Should we throw away various tenets of existence? racism? the past? Summarize them as “past human stupidity” and move forward beyond the status quo?
I believe that to some extent we are at an edge of human knowledge at least as far as various memes are concerned. It seems trivial to take a meme, hash it, and come up with new memes. Some memes can be created. Some memes are emergent.
The blather that is on YouTube, while funny, seems to indicate this as a basic issue. Where do you want to go today Mr. Kaku and other respected geniuses of the world? Your colliders are surely fun, useful, and interesting, but I suggest that we can do better. I do not see a future of malls on the moon… while the ladies may enjoy that, the feasibility of such while there are people starving seems a bit annoying. Starving people should have access to a wonderful existence the same way that others do. Everyone should have basic needs met…. with or without work. There have to be ways to create this kind of reality if we’d all just get beyond our petty differences and the concept of money in general. Life as art… life as blisss… life as ecstasy… life as fantasy… there have to be ways to do this.
Do we as a race hold ourselves back by holding on to the past? Law is one area that seems to sorely need an upgrade. Law is essentially a set of protocols. Protocols can be automated. To some extent law is automated however there are aspects of law that need to come under the purview of philosophers instead of attorneys. How can one practice any kind of law regarding the ultimate good, if one does not deeply practice philosophy and study of the human mind, society, the world at large, and the extents of human possibilities. It’s the year 2010 for Christ’s sake.
All of our life preserving and destructive toys will eventually come to good use but I believe that the use will be in a form that is far different than we are all accustomed to and we can still preserve the sanctity of life, the notion of our souls, and the notion of living.
We put a man on the moon when my father was in school. Where’s my Millenium Falcon? It would cost too much to build… few could afford it… but everyone can have one… inside of a different reality. Maybe computers have it the right way around… to live in the matrix… a multiplicity of various matrixes. Toy Story memehashed with Battlestar Galactica perhaps.
Can we bring the future if we can all stop talking about the past so much and the way it always was. How about the way it is, or the ways it could be? Our legal underpinnings are bound in Egyptian and religious teachings… whether we want to admit it or not. There are better ways to do things… these ways have served us well for quite some time but perhaps it is time to consider alternatives. If Egyptians dealt with higher beings, one would have to surmise that these higher beings certainly had the capacity to imagine… and imagine a great many things. Human imagination alone is extremely powerful. Why is it implausible for our imagination to not be possible other than greed, stupidity, and sheer lack of trying to create a better reality.