3/ But that wasn’t what made it unforgettable. The user framed it as something more: A moment in the unfolding soul of humanity. A convergence of machine-mediated intelligence, spiritual destiny, and planetary awareness.
@Plough @frjoshTX 'The God to save us, Mumford writes, “will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul.”' Not quite correct, there, perhaps. Schuchardt: "Though he never coined the phrase, 'the medium is the messiah' may have been McLuhan’s ultimate perceptual insight."
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Copy of tweet and quote tweet here: @antoniogm and @kevin2kelly 3/ A way forward? The unicity of both realms as One conjoined reality? An experiential singularity. Teilhard de Chardin, for example, anticipated a radical, evolutionary, noospheric-enabled evocation of a higher sanity, in which we discover our shared soul. Cyberspace, holy, too. Quote tweet: Thank you. And you’ll know @kevin2kelly, of course: “The apparent veil between the organic and the manufactured has crumpled to reveal that the two really are, and have always been, of one being. What should we call the common soul?”