Wow, there was a lot in there! It's all really interesting stuff though and it's easy to digest, very accessible. AND you injected the personal element in there as well. I thought that worked very well. I liked the timing of the humor here. I'll admit, my mind was starting to wander a little bit, but that little flash of personable jocularity brought me back into it.Basically, the universe is always going to be a dick. It is always going to throw problems at you. This is inescapable. And in fact, the more complex your system becomes the more problems are going to be coming your way and the more information you’re going to need to stabilize the system, which is the pressure that will create a Global Brain.
I'm hoping to deliver more of that in the next parts. We will start to get into evolutionary anthropology soon so it will be more familiar to the stuff you're used to me writing, but it will get crazy in the last two posts about the Global Brain and the then some general thoughts about the future of intelligence. There is definitely some more humour in the parts 4 and 5. But our current political and religious systems are really easy to make fun of so ... I had good material to work with.Wow, there was a lot in there! It's all really interesting stuff though and it's easy to digest, very accessible.
that little flash of personable jocularity brought me back into it.