The Fate Of The Universe

Our Technology, Our Machines, Is Part Of Our Humanity. We Created Them To Extend Ourselves, And That Is What Is Unique About Human Beings.

All Of Our Schools Need To Bring 'learn From Doing' Into The Mainstream Education, Not Just Afternoon.

We Have The Means Right Now To Live Long Enough To Live Forever. Existing Knowledge Can Be Aggressively Applied To Dramatically Slow Down Aging Processes So We Can Still Be In Vital Health When The More Radical Life-extending Therapies From Biotechnology And Nanotechnology Become Available. But Most Baby Boomers Won't Make It Because They Are Unaware Of The Accelerating Aging Process In Their Bodies And The Opportunity To Intervene.

Intelligence Is: (a) The Most Complex Phenomenon In The Universe; Or (b) A Profoundly Simple Process. The Answer, Of Course, Is (c) Both Of The Above. It's Another One Of Those Great Dualities That Make Life Interesting.

To Transcend Means To "go Beyond," But This Need Not Compel Us To An Ornate Dualist View That Regards Transcendent Levels Of Reality (e.g., The Spiritual Level) To Be Not Of This World. We Can "go Beyond" The "ordinary" Powers Of The Material World Through The Power Of Patterns. Rather Than A Materialist, I Would Prefer To Consider Myself A "patternist." It's Through The Emergent Powers Of The Pattern That We Transcend.