The more instantaneous our access to information, the higher the consciousness. Very Marshall McLuhan. I like it.
On May 11, 5:53 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I found it wonderful that slip disc started this discussion. and I > think only by this kind of communication and connectivity with each > other we can eventually achieve the collective mentality or whatever > it is that would in my eyes connect humans all over the globe and > allow them to think together and discuss and eventually make > decisions! > I wanted to read more into the answers before making my contribution, > but due to the lack of time I will just paste my ideas that I wrote > two weeks ago before I just forget about it. > > These are just ideas and brain storming about how to avoid war: > > "change the way politics is done, and the way decisions are made, also > decisions in industry because economy is the driving force. how can we > make the car industry for example decide to invest in environment > friendly technologies when just selling more cars with a hazardous > technology is more profitable? > > also the war industry is probably a big motor for the big wars to > happen, this is a problem too. the one who benefits from a war would > always want to make war. guarantee that this would not happen by > changing the system accordingly? having no private industries with > that potential? and maybe someday change the way humans function and > think? > achieve a system of wealth distribution among all humans. > it seems when war is profitable for some people, then it will probably > happen. we must first really understand why war happens, there are > different scenarios and reasonings, it's a complex process that needs > scientific analysis and understanding. > > but what can we contribute? we can use the internet. awaken more > awareness among humans from all nations. make a platform for us all to > communicate and relate to each other, because after all citizens are > the ultimate driving force and are capable of forcing politicians and > changing their destinies. we can use the internet to create this > collective mentality by communicating with each other and creating a > medium for us to express ourselves and maybe we will have a voice loud > enough to say no to war and stop it too." > > The bottomline is, and this has been pondering on my mind for a while > now as the only solution to many problems I find us facing, that we > must create a kind of global forum using the internet. This kind of > thing is probably not possible to achieve yet for the lack of capable > software, but I see things moving in this direction, as we are already > discussing issues on this forum from anywhere on earth. > > The important thing to achieve that I guess is the ability to organize > information and connect them with each other. short suggestion: > Relevant to this are a hypertext format that I saw Ted Nelson I think > in an old footage talking about, he created that in the 70s already. > I'm not sure whether it's Xanadu or maybe this is something else. Also > being able to give meanings to the words in the semantic web, and > having more connections. eventually as it's the goal of google to > organize all human knowledge, finding a way to really organize the > internet content in a way if you are looking for e.g. global warming > you would be able to track all articles written about it and all > related forums in an organized overview. And also having the web > imbedded in a communication medium such that when a person posts > something about any topic every human would be able to see and answer > but still every thing is managable and user friendly. It's about > intelligent organization and visualization of information such that > lots of info can be easily used when communicating with each other. > > this achieved then it would be very easy for people to talk about > world politics and have a clear way to express their opinions and > demands to politicians. also this way scientists would be able to > discuss issues from a scientific perspective and tell the politicians > where to go. and ultimately being connected with each other, we are no > enemies anymore.. > > On 25 Apr., 05:40, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We know of the Collective Intelligence and Collective subconscious > > concepts but can we ever achieve the Collective Mentality? > > Planet Earth, the CosmicWarZone, perpetually embroiled in conflict. > > Wherever you look for peace most likely you will findwar. Can we > > ever overcome this primordial instinct of waring? > > We have covered many areas of the mind, of dreams, quantum theorems, > > emotions and ideologies. Let's take a breather and take a serious > > look at how we can create an exchange of peaceful ideals by > > interlocking all of humanity within the collective intelligence. I > > know at first it appears as an oxymoron considering the collective > > idiocy that now dominates the earth realm. However, I think it might > > be possible to engage all of humanity within a Collective Mentality. > > > Do you think this is at all possible. By what method would you pursue > > this global metamorphosis? Are we as a global community doomed to > > perpetual waring? Is there a reason/point/goal for waring? Is there > > some spiritual aspect towarin that the elimination of another is of > > benefit? > > > I see no accomplishment inwarexcept death without any positive > > result other than rebuilding post destruction. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
