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to the launching have global crisis and limiting
their population where do we preach population control
on the dash Pakistan why because that doesn't cause I S
any inconvenience yes if we would appeal to the women that the high-tech
industrial democracies
and do more than appeal to them offer them
incentives Council income tax the
cradle to the grave medical care pre lab today well right way and links to the
worldwide
wat wheatly campus
these are big *** over the population should we have to recognize
that it is related to
resource extraction and it is a problem driven by the consuming
policies in the high-tech industrial democracies
theme
of
the call for a gathering at the
I'll announcement part of the car in which brought you here
mentioned the edge of the millennium
at the edge of the millennium hand a so far
the millenium house band present by subtle implication alone
so I think through
honor our commitment will now try logon
the edge of the millennium is OK souter
now and I are just appeared in new book
the evolutionary my there is a chapter near the and called
forget what is called us about you tokenism
and millinery and as online to priori isms which altogether at up to you
an overdose all different approaches to the future
which are more or less classical and there we spoke extensively on
extrapolate a richer and literary tradition and industry
all utopia I'm and
military Under Armour so that
current utopian and military and stuff
is not what we're going to talk about in this trial Aug on warm
to introduce a completely different
notion of the millennium and
I am interested more particularly
and I print the millennium and
here's how it goes this is partly
up according to me a mathematical view of history
that brings up this particular version I love the idea or
up the millennium and/or
nevertheless other people have written a similar view
all history without any explicit recourse to mathematics so I think it's
pretty general the house to do
this view of history with the
approach we've taken toward biological evolution
that it goes forward and more catastrophe is in critical means
and I'm solo southern jobs the
punctuated equilibrium approach to history
says that history goes along and not kind about
level of play told developmentally speaking although there may be a gradual
development or down overall
and then every once in a while there is a big leap
the first to of
such view of history I think with that we know about was presented by the
ancient Egyptians
so this is I'll nothing new
know in my own work have
classified up some major
plateaus including
go and the last one the one that we're at the end of now according to my system
of history
began six thousand years ago or five thousand five hundred years ago
with the invention of the wheel and
the first city-state some stuff like that talking schumer
talking about a lonely out talking engine Egypt here hando
so that's a 6,000 your platter or other people
for example Bill Thompson somebody we
know and talk to you about world cultural history he has a similar scheme
in which
the plateau now or ending is only about three or four hundred years old
see there were the people who and who really wrote about this
explosion idea world cultural history was your call for work
for growth said the Renaissance was a quantum leap in world called for a PSP
and then other people said well
what about jutro know what about the truck
what about cultural and a
the truth is that whenever you
look at who major milestones in history and consider that between the milestones
to be a sort of a level road when somebody will come along
and friend of smaller milestone in there
nowadays we have fractal geometry so we think that this is me and I perot
between any two big catastrophe there will be times smaller rooms
between any two the smaller ones they'll be forty or fifty lower tier 1's and so
on
the first person I know who performance which are fractal idea of history that
it's not continuous it's a discontinuous but the discontinuities or more last
dance as a fractal for such person is you
Terrence I give you credit writing in my and Cherie
in the Encyclopedia of current you maybe have never read that book
never rested well there you go find your name
mentioned in a flattering way by me of all people immortality app will act as
well
a the fifth but
well to make a long story short distance though
controversy all plateaus of history that I'm going to call millennia
and then if you want to go back to chapter can have the evolutionary
mind and hurry there about the history of the millinery all
concept there and you'll see that the first one where Ian
the number one thousand was actually mention for the like the one of these
photos
gave his name to the thing that was
a special case %uh my more abstract idea millennium
it's a platter of history and what I mean by the age-old
well many of his those times when there's days snap O
from one equilibrium to another
pro menya all comes out of meander tile thats or whatever it is
and oxygen on comes out over
are key biological background whatever
and the interest of this according to me the Y why are we here
who will talk about the evolutionary mind who cares about
the good and evil and the evolution of species and so on
