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Footprints in the Wind^sm # 1902

What do I want elders to do? Take a bigger view of their role for the grandchildren. Take responsibility for the grandchildren. Tell stories, play games, give their spirits. See and accept their central roles in the future of the human species.

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What were your last 3 dreams taken together telling you? Or if you do not remember dreams well, your last three movies or stories?

:- Doug.

Assume the basics, such as courage, love, beauty. Tell a story of the foibles and fables of you family lineage.

:- Doug.

Our sociological and organic direction have been toward ever larger: cells to plants and animals to Adam and Eve to tribes to nations; trades people to corporations; workers to unions to associations; individuals to Internet. Our technology has gone the other way, focusing on smaller and smaller, as if electrons and quarks were building blocks. Maybe these pictures are not true. Smashed atoms or smash datums—do either give us richer life? What if we split up people electronically, biologically, socially? Is there a larger that includes the small, local, exceptional? Is that possibly Reality?

:- Doug.

Maybe the machines and learned emergent algorithms will empower us to get beyond words and cognitive framing. For instance, can dreaming expand us?

:- Doug.

Is it possible to make sense of the novel? Making sense is inherently fitting into the pre-existing framework. Novelty is outside any pre-existing framework.

:- Doug.