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Floatbox  ·  4141 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pathway to the Global Brain (part 4/5): Entering the Global Brain

Here's what you inspired me to write today:

    In all our asking about,
    in all our defining of --
    that network of responses -- we find
    the macro consciousness
    emerges from the search
    engine as itself, intelligible,
    living.
and

    We, the neurons
    demand of our esteemed institutions
    respect! Respect
    
    of the unrecorded, the unsearchable,
    the offline and the encrypted
    information, in other words known
    
    as subconscious
    
    information, as sacred 
    in the face of the ever steady march
    towards a concept
    
    of absolute consciousness 
    resembling 
    that of an utter explosion!
I like what you are doing. I also think there's much more room to explore here, especially when it comes to the unrestrained futurism on display. Like books worth of exploration.

Some immediate questions: how does capitalism and it's tendency to concentrate power in certain cases (eg: military industrial complex) fit into your vision of decentralized everything? What is the organizing principle integrating the disparate parts? In the brain, we have the self-model as subjective experience -- maybe it is Google? Given so much of our individual identity, behavior and experience is set in the stone of reality, and given a future without limits, what could be our anchor?