From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 16:36:50 MDT
Hubert writes
> Beautiful vision.
Thanks.
> A preliminary stage of that goal would be a kind of virtual riding
> out before breakfast which has always been one of my favourite dreams....
Nice vision yourself!
> I would not be interested in real omniscience though. I would rather call it
> a kind of *omni part taking* without the intention to rule over situations
> or people, an anarchical observer state in the Kantian sense of
> "interesselosem Wohlgefallen" (indifferent pleasure).
Well, to "know" as in "omniscience", is hardly to rule over situations!
This viewing---as you yourself so aptly described---is informative only---
(except over what's MINE, of course).
> The abuse that arises in animal brains while being logged into trillions of
> cameras is obvious. First we have to get rid of greed and lust for power.
> And I believe, this state of mind is much harder to achieve than a first
> class consciousness transfer or an omnipresent camera system. The
> moral obligation to appease reptile and monkey layers in our brains
> seems to be the more urgent task in my opinion.
How do you propose "we" do it?
As for me, I propose that it get done the same way that war and
violence themselves have diminished so strikingly in recent
centuries. Gradually societies and individuals find it less
profitable to use force to obtain their goals. Plot the per
capita involvement in war and crime over the past centuries
in the advanced nations, and the trend is clear.
Another option that I have no problem with is allowing parents
to select their children's genes. Even Mafiosi will go for the
"tough but fair" standard, and their children may opt for gentler
world yet genes.
Sorry, but I get nervous whenever people I disagree with politically
start to mention what might be proposals for governments to remold
society, or for top down solutions in general.
Lee
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