Craig, Well if the fate of the MoQ depends upon it, I'll do my best to answer,
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 11:35 PM, Craig Erb <[email protected]> wrote: > > In 2007 Alan Weisman wrotea book entitled The World Without Us. It > examined from a scientific SOM perspective what the world would be like > without us: skyscrapers would fall, dams would crumble, etc. We can do > better from an MoQ perspective. Imagine the human race dying out. As > populations shrunk, there would be diminished opportunity for division of > labor. Survival would be paramount: intellectual and artistic endeavors > would fade away. John: I'm not sure about that Craig. Survival has always been an important consideration through out the history of man. But art and philosophy have persisted in their many forms. But I agree that if everybody dies, it would die with them. I hear that the levels are independent of actual individuals but I doubt they are all that independent to keep on going after the humans are gone. Craig: > Large scale social institutions like nations and universities would > devolve into villages and one-on-one mentoring. Eventually there would be > the last surviving person straining to remember what made him human. And > inevitably that person would die. What would be left? > > I iron filings still value movement towards magnets; amoebae still back > away from acid; platypi still mate with other platypi > > II There is reality but no differentiation > > III Reality ceases > > The future of the MoQ depends on the answer. > Dr. Lanza would disagree. He says reality is based upon animal perception. as long as there are animals, there's a reality. John Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
