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Humanity does not, perhaps cannot, know all its purposes. Some are not quite amenable to our consciousness.

:- Doug.

Humanity needs its elders to be dreamers, that is, poets.

:- Doug.

Conversation
a transformation
of information?

:- Doug.

While our 300-year grandchild elders won’t be born into a time space of harnessing the energy of the solar system, we can help them think larger about it, muddling through at a higher level.

:- Doug.

We, elders, are working on our skill in story; and we are working on our skills in far-sight and deep-sight.

:- Doug.

What sort of future humanity do you want? (Not future for.) What if you had a say?

:- Doug.

How essential to humanity is subjective experience? What of that ought we grow?

:- Doug.

Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1898

We got older by doing the same things over and over. We could have done new things and gotten newer.

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SSH (small, smart, healthy) enough.

:- Doug.

What is the fear and danger of that future? What is humanicity?

:- Doug.

Let’s come up with a different word that opens a new skylight of thinking.

:- Doug.

Instead of seeing developing futures as cold metal and plastic, let us deliberately install organic living new brain and mind helpers.

:- Doug.

Exploring: If computation is transforming information, such as by multiplying numbers together, or dividing, we are having one act upon the other. The same is true of persons conversing, only humans are much more complex “numbers” if that term applies. Complex numbers are real numbers combined with imaginary numbers; it seems that people are real plus imagination, so it tends to fit. Conversations are people transforming people; more accurately, conversations transform people.

So computation and conversation are ways of transforming. Numbers, people, futures?

:- Doug.

Humans need to think beyond safety to ascendency.

:- Doug.

If computation is transforming information, and if conversation is thinking together, how are their patterns related?

:- Doug.

Thinking together—conversing—adds a dimension. Two becomes Three. Or 2³. Now, something none of us brought can bubble up.

:- Doug.

Perhaps it is intelligence that allows us to appreciate complexity, diversity, beauty, conversation, and meaning. Perhaps it allows us to say perhaps.

:- Doug.

Just what is intelligence, and how is our picture of how it might be and become the one right picture?

:- Doug.

Is intelligence = computation = conversation? It is an attractive proposition. At least to me.

Computation seems to be designed to come to one correct answer. Intelligence however seems to leave room for chaos and emergence. So instead is this a continuum?

:- Doug.

My worry most recently has been that we lose diversity. Now it is that we have a danger of losing diversity in the mid-ranges of intelligence of matter, and do not give ourselves the chance to add infinite diversity. Infinite diversity seems like it should be possible, especially if we get to infinite intelligence. Intelligence ought to encompass all possibility.

:- Doug.

Some picture everything as computation. At this moment that seems similar to everything as conversation. Different language for the same phenomenon? It may not be a matter of adding computation (or intelligence, or consciousness) to matter, say to the stars, but rearranging things, doing work, becoming intimate. I wonder.

:- Doug.

Well enough: for a good long while we will understand the algorithms and machines they run, well enough to disable them.

:- Doug.

Maybe what distinguishes humans now is our tappable thumbs? A combination of agility and brain?

:- Doug.