Exceed essence
Humans want to exceed our limits—this too is a human essence.
:- Doug.
Humans want to exceed our limits—this too is a human essence.
:- Doug.
The diseases we cannot fix with technology will be the tasks of humanity: people doing bad things to one another, leaving our elders lonely, bored, and useless, without someone to touch them, to need them.
:- Doug.
Convivium with touch of skin, conversing and intimacy, may be essentials of humanicity.
:- Doug.
Our minds are wormholes. The wormholes the science fiction writers have guessed. But better than that. Imagine a wormhole—that’s the wormhole!
:- Doug.
Inquiry tools:
What is our assumption base for this future we propose?
What can we know of it?
How can we find out more?
Why do we explore this?
How does this fit in with or break from history?
For what do we hope?
What are our philosophical bases for this inquiry? Are they appropriate?
What are the possible meanings of this future?
What are their natures, causes, consequences?
What are their deeper origins, formations, content, types?
What will we do about it?
:- Doug.