10 - Everything is accelerating
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We,The People, are not happy
We start with people living in a cave 200 000 years ago. They share with animals a need to sleep and a need for food. It is not the first time Mother Nature is using humans. She has already tried several times in the last million years. Homo habilis, the Homo Heidelbergensis, the Cro Magnon, the Homo erectus, the Neanderthal and others. They have been dropped.
We, the Homo sapiens, are Nature’s 9th attempt. We don’t know if this is her way to keep improving herself or if this is her last attempt before she gives up. She has kept the Homo sapiens alive on planet Earth for more than 200 000 years. She showed a rare perseverance. We could not blame us if this was her last attempt.
Those people, in their caves, paid more attention to their body than to their soul. Their main concern was to survive. Food was their jail. We could say that it took 200 000 years for the Homo sapiens to escape their food prison.
Human evolution is accelerating:
We can become willing participants in our evolution instead of being unconscious contributors.
Human development is following a law of Nature. It is a long period of preparation leading to rapid changes. It is more than 200 000 years of slow preparation leading to 200 years of rapid development. In the preparation period we include using stones, mastering fire and using bronze. We went from using stones to using metals. The first stage of human development was limited to the material world. We did not have access to our 86 billion neurons.
We started an avalanche:
\In the last 200 years, many people moved to big cities. The internet improved communications. For the first time in our history the formation of some “network of the brains” became possible. It is also in the past 200 years that we have seen an explosion of new developments such as computers, television, satellites and GPS. The world’s population went from less than 1 billion to 8 billion.
This is more than a coincidence. There must be some connection between the concentration of the brains and a sudden explosion of discoveries. In the atomic bomb, the explosion occurs when you reach a critical mass. The same law of nature could apply to the human brains. Sudden developments happen when you reach a certain concentration of brain power. In the past 200 years, mankind has reached its critical mass.
If this is confirmed, our computers and our satellites are only a beginning. We are finally getting access to our 86 billion neurons. We had limited access to our brain like we have limited access to a software before you pay and get the password.
We associated the use of metals with ideas and added power. We used the horse to pull the plow. With the development of agriculture, we escaped our food jail. Computers and AI may be an attempt to escape the material world.
Ready for takeoff.
We knew of the rise and decline of past civilizations. Egypt, Geek, Rome dominated the world for many centuries. The decline of the Romans empire alone took 400 years.
More recently the evolution accelerated. The Portugal dominated the 15th century. Spain was leading the 16th century followed by The Netherland, France and England. These countries did in one century what took several centuries to Egypt, the Greeks and the Romans.
Today, it is the acceleration that is accelerating. After moving from the use of stones to the use of metals, we are moving from metals to ideas. Children are surprised to learn that their grandparents could survive without computers, TV, cellphones, cars, planes and satellites. We are even afraid that AI could make us lose control of human evolution. We thought that we were swimming in the river. We are now carried away but the current, worried about a possible waterfall.
There is hope:
We are learning how to use our neurons like we learn to drive a car. That requires higher consciousness and better control of what is good and bad. Thinking and consciousness are helping one another. We still have a body connecting our thinking with the laws of nature. It also makes us suffer when the bad prevails on the good. As long as our soul stays attached to our body, we may survive.
Nature is giving us a prevue of the life that humans could have in a few centuries with the full use of 86 billion neurons. The average human could be what we call today ‘a genius’. We have geniuses in mathematics, in chemistry, in music, in painting. Some are born that way. Some acquire it by accident. They are showing us what can be implemented in human body.
Mending our souls will not be easy.
-The first step is to detach ourselves from the material level. Money comes to mind because money can be exchanged for anything material. It was created to serve us, but we abused it. Our servant became our master. “Use but don’t abuse” is another law of nature that must be followed. The use of money should be limited to the exchange of one thing for another thing of the same value. Money should not be combined with time. We must get money out of the driver’s seat and keep it on the passenger seat where it belongs.
-The next step maybe to dominate our sadomasochism. We know that wars are not the best way to solve problems, but we keep practicing.
-The key to our accelerated evolution is an increase of consciousness. That can be achieved by developing the limited consciousness already at our disposal. The teacher who gives his students a problem of mathematics does not expect them to discover a new solution. He wants then to become conscious of a solution that already exists. The purpose of education is to improve consciousness. The arts may be a better tool than technology.
In short: Our way of thinking must change. Our notion of Good and Bad must change. The purpose of our life on earth must change. We must get out of Plato’s cave. We must free ourselves from the limitations of our body and the material world. We created a society governed by money. We must get out of this debt bondage and recover our freedom. We must look for a solution inside ourselves instead of searching outside.
By exploring other planets, we may discover other implementations of “life” that will change the way we look at humans.
We raise cows, sheep, and chickens for our own benefit. We may discover that some aliens are using us for their own benefit. For instance, they could bypass our critical brain like the hypnotists are doing and harvest the love that we produce.
Could we also have a critical mass of the soul?
What is happening while we are asleep? Could we keep remodeling our love, freedom, and consciousness? Could we have a puberty of the soul? Going through hard times in our life is an opportunity to reach deeper in our soul and bring to the surface what we need to face the day, one day at a time. We acquire something that will remain with us and become part of our personality. The result is called maturity. We could also call it consciousness.
That makes life on Earth a continuous process without beginning and end. The cells keep circulating in our body. Our body comes from a deviation in the cycles of many atoms. What we call our soul could be a deviation is the cycles of feelings, love, ideas and consciousness, like nature associates colors to make a scenery.
We made computers. That’s an achievement and we can be proud of it. Could that be proof of our superior thinking?
If you wish to understand the universe
think of energy, frequency and vibrations
Tesla
Maybe not! Computers are made of the association of millions of simple ideas coming from millions of different people. That does not mean that the human brain improved the day we started making computers. It only shows that we needed many people to put together many simple ideas.
Computers are following the general direction of human evolution. We started by making tools to go hunting. Those tools were simple objects. The next step was to make machines. That requires ideas using objects. With computers we keep moving from the material world to the non-physical world. With A.I. we are going one more step in the same direction. Humans are distancing themselves from the material world. What could be our next step? The development of our souls?
We search with our brain
but we find with our heart
Georges Sand
Every child is an artist
The problem is how to remain
an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Children seem to know all that. They don’t need logic. They sing, dance, paint and create shapes with modeling clay. They know that what is most important is not what we see. They decide in which world they want to live and create their own world. A cardboard can become a racing car.
Children could draw our attention to the importance of some aspects of our life that we are neglecting. We need schools where parents could go and learn from the children how to reactivate their imagination!