BLIND SPOT: HOLES IN OUR FUTURE

ABSTRACT Has anyone attempted an even rough sketch scenario for the rest of the 21st century? With almost everyone believing humans will be around in 2100, what might have been our history? This absence I call a Blind Spot: a Hole in Our Future. I bring this up because I have been working on one…

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CONCEPTION & INTUITION IN MORPHOGENESIS DESIGN – INTRO only

INTRODUCTION My initital title for this essay was Conceptualizing Meta Schemes, as distinct from Emotionalizing Meta Visions. My early exemplars are embryological development and educational futures emergence. The distinction I make between Conceptualizing and Intuiting is parallel to that made by Daniel Kahneman in his Slow/Fast distinction of fundamental human brain processes.  “Emotion” plays a…

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COMPREHENSION & UNDERSTANDING

(FIRST DRAFT COMPOSED 3/16/2013) DEFINING COMPREHENSION You can comprehend a topic/concept without having to believe in its “truth” or “possibility”.  Indeed, prior judgement as to truth or possibility is only valid from full comprehension; and details of comprehension can be used to argue falsity and impossibility. This distinction, when attempting to share with others, between…

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READING vs STUDY

Speculation: When one reads the usual agenda is to find information useful to the reader, that can be assimilated into their existing knowledge structure. When one studies the agenda is to discover a new pattern of reality, anticipating an accommodation by one’s knowledge structure.  The objective of study is more than to accumulate more data…

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GAIA WEEPS

        Gaia Weeps, Potentlal Seeps  – Away.         Will Humankind Uplift? It can, But will it?           NU, the Human/Gaian-bud/blossom flounders.         Humankind birthing Humanity is in question. Always a risk.         Every person drunk on self consciousness, a misunderstood gift;         Delusions of personal will-POWER drowns collective agency.         Earlier, tribal super successes…

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QUANTUM MECHANICS & VISUALIZATION

This was in an email sent to the person who loaned me the Pauli/Jung book. The Jung/Pauli book, Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgng Pauli and Carl Jung by Arthur I. Miller, although not well written IMHO, gave me deeper insight into the men who created QM.  They were almost all very…

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REALISTIC OPTIMISM

I claim, without arrogance, to be the most realistic optimistic that I know of.  Yet, most people see me as a pessimist, always harping about THE FUTURE (which almost everyone believes will be worse than today).     To most people, mention of the future, either short or long term, brings on expectations of negativity.  This…

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The USA Government is DEAD – Speculation

This is extreme for a reason. The parts of the Federal governmental system are still there, banging at each other and having consequences.  But, the whole as ceased functioning, it is dead. Sub-systems, such as The Pentagon and CIA continue relatively independent of the Three Branches, remain.  But, the hacking of rules and the psychological…

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