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These are really conversations around and about one subject only which is
What in the world is going on?
What is going on?
I mean what does it mean to be?
Incarnate in a human body at the end of the 20th century in a squirrely culture like this
Trying to make sense of your your heritage your opportunities
the contents of the culture the contents of your own mind
He is it possible to have an overarching viewpoint. That is not somehow
canned or cultish or
self limited in its
approach in other words is it possible to cultivate an open mind and
sanity in the kind of
society and psychological environment
That we all share, and it grows daily and weekly as you know harder to do this
weirder to integrate more on your plate
to
Assimilate, and I certainly don't have final or even merely final answers. I think it all lies in
posing the questions in a certain way in
Feeling the data in a certain way and one of the things I try to convince people is it's not
necessary to achieve closure
With this stuff and in fact any ideological
Or belief system that offers closure meaning final answers is sure to be wrong
Sure to be self-limiting sure to be
Inadequate to the facts so one of the ideas I'd like to put out is that?
An amazing strange in this man, but perhaps not
the idea that
Ideology is not our friend
it is not a matter of choosing from a smartest board of ideologies and
Rejecting the flawed the self contradictory and this over simple in
favor of the un-- flawed the complex enough
Where is it written in adamantine that semi carnivorous monkeys can or should be?
capable of understanding reality that seems to me one of the first
delusion of
And one of the more prideful illusions of human culture that a final understanding
Is possible in the first place better? I think to try and frame?
questions which can do it
questions which cannot doer and leave off
Searching for answers because answers are like operating systems. They're being upgraded
Faster than you can keep up with it
I want to mention just a couple of things that are happening to sort of set the context. I mean this is the stuff I
worry about or think about
In the last 10 days if you have not been paying attention
Because the news has certainly been offering many different matters to claim your attention
But in the last 10 days a new solar system a new star system with three giant planets
has been
Discovered so this is a multiple planet solar system in epsilon
Andromeda
244 light-years away
What does that mean to us? Well it means that solar systems like our own are probably as as?
Common as popcorn on a theater floor
No reason to think not in fact right now
We know of 20 planets outside the solar system
Twice as many as we know inside the solar system, so we're living in a different world than
Everybody was living in even just five years ago
Science is lifting veils and opening doorways on a universe so vast so
strange so counterintuitive
That it's literally all you can do to keep up
Here's another factoid there are now more square miles of territory in virtual reality
Than the entire surface of the earth
Virtual reality is now larger than
This planet I don't know if you spend much time in VR. I spend a little time there
I was at looking at alpha world before I left, Hawaii
the opening screen is from
25,000 feet above out the world the entire thing cannot fit on the screen
Denver would fit on screen at an altitude of 25,000 feeds you could see the outline suburbs
But alpha world won't fit
That's how large a single world of virtual reality is and there are hundreds if not thousands
Being built being expanded being edited and changed as we speak
We're now just a
hair's breadth away from there being six billion people on this planet
Again, I checked on the internet before I left for something like a hundred million short so by the time I get back to Hawaii
In a month. We'll be over the six billion
mark
Then just to touch on a few things
The strongest hallasan engine known to science is legal free and easily grown totally
Limited in its distribution its accessibility are talking about alpha starvin Noreen now
quantum teleportation
has been achieved and is moving out of the laboratory and
Probably in the next half dozen years will be the basis of an entirely new kind of
computational machine with greater computing capacity than all the computers presently
Operating in North America, and had I have more time. I could just keep going with this
laundry list of shockers
The human world is exploding at the seams
human creativity and the
implementation of human invention and technologies is now at an
Accelerated fever pitch like nothing ever before seen in the history of the world well
Where is it leaving and how does one?
Integrate this stuff into one's own life. What does it mean about the experience of being human?
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