Thanks for sharing this, as it's exactly what I've been studying. Any other resources on big trends, global evolution, global brain, future of the net, all would be greatly appreciated. 

Here's some related points that might be obvious:

1) peace is only possible when the dominant purpose is shared by the whole group, and whenever part of a group adopts a purpose at odds with the rest, peace is impossible. I suppose the dominant shared purpose keeping the global peace is our foothold on material security, and self love. 

2) So far no common vision. Elon Musk to Mars, Bill Gates to global health, what else? Mine are: A) using data responsibally for societal and self awareness. B) using devices for emotional transparency, hopefully to facilitate honest signals and connection, and C) a scientific theory of consciousness for practical spirituality and ethics. We can justify rituals based on the placebo effect, for instance, and there's movement in that direction. 

2) intellectual humility compels some of us to restrain a great deal of purpose, towards the purpose of finding common understanding. If some aren't doing this, such an endeaver cannot win unless it has utility towards power over those who don't care. 

3) destruction and restructuring are always happening in degree, but, it gets bigger and bigger, towards greater organization. Some massive restructuring of civilization will happen soon, but with the web to support things, it shouldn't be as "physically" violent as ever before. No way. Still, weeds must always be pulled, but I don't claim to be the one to decide who counts as weeds (those who "don't bear fruit") . Evolution herself will, along with those evolution elects to bear that burden. 

On Tue, May 26, 2020, 6:14 PM Brent Cooper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Thanks for sharing Gregg. That Singularity book should already be available for download for anyone with academic access. That's how I get a lot of that stuff. So far this hasn't generated any interest... but understanding the "convergence" (and not just various singularities) is key for this decade. We need to be converging now, not emerging, or else more bad shit is going to emerge. 

Chance, there is nothing easy about paying attention to it (convergence), even though its ubiquitous. If anything, that makes it harder to see! 

Regards, 

Brent

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:45 PM Chance McDermott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I want to offer a second, less glib post and encourage eyes on these two links as well.  The art work is beautiful in the article

On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 5:20 AM Chance McDermott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Easy to pay attention to something that's always currently happening for eternity ;)

-Chance

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 8:50 AM Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Hi TOK List,

 

  You might be interested to know that there is a book coming out later this year on the Big History Threshold #9, framed at “The Singularity”. Here is the link: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030337292

 

  I found the link on TOK Society member Brent Cooper’s excellent article, The Meta-Convergence Continuum. It describes an important book, Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence, that he contributed as an editor and researcher to, which he summarized as follows:

 

I would describe it as semi-planned techno-opportunism, based on an AI convergence methodology with the understanding that a substantive paradigm shift is needed and is happening. The technological singularity is not a paradigm shift in itself, but requires a new social contract and worldview to match. This book takes a mostly positivistic view of technology combined with humanism, not “a social anthropological or political approach nor a technocratic one.” In this way, it attempts to outline a neutral methodology that accounts for all variables in the evolving context of smart cities to serve all actors and stakeholders equitably.

 

It is important to keep in mind that one of the unique features of the ToK System is that it provides a very clear understanding of the Digital Dimension as a new plane of complex adaptive behavior that will emerge in the 21^st Century and aligns with the Singularity and BH Threshold #9. I should also mention here that Cory David Barkers work on the Architectonic of Simulation is also relevant because it provides a novel way to categorize human knowing/knowledge schematics.  

 

I know that these comments may come across as a bit cryptic, but I am basically signaling the need to pay attention to the emergence of the singularity in the decades to come.

Best,
Gregg

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