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Dare we grow beyond
What we’re meant to be
To make our meaning?

:- Doug.

You are invited to come live in the futures.

:- Doug.

Make choices bigger than to get you through the day. You will have choices. Choose consequential.

:- Doug.

Humanicity seems to be about choosing. If our choices are large—life-shattering—we live. If inconsequential, we bore ourselves, meaning is lost. So a useless class, all needs met, has no choices, no meaning, no reason to live. Don’t choose well, choose valiantly.

Meaning and choice emerge from one another; their significance is ever at the same amplitude.

:- Doug.

As we reflect we posit meanings of ourselves, adding just a shard for others to propose their directions.

:- Doug.

As we hunger for insight we conspire with our reader three centuries on.

:- Doug.

At risk
Sunday meeting—my soul
workday—meals and roof
friends—intimacy and meaning
ever risk

:- Doug.

To discover
sniff
in a new direction

:- Doug.

Conversing is the major inter-neural sport!

:- Doug.

Humanity is an outgrowth of humanicity. We are unlikely to improve the core humanicity; we have a chance to improve humanity. The chance might be in utilizing inter-neural nets and dreams: converse.

:- Doug.

The idea of a useless class and machines taking over leaves us cold. What is this “cold?” It is a clue to humanicity.

:- Doug.

Is it possible we don’t know what life is about until the very end?

:- Doug.

We seem biologically incapable of consuming all the information we are producing. Or is it that much of it is empty calories?

:- Doug.

What value is there in what people 300 years ago knew? Instead, is there more value in what they felt? Is the most in what they dreamed? Can we even tap in? Can we become intelligent about intelligence, about what humanicity brings, remembering our strength is our weakness, our weakness our strength?

:- Doug.

Hebb’s rule some say says “neurons which fire together wire together.” Neural nets might be metaphor for people coming together so their brains wire together, helping us understand things from becoming friends to mob psychology.

:- Doug.

Elder
Experienced, venerable
Grandfathering, conversing, inviting
He was a surprise to us all
Me

:- Doug.

Right now, my course seems a jungle (a tangled growth), and my task is to weave a path through, or overhead, so others can make their ways.

:- Doug.

There is that word “still” again! As if holding on to the past skills is the key to better life.

:- Doug.

Look at all the writing about Why. Now to work on Who, What, and How. With whom do we converse, how, and especially what do we convey?

I have suggested the 11th generation of elders as Who. How is a mixture of our limits and our imaginations and is a matter of getting to it. What might be the biggest question.

:- Doug.

These insights overnight seem to lean toward important if not profound: Who are people and what is our arc? Can our limits propel us? Do our desires and aspirations travel time and generations? Dare we communicate? Dare we not? How selfish and lazy to not communicate!

:- Doug.

I need to give some thought to reaching people with different modes of perception: seeing, hearing, tasting, moving, touching, smelling, feeling, thinking. (These emerge for me as dimensions beyond height, width, depth, and time. Already, that totals 11 dimensions!)

One thing would be to encourage people to think and write in these dimensions so they can perhaps find a wider “aud”ience in the futures.

:- Doug.

We are collaborators on possibles. We are collaborators on futures. We are collaborators on humanicity.

:- Doug.

Who we are makes the things around us that we make. We cannot make anything that is not in us. Perhaps as well we cannot see anything that is not in us. Note well: there are universes in us. As the form expands the poet, so our limits us. If we recognize them.

:- Doug.