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What makes us humans better?

:- Doug.

As a service to the eleventh generation, witness. Them, us, the generations.

:- Doug.

Life pulls me forward!

:- Doug.

When I open, I am opened.

:- Doug.

Can, would, a machine ask forgiveness?

:- Doug.

I had proposed questions and stories addressed to individuals in the succeeding generations, if any. I was wrong. I left out community and especially conversation. Who are we together, and can we be better? Together? Organically?

:- Doug.

My life experience is my own; my parents’ feels like background, contributing to my basic worldview. My grandparents’ seems quaint, a distant, overarching philosophy.

:- Doug.

Some books and other writings require more mental effort than others. How do we engage our readers? Story? Questions? What do you think? What techniques have you used? To write deliberately in this manner—to engage one’s readers in an unending conversation—takes more effort than a lecture. Could it also be more rewarding—for the generations of readers? How could you improve on this train of thought? The questions asked have to be attractive, possible to tackle, and present a heightened level of challenge.

:- Doug.

Google-faced. We may all be. In one possible future. No, I don’t. What do you think it means? Might mean?

:- Doug.

Holding lots of meetings with people and their ideas, combined with thinking, produces new things. Enough will be of high quality to keep up.

:- Doug.

In meditation, it’s not how well you did, but that you did.

:- Doug.

I am more portal than archive.

:- Doug.

Wet, dry, and assisted: a way to categorize intelligence.

:- Doug.

People in a few centuries might be living for 200 years.
Does that mean that populations have ballooned? We not only have adults, babies are still arriving, and we have 3 or 5 generations of elders? Or will people start not having children, start choosing to die before they grow “too” old?

:- Doug.

Far-sight and “it does not matter” means we have smoothed out the hills and valleys, made the crooked ways straight.

:- Doug.

The first fruits of my day are my early morning thinking. Am I giving these to divinity?

:- Doug.

Pinpoint where your thinking rolled over to thought. From there, continue to think.

:- Doug.

I wrote this story for you.

:- Doug.

See that cloud? It is not where you think it is. What you see is past—if only speed of light instants past. What you hear is speed of sound past. What you feel might be years past. Your thoughts being reified thinking are also past. Running these through your imagination you craft decisions now. What do you conceive is real and now?

:- Doug.

This is the best of times to hone your storytelling.

:- Doug.

A better humanity does not arise from technology, but could arise within it. It must arise in the essence of humanity.

:- Doug.

A computer—machine intelligence—only thinks one way. Humans think many ways, and all at once, confusing ourselves. Checking ourselves. Amazing ourselves. Humans can be of two or more minds.

:- Doug.

Whether they live in utopia, dystopia, protopia, or some other future, what do our 11th generation grandchildren need to hear from us?

:- Doug.