Wonderful article, Hans. Something I find interesting to reflect on is the potentiality of the human civilisation when we finally get a handle on peace. There are signs from philosophy, psychology and brain sciences that the collective de-traumatised human experience could create inventive power that itself is infinite or shall we say very very large. I intuit that it is only under these conditions that certain breakthroughs will occur e.g. efficient and effective space flight and exploration. On this planet however, the many necessary competent characteristics for every human being required to achieve a peaceful planet, will also provide the necessary applications to ecosystem details and flourishing while perfecting new more subtle energy technologies and resource farming. Going by the economic growth formula, this may also show a declining growth. The real question then is, if there is a flourishing ecosystem with a flourishing human planetary society but a declining economic growth, then maybe the whole model is transformed and we are not even using those measures to determine how we are doing. I have no answer for the future except in peace and human collaboration and deep consultation. I do have a sense of the great possibility that emerges from such a future. There is for this the possibility of a state of human designated by the idea that, when we think of 'who I am', could it be that who I am is the showing of everything and everyone in my experience. This leads to an idea of a 'shared brain'. I intuit the human future is infinite but not in the sense that we think of as resource infiniteness.
Wonderful article, Hans. Something I find interesting to reflect on is the potentiality of the human civilisation when we finally get a handle on peace. There are signs from philosophy, psychology and brain sciences that the collective de-traumatised human experience could create inventive power that itself is infinite or shall we say very very large. I intuit that it is only under these conditions that certain breakthroughs will occur e.g. efficient and effective space flight and exploration. On this planet however, the many necessary competent characteristics for every human being required to achieve a peaceful planet, will also provide the necessary applications to ecosystem details and flourishing while perfecting new more subtle energy technologies and resource farming. Going by the economic growth formula, this may also show a declining growth. The real question then is, if there is a flourishing ecosystem with a flourishing human planetary society but a declining economic growth, then maybe the whole model is transformed and we are not even using those measures to determine how we are doing. I have no answer for the future except in peace and human collaboration and deep consultation. I do have a sense of the great possibility that emerges from such a future. There is for this the possibility of a state of human designated by the idea that, when we think of 'who I am', could it be that who I am is the showing of everything and everyone in my experience. This leads to an idea of a 'shared brain'. I intuit the human future is infinite but not in the sense that we think of as resource infiniteness.