this must be interesting only through the degree in
to which it informs us in this very present moment
regarding our choices that we will make immigration in the future
so according to chaos theory and its so
partner 30 bifurcation this is one of the main things that is something like
the
butterfly effect that you've heard about and a dynamical system
or massively complex dynamical systems such as we live in
when there is a moment a bifurcation which is the technical math target for
the snaps
that is the only time you get to
do anything about the evolution of the system
so according to this self-inflating view
we live about especially important special moment in history
where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous
effect on the future
maybe not a direct determined to
affect but we can't really say what they are called be about
work we do has some influence on the creation in the future
more than other crimes and history and the bigger the Joe
the bigger the leverage where a comedian said give me a lever and I'll move the
world
we have a lever now
and we care about what's coming next so that's right
the there of the millennium
any job any other the already are is particularly important
for those revolutionary souls who want to make a change in
things with the special time a century or two centuries ago you could struggle
for the creation over chaos revolution and it would be impossible because
there were no computers around or there were no
movie makers in Hollywood or something i Romero
it takes more than we know about
to create a special opportunities and anyway that's what I mean by millennium
and that's what I mean by at the edge of the millennium and now this is
only a hypothesis for the sake of discussion but I kind of think that
this is very credible that we are now
at the Edgewood millennium therefore
we we have two discussed this and the question
that I'm going to war pose to youth group in terror
with this isn't too radical is
to what degree do you think actually that what we are doing now matters in
the creation of the future
and if the area's any possibility
that what we do matters in the creation future
what kind of future or what kind of change
are we trying to create and
to what degree what we're actually doing for example what we are talking about
today
what we're doing today to what degree could that possibly be
a real fact real benefit and
I'll creating the future that were created
in contrast to you other things that we might
to like go to the beach and pray or whatever
and particularly clap
dressed up here well that's what I'm not sure him
yes well I'm trying to make this easier for you because I think this might be
too difficult
as we flow I mean I think I said this morning
are maybe I didn't but I don't believe it and I've said it many times
South Station is an active cognitive that perhaps
so we do matter because to the degree that we are
ignorant fifty years in the in the Buddhist lexicon
we retiree universal progress toward some kind if in life
but the doctor number video this is standing for all time since
1800 BC do you agree that this is a special moment
yes I think so not only a special moment but the other thing I would call
people's attention to is the fact that no matter
whether you scam here waiting in here today no matter whether you're going to
go back to
are appliance box that you live
%um under a bridge the odds are
that you'll you are
very close to the top of the pyramid
of global empowerment you are
mostly quite mostly well-educated
mostly have enough disposable income
come to in the fam like this it's worth pointing out that fall that rides on the
fax
those who do not have such previously
and so yeah this is a moment of enormous opportunity and those who find
themselves in this modern
with power defying however care confinement
have a moral obligation a
to act and I don't know advocate a certain political in Jan
that not that we must become marxist so that we must become anything
what we must become is clear a
Remi have the technologies
and the information all structures and
all the necessary affair with peace to create
paradise on earth to lift up the least among us to at least
an acceptable up that level of comfort
and freedom why do we not do that
because what scams in our way is our own minds
our own happen we must trying
shower mine thats the most powerful political work
people in this room could do in there is nobody who is soul in like 10
that they don't move to work on themselves
and do this to the degree that we can change our minds
we will escape extinction marginality
and so forth and so on and to the degree that we cannot
change our minds we will prolong be adding
perhaps unto death and extinction perhaps
only make for the struggle more difficult but
yes this is a moment to think norm this a yes
we have a yes I guess so
we you agree that it's a moment of special opportunity over the long short
scale so
time according to you a either mathematics
or novelty very yes
and you agree that we have a responsibility to do our best
yes and do what you have to tell us his
that if the two hundred about here change our minds
that I work tomorrow I have an immunity ordered affect
and the rest to the world and our creation in the future yes
heil that how would it have
it's a madhouse by telepathic means
by the Romanow some photons