Category Archives: Eldering
Across valleys and generations
Humanicity is the quality of being human: the silver thread running through us all: the still small song heard across the valleys and the generations. Humanity is the eternal mid-point: the egg and the poult: the past and the potential: … Continue reading
We need elders to dream
Humanity needs its elders to be dreamers, that is, poets. :- Doug.
Transformation information
Conversation a transformation of information? :- Doug.
Muddling higher
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.
Skills in far-sight, deep-sight
We, elders, are working on our skill in story; and we are working on our skills in far-sight and deep-sight. :- Doug.
What future humanity?
What sort of future humanity do you want? (Not future for.) What if you had a say? :- Doug.
Is subjective essential?
How essential to humanity is subjective experience? What of that ought we grow? :- Doug.
Fear of that future?
What is the fear and danger of that future? What is humanicity? :- Doug.
Cold metal and plastic
Instead of seeing developing futures as cold metal and plastic, let us deliberately install organic living new brain and mind helpers. :- Doug.
People are real plus
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. … Continue reading
Beyond safety
Humans need to think beyond safety to ascendency. :- Doug.
Patterns related?
If computation is transforming information, and if conversation is thinking together, how are their patterns related? :- Doug.
Bubbling dimensions
Thinking together—conversing—adds a dimension. Two becomes Three. Or 23. Now, something none of us brought can bubble up. :- Doug.
Allows perhaps
Perhaps it is intelligence that allows us to appreciate complexity, diversity, beauty, conversation, and meaning. Perhaps it allows us to say perhaps. :- Doug.
One right picture?
Just what is intelligence, and how is our picture of how it might be and become the one right picture? :- Doug.