If We Are Fundamental To The Duality Of Energy, Of Course We're Special

A humanist has to say that certainly. As well as to say that we have had little chance to touch but a little of what we are really capable of.

That being said doesn't change the fact that we must still live life on a path of balance because we will still be frail, all too squishy, all too prone to fear, entities that sprung from the basis of biological life.

It's certainly going to take some time to work on that.

In the meantime, however, we must still do the one thing that is still a high mark for miracles to me: that anything could come into being, solely by the process of aggregation by interactive association, over time (lots and lots of time), so that ever more emerging complex structure could itself aggregate anew, for interactive association, to begin again to make new interactive pieces; that this process could then yield an entity able to make sentient choice. Able indeed to grasp the very idea of "getting a handle on things," so as to begin to understand that you can actually have your reach exceed your grasp.

Choice. And new instrumentality that makes choice about as absolutely important as anything can be because that ability to "exceed" now threatens the survival of all life as we know it. The problem then becomes how we go about encouraging the upbringing of good choice makers. And in that must there be now real Revolutionary thinking. And yes, with a capital R. Across the boards for life as we've known it in all of our social institutions. Because this is where we need to pivot to a new direction so that we can have a chance to actually realize the potential that we've yet to unlock in ourselves, even as we start looking out, and moving out, into the stars as we have never done before. All just more of the, quite difficult balancing act we're going to have to figure out how to do. A balancing act that will require compromise, and cooperation, with the many diverse meaning systems out there that currently motivate people now. And the sooner we get to that very difficult task the better.

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Our Attitude Toward Aliens Proves We Still Think We're Special

3 diggs nautil.us Human Nature

We presume ourselves to be so special that the question "Where is everybody as complex and important as ourselves (or more)?" cannot be taken seriously.