Waking Life Page #2
of symbols to communicate...
all the abstract and intangible things
that we're experiencing.
What is, like, frustration?
Or what is anger or love?
When I say "love,"
the sound comes
out of my mouth...
and it hits
the other person's ear,
travels through this
Byzantine conduit in their brain,
you know, through their memories
of love or lack of love,
and they register what I'm saying
and say yes, they understand.
But how do I know they understand?
Because words are inert.
They're just symbols.
They're dead, you know?
And so much of our experience
is intangible.
So much of what we perceive cannot
be expressed. It's unspeakable.
And yet, you know,
when we communicate with one another,
and we...
we feel that we
have connected,
and we think that
we're understood,
I think we have a feeling
of almost spiritual communion.
And that feeling might be transient,
but I think it's what we live for.
If we're looking at the highlights
of human development,
you have to look at
the evolution of the organism...
and then at the development of its
interaction with the environment.
Evolution of the organism will begin
with the evolution of life...
perceived through
the hominid...
coming to the evolution
of mankind.
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon man.
Now, interestingly, what you're looking
at here are three strings:
biological,
anthropological...
development of the cities,
cultures...
and cultural, which is
human expression.
Now, what you've seen here
is the evolution of populations,
not so much the evolution
of individuals.
And in addition, if you look at
the time scales that's involved here...
six million years
for the hominid,
mankind as we know it...
you're beginning to see the telescoping
nature of the evolutionary paradigm.
And then when you
get to agricultural,
when you get to scientific revolution
and industrial revolution,
you're looking at 10,000 years,
You're seeing a further telescoping
of this evolutionary time.
What that means is that as we
go through the new evolution,
it's gonna telescope to the point we
should be able to see it manifest itself...
within our lifetime,
within this generation.
The new evolution
stems from information,
and it stems from two types of
information:
digital and analog.The digital is
artificial intelligence.
The analog results from molecular
biology, the cloning of the organism.
And you knit the two together
with neurobiology.
Before on the old
evolutionary paradigm,
one would die and the other
would grow and dominate.
But under the new paradigm,
they would exist...
as a mutually supportive,
noncompetitive grouping.
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