Towards a Noetic Ecology ~ A long lecture on my graduate studies

Cultural evolution, cyborgs, technology & consciousness: exploring what possibilities our era brings to us.

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[thepathlesspath]

@MultiDeepwater Thank you my friend. :)

[thepathlesspath]

@QualiaAquarium Great question, and the response can go back and forth! I've had discussions with a good friend about this a few years back. We went back and forth ultimately. Technology can be seen as an expression of Nature, sure, perhaps not "biological" nature but certainly a Natural process; Emerson's nature, the Taoist "nature," etc. What is it about the Godhead that it reveals? In what way is it a hierophany?

[thepathlesspath]

@artsyou Yes there are changes abound - with digital technologies, time and space take on a new meaning and we gain a new relationship with them both. Gebser aptly described this turn as the "aperspectival," and its relationship with time would be *qualitative* rather than quantitative. Here's to a re-integration of a conscious, qualitative imagination to take part in the scientific and rational mind of our age. A truly intriguing and mandalic image of what truly our own nature is.

[MultiDeepwater]

brilliant discussion brother, sharing with those who will appreciate :-)

[QualiaAquarium]

I've always been in agreement with the idea that technology and nature are one in the same. Just as different natural elements of atmosphere come together to form something like rain, different natural humans come together to form something like technology. Technology is a product of nature, and therefore is indistinguishable from the rest of nature. People try to make dichotomies with weightless terms like "man-made", but isn't that synonymous with "nature-made"? Good ideas, good talk.

[artsyou]

Brilliant! If you explore the contribution of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, you will find his 20th century premise that humanity if :"confluently synthesising" towards what he termed the "Omega Point"... Formation of the global mind (Nooshere) was envisioned. and we now experience that as the Internet. Adding the compression of pyramidical time acceleration explained by Carl Calleman and Terrence MtKenna, we are indeed being formed into a new collective entity... thank you friend