Thank you so much for this wonderful introduction, Mark. Let me formally welcome you to the TOK Society.
Let me also echo what you say here. It was a really fascinating and edifying conversation. You (along with Jeff Martineau, who also recently joined us) have so much knowledge and connections about so many key areas that I was thrilled to learn more about. I look forward to additional exchanges.
And I encourage folks to check out Mark's Center for Digital Life.
Basically, we are all concerned with the next phase transition, with the question being whether or not we can lead it with Wisdom (i.e., knowledge informed by values, leading to a vision).
Would write more, but am trying to check off a number of boxes prior to heading out of here!
Then I am back in action, and will have more freedom to engage!
Best,
Gregg
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Hello ToKers:
Over the weekend an old friend of mine posted a link to Gregg's PT blog/articles and I was lucky to catch him before he left town. We had a chance to talk yesterday when he generously invited me to join this fascinating group . . . !!
As I typically do when I'm in new place like this, I dig into the archives and, among many other things, this is what I found, "A central theme of this society is on how the human technology interface is going to change the landscape and essence of our beings in the next
50 years." Yes, that was Gregg speaking about an article in Atlantic by Henry Kissinger. As it turns out we know HA(n)K pretty well (even scanned his unpublished Harvard senior thesis, "The Meaning of History"). . . <g>
I suspect the what-does-technology-do-to-us? topic will be the one that I can contribute the most about, since I run the Center for the Study of Digital Life and our Mission Statement says, "We believe that digital technologies have generated a new psycho-technological environment, previously unknown to humans, which has already fundamentally reshaped our behaviors and attitudes."
www.digitallife.center
I'm a 70 year-old "strategic adviser" whose career was mostly in the computer industry and on Wall Street and the Center's co-founder is a retired Naval Intelligence officer, so you could say that we've seen the world (go round and round). My father was a historian of ancient mathematics and a protege of Norbert Wiener and together they coined the term "Cybernetics" in 1946. My undergraduate major (for a while) was "neuro-psychology," before I left pre-med and settled on "evolutionary genetics" and "Buddhist theology" (UW-Mad, 1970), followed by two never completed DD/PhDs: Theology (UofChicago) in Molecular Biology (UW-Mad).
I will hold off on making any substantive posts until Gregg returns from his well-deserved vacation but, as a preview, I was the "last student" of Julian Jaynes and have more recently been collaborating with Merlin Donald, the evolutionary neuro-psychologist who made Jaynes' work academically "respectable."
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.julianjaynes.org_conference_&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=9KOrOw8VYrS59RkDzhFNOTOtg4V9wXhLgENi9QPbUGE&s=OZypC73FzjDnOcvfLXuhS2zus1JyMPN7ptF7kK5qQY0&e=
When Gregg gets back, perhaps we can have a conversation about their work -- particularly the likelihood that we are now in a "fourth stage" in our cognitive evolution as a result of digital technology .
. . ??
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Origins-2DModern-2DMind-2DEvolution-2DCognition_dp_0674644840&d=DwIDaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=9KOrOw8VYrS59RkDzhFNOTOtg4V9wXhLgENi9QPbUGE&s=KG9JGQx-mYb6gSDO8iXXM347yEEIXCm5QIjUTNWD2G8&e=
Best,
Mark
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