@jdj_writes Given your wonderful paper on 'Ensouling the Media', which the Great Algorithm in the Sky dropped into my email inbox, of all places, today, perhaps you might appreciate the perspective following.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with unnamed hitchhiking passenger quoted Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: It's 1995 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1453077589338198017 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. It’s 1995. A hitch-hiking day-laborer, morning-drunk, asks me why I’m headed toward UCSC and Ralph H. Abraham. Judging him, I try opaque deflection: “To talk about the shift to a collective consciousness.” “Oh,” my passenger replies, “That’s the next step in evolution, isn’t it?” t.co/0XHOBpWcUz
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge with unnamed hitchhiking passenger quoted Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: It's 1995 Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Copy of tweet here: Lovely. Was driving to a first-time rendez-vous with Lindisfarne fellow Ralph Abraham, one of the founders of chaos theory, and authoritative on Teilhard de Chardin's concept of planetary consciousness consolidation as it relates to the Cloud, when I stopped for a hitchhike: It’s 1995. A hitch-hiking day-laborer, morning-drunk, asks me why I’m headed toward UCSC and Ralph H. Abraham. Judging him, I try opaque deflection: “To talk about the shift to a collective consciousness.” “Oh,” my passenger replies, “That’s the next step in evolution, isn’t it?”r... QT: Dedicated to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 - Frontspiece to The Web Empowerment Book, 1995, co-authored by Ralph Abraham, author of CHAOS, GAIA, EROS: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of History, 1994.
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Book dedication and bibliographic caption; John Perry Barlow quoted Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: Dedicated to Pierre Teilhard / Frontspiece / Barlow / interview December 1994 Source: archive.nickroutledge.org/post/1729687173513818445 Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. Teilhard saw the Net coming more than half a century before it arrived. He believed this vast thinking membrane would ultimately coalesce into "the living unity of a single tissue" containing our collective thoughts and experiences. In his magnum opus, The Phenomenon of Man, Teilhard wrote, "Is this not like some great body which is being born - with its limbs, its nervous system, its perceptive organs, its memory - the body in fact of that great living Thing which had to come to fulfill the ambitions aroused in the reflective being by the newly acquired consciousness?" "What Teilhard was saying here can easily be summed up in a few words," says John Perry Barlow. "The Point of all evolution up to this stage is the creation of a collective organism of Mind." - Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg: "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain," in Wired 3.06, June 1995 Dedicated to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin 1881-1955 - Frontspiece to The Web Empowerment Book, 1995, co-authored by Ralph Abraham, author of CHAOS, GAIA, EROS: A Chaos Pioneer Uncovers the Three Great Streams of History, 1994. Barlow: "It's a little odd that the great Ralph Abraham would be writing a Web guide." - An excerpt from the tape transcript of an interview between John Perry Barlow and Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg, December 1994 We're creating what Teilhard de Chardin called the "noosphere" - a mind world that's totally our own product. And yet the mind world does change the material world, because every time a part of the mind world is sufficiently accurate, it can be duplicated in the material world, and we've got a new tool, a machine, a new technology tht will do things we couldn't do before. - Closing remark by Robert Anton Wilson, in an interview with Magical Blend, issue #48, September 1995. As Abraham points out, Teilhard complexity-consciousness law is the same as what we now think of as the neural net. "We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task." If one accepts this power of connections, then the planetary neural-network of the Internet is fertile soil for the emergence of a global intelligence. ...We stand today at the beginning of Teilhard's third phase of evolution, the moment at which the world is covered with the incandescent glow of consciousness. Teilhard characterized this as "evolution becoming conscious of itself." The Net, that great collectivizer of minds, is the primary tool for our emergence into the third phase. "With cyberspace, we are, in effect, hard-wiring the collective consciousness," says Barlow. ...In introducing the idea of tangential energy - the energy of consciousness - as a primary factor in evolution, Teilhard opened the door for a new level of meaning. The history of the world, he wrote, "would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts." This could very well be what the Net is doing - consolidating our instincts - so that consciousness can continue to develop. ...When that happens, Teilhard wrote, "we have the beginning of a new age. The earth 'gets a new skin.' Better still, it finds its soul." - Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg: "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain," in Wired 3.06, June 1995 At first we described the purpose of the Electronic Frontier Foundation to be, simply, the "civilization of Cyberspace." Now, after almost two years of operation, we also think of ourselves assisting in some Great Work, creating what may be nothing less than the united Mind of Humanity, hard-wiring the collective organism of human consciousness. - John Perry Barlow in Leaving the Physical World, an article he wrote for the Conference on HyperNetworking, Oita, Japan As Barlow says, "Teilhard's work is about creating a consciousness so profound it will make good company for God itself." - Jennifer Cobb Kreisberg: "A Globe, Clothing Itself with a Brain," in Wired 3.06, June 1995 map NR - Last updated: July 9th, 1995
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Pictured speaker / quoted attribution: Nick Routledge Saved source record associated with pictured writing; full saved record, not an exact pictured excerpt. Passage boundary: An evolutionary threshold Source: Preserve quoted-author distinctions; the containing tweet does not confer authorship. @nils_gilman An evolutionary threshold long anticipated and astutely interpreted as a bifurcation point of sorts, where the great surge of a gathering, synthesis and integration of universal understanding, ultimately concresces in a sunburst of revelation transcending the mystery of history.
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