compassion, collaboration & cooperation iN transistion
The single most important thing that I learnt, very early on in my life, was
that all science and scientists, have eventually been proved wrong in their
analysis and understanding of the evolutionary processes of life on
[y]our pale blue dot. If I were asked to recommend but ONE and ONLY ONE,
2 hour long piece of FILM/VIDEO, to be watched by every last one of the
passengers of Spaceship Earth, as the supreme example of our intimate
“connessione” with the workings of our planet on a year by year basis, it
would be NOVA’s Earth from Space. The three persons to have established
the most significant threads of understanding, throughout my three score
years and ten, are Carl Gustav Jung, William L. Shirer and Robert Pirsig.
Jung because of the “glue of life ”, Shirer because of the “facts of life” and
Pirsig for the “reality of life”. Kurzweil was just one of the many that I have
followed, since first deciding at grammar school that Jung espoused the
way that I should follow and that Freud was already yesterday’s man. I was
attracted to Kurzweil by his commitment to the concept of simulated
reality, whilst being unconvinced of his AI proposals - I was part of the
team who compiled the very first tome on AI in the UK, whose final draft
and first print run made absolutely no reference whatsoever to
visual/aural communication; subsequent to my extensive involvement in
the BBC Computer Literacy Project, the OUP's OED and their urgent need
to improve on their words and pictures educational books by way of
what transpired to be their Volcano Videodisc Project, as a pre-cursor to
the OED CD-ROM Project. As a left-handed, gemini, dyslexic artist, whose
guidance on the subject came from Leonardo da Vinci, the AI Tome was
total rubbish to me. I know of Karl Pribam but do not know him. My focus
on William Shirer’s masterpiece, took me along the warp thread of Graves,
Beck & Cowan, Ken Wilber then SDi + MESHWORKS and eventually to
Elza Maalouf and Said Dalwani, whose work I believe, has already been
acknowledged by Bernie Sanders. In parallel to all of this my soul-mate,
Linnie and friends from grammar school all took to the route of medicine
for a career and Linnie qualified as a Radiographer. Needless to say we have
established a joint fascination, with the entirety of ourselves, which as a
result of reading Pirsig’s epics, have involved us with the thinking of the
LILA squad, the Dalai Lama, neurobiology and more recently Daniel Keown’s
“Spark in the Machine” concepts, in parallel to our practice of Taijiquan;
and that the human body is an ecosystem in itself, being home to trillions of
microbes, and just like animals, plants and trees in the forest, the
different kinds of microbes in and on [y]our body interact with each other.
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Here we are again all of these years later, [BE]ing encouraged to
believe that AI IS the next BIG THING so to speak when the
INTELLIGENCE that has brought US TO THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS
IS NOW proposing to CREATE an ARTIFICIAL VERSION of [IT]self !!!
THE WISDOM of THE ZEN DOCTRINE of MIND
ALL that I know about this TAO-at-centre multiple concentric
image is that it is based on the 5000 year old concept of the
I Ching and choosing the right TIME to ACT, utilising the
concept of Trigrams that are made up of three lines and these
can be unbroken (yang) or broken (yin). The lines signify the
two basic forces of the of the physical world, masculine yang
energy and the receptive, yielding , feminine yin energy. The
wisdom of yang and the compassion of yin unite to produce
an infinite number of outcomes. Think of the I Ching as China’s
accumulated wisdom and philosophy encapsulated within a
set of 64 linear symbols known as hexagrams.These lined
symbols describe situations experienced by mankind working
together with the forces of the universe. These forces are
described by the Chinese as the interactions of teen ti ten,
or heaven, earth and mankind.
The divine is not understood by these people
as part of a circular pattern emulating nature,
but it is now a linear theology of One shot.. either
up to heaven [with optional virgins] or down
to hell - Kelly Bell
NATURE is our religion, and the eternal cycle our holy book.
Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained
stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years.
A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages
as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when people first
found it useful about a thousand years ago. Today ginkgo biloba
[IS] beloved for the elegance of its leaves, prized for its edible nuts,
and revered for its longevity.
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