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In what ways are we making our grandchildren obsolete?

:- Doug.

Ahead is a waterfall we’re about to shoot. It may be calm waters at the bottom, but where do we go? (If we make it?)

:- Doug.

Take a “What then” approach to futures, avoid getting stuck in specifics of how we get there. This freedom of view is what the 300 years gives.

:- Doug.

On futures

:- Doug.

Touching futures

:- Doug.

If we are an entity—what’s an entity? Possibly a pattern—and if information is a pattern, our conversations can be analogous to computations, that is, a rearrangement of patterns. And the dance is infinite. So what’s the dance of a universe-sized conversation/computation produce?

:- Doug.

Every step a start of a new path. A good start on a good way.

:- Doug.

I’m not teaching—I’m joining you in our expedition.

:- Doug.

If we might see God not as the eternal other, but as the eternal larger us, what then?

:- Doug.

Perhaps the most profound skill an elder can transmit is the skill to build a better world model.

:- Doug.

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.

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.