already lie, mutually undetected both "upstairs" from here and downstairs from there.
Our greatest residual point of interest? How will we eventually accommodate our own evolution? All components crafting a greater whole are constantly selecting which local options to trade for which collective options, while conferring added security statistics. To build a cultural "physiology," we will presumably all retreat to being the equivalent of liver cells, i.e., "professions," plus some fraction of stem-people, able to go anywhere and trigger mutation and/or re-growth of any type of needed subunit, even if only adipose-people.
With promise of a guaranteed supply of Scotch, would YOU be content living out YOUR days as a respected - even renowned! - liver cell? :)
As for what it will be like "upstairs" - well, there's no use even speculating. We're either going with the flow & enjoying the ride, or fighting currents through dimensions we can't even perceive. Since we can't perceive where we came from nor where we're going, why not just act like Context Nomads performing Real-Resource-Taxis, and truly enjoy the changing scenery?
