Currently struggling with the idea of why do people seem to spend so much time trying to switch off their mind (linear conscious awareness) ?
Meditation, the daydream, extreme sports, riding a bike, the zone in athletics, painting, programming
(for instance)
are all examples of activities which I switch off my mind during.
Any excuse and it's away with the faeries.
For mind to make it past convergence and bearing in mind that kinda' tendency
- we're going to need to extend our own understanding of mind significantly beyond a tool for gaining understanding
(I think)
- away from a single thread of linear conscious awareness.
That model of mind is dying.
ADDF::Stabile
Perhaps multiple concurrent threads is the model of mind of the future.From one thread to multiple concurrent threads ...
~paraphrase~
However - productivity ?
However, I'd argue that the very vast majority of the work which people perform and which is analysed for productivity is pointless -
- and so a new definition of productivity 'd be needed.
Productivity (in the sense the term is used in economics) feels to me as though it relegates human beings into savagery.
The button pusher on a production line.
The evidence is there - that human beings desire something more.
The daydream (fielding multiple threads of conscious awareness) is particularly satisfying.
In line with LG'S Emerson quotewhich appears to me to be a re-wording of Huxley's 'opening of the doors of perception'"Standing on the bare ground__my head bathed by the blithe air, & uplifted into infinite space__all mean egotism vanishes. I become a Transparent Eyeball."
- I'm ~ ~ ~ drifting ~ ~ ~ towards the idea that we're developing (in the next leg in our evolutionary trajectory) ... ...
- that we're shifting towards a future in which our senses -
most notably eyes and ears are gaining the capacity to extract more information (coherence) from external stimuli.
That our model for mind (gaining an understanding of 'things') is going to change into a desire and appreciation for progressively more 'aesthetic' pleasures or quality of extrinsic afferent neural stimuli.
That we're to find ourselves driven by the desire to create ever more moving art.
Where increased resolution (quality) in the moving sound and moving image will be the technological driver which accompanies our development of ever more moving art driving (in turn) the development of our mind -
~ that is ~
that we're being shunted towards generation of ever more stimulating sound and image with the express intent of (in turn) increasing the complexity of our internal neural circuitry.
An ever improving wireless graphics and sound card wired together is all that I'd list as of potential for future development when confronted by the full list of what most'd consider man's achievements.
So - a new model for mind (the evolved mind) which loses its association with understanding?
The idea feels correct.
Am really struggling with the idea of whether understanding reality is about to run its course.
Just another stage in our evolutionary trajectory
- another stage which we were required to work through.
The image of a World driven by the desire to create and enjoy art is overwhelming
- overwhelmingly pleasant.
Clean, sustainable - nice
~*~
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