Category Archives: Eldering

Is intelligence = computation = conversation? It is an attractive proposition. At least to me. Computation seems to be designed to come to one correct answer. Intelligence however seems to leave room for chaos and emergence. So instead is this … Continue reading →

My worry most recently has been that we lose diversity. Now it is that we have a danger of losing diversity in the mid-ranges of intelligence of matter, and do not give ourselves the chance to add infinite diversity. Infinite … Continue reading →

Well enough: for a good long while we will understand the algorithms and machines they run, well enough to disable them. :- Doug.

Leave room to grow. :- Doug.

Will algorithms be able to allow for, to promote, diversity? Is this an essential of humanicity? :- Doug.

We can tell stories. We have stories to tell. The stories can be of value to the 300-year grandchild elders. We ought to produce value for them. We have imperfect ideas about what their lives will be like. We can … Continue reading →

Give yourself a thinking project: write a story about it. :- Doug.

Which is tougher: purposely thinking or purposely not thinking? In this course we will do both. :- Doug.

Whatever humanicity does, what do we, elders living now, do? This picture that we ask the generations to think new thoughts, to tell new stories and new truths, is probably central. Goodness, truth, and beauty, these three not as constants … Continue reading →

It is our sacred task to think toward the 11th generation. :- Doug.

We tell stories so they will tell better stories. :- Doug.

Whatever the specifics may turn out to be, will we understand our bodies and minds well enough to improve? :- Doug.

Story may be a probabilistic fractal: where stories are applied with a dollop of randomness in each succeeding generation so that humanicity develops meaning. So we cannot, ought not, seek to bestow our truth on the generations. Better we can … Continue reading →

Stories initially are told random fashion. Then grandchildren self organize. :- Doug.

Books stay in our awareness longer than magazines, papers, and articles, in that order. Books can bring a longer perspective, an overview, and far-sight. :- Doug.

We may not get far. That’s no reason to not set out. The question is, What directions are fruitful? :- Doug.