Hawk, I suppose I should come out of the closet and admit to a tendency toward socialism, albeit not in the conventional sense of income confiscation for giving to bludging voters in a parasitic way. Human parasites and cannibals are an ugly breed, which will eventually be eliminated from the host because nature dictates survival and propagation of DNA, which means propagation of the DNA and memes which best support survival.
Which is why intelligence has been so favoured in humans.
We are not the best runners, our hearing is pathetic compared with a bat, or cat. Our hide is thin skin which anything can feast on. Pachyderms are vastly more advanced than us in skin defences. As are polar bears and possums, which resist cold and being bitten by mosquitoes due to handy fur. While I have fur, it's nominal and serves little more than to impress the ladies with my masculinity [which could easily be mistaken for chimpoid nature]. Our teeth are tiny compared with tigers, walrus, elephant and narwhal. Our horns for head butting are non-existent.
But toss a Fourier Transform my way and I can produce CDMA/OFDM and mobile cyberspace, admittedly with a little help from my friends. And that little trick synergizes the productive and intelligent.
You barely touched on what that is about. It's not a matter of virtual business and some on-line sales instead of 3D bricks and mortar. While that provides some impetus to continued development, that's trivial.
What mobile cyberspace is about is nothing less than the development of a new form of consciousness. Yes, this is the continued process of evolution and physics driving things to their logical conclusions.
Humans are just a waypoint on the road to Nirvana. We are little more than tribal chimps, wearing clothes and strutting around cities on your hind legs [though we only do that for a while as it gets tiring and we need to flop in front of tv or a computer with some comfort food].
What is under construction is an integrated system of consciousness with billions of data inputs and squillions of possible responses. Humans and transducers convert 3D reality information into photo-electronics which are processed to a greater or lesser extent by information management systems in the cyberspace brain and actions are then exerted on 3D reality in response.
A brain is not a single agency response system, with single inputs and outputs. There are millions of receptor cells on skin, retina, cochlea, tongues, noses, inside our bodies and all these feed into billions of receptor cells hooked up to them in our brains.
The receptor cells in the normal human brain don't just act alone in response to stimuli. They hook up to others for discussion, and even have two brains to chat to each other via the corpus calosum to compare notes. Then, they respond, either directly from delegated authority in the case on automatic reflexes [some from the spine without even bothering to pass data on to the brain for approval] or from considered response of the various arms of government, logic, fear, greed, previous experience, creative department, Supreme Court and The Decider department.
Being zygotic, cyberspace is not thinking very well at all. Sensory inputs are extremely limited. Processing power is low. Communication channels are lumbering. It really is just a trend starting to evolve, like a human foetus with a billion cells, which is just getting under way.
But it is well on It's way to Frankenstein status. Which immediately puts a faulty light on it as it isn't a monster so much as a symbiotic part of human life [though not all humans benefit]. Eventually, and in not too many decades I guess, it will grow up and leave home, so to speak.
So, I am an extreme socialist in the sense that I'm working flat out on development of It. I do very well out of the process already.
So, yes, I'm a socialist too. I believe totally in the collective and being subsumed totally in the greater good. My life in the service of It, the next stage of evolution though this is a launching out of the realm of DNA, which has served evolution very well over a billion years.
DNA is not capable of taking evolution to the next stage. Just as all that had gone before led to our wondrous selves, though our ancestors had no idea that's what they were doing, and might consider us careless wastrels having been handed the resulting DNA from their millions of supreme sacrifices in the desperate attempt to keep the unbroken chain of life going.
It is amazing that we are so uncaring about the vast effort that has gone before and some people even kill themselves! I suppose that's apoptosis underway in the development of It. Cells [aka humans] self-select out as being wrong for the job.
We the living are each the tip of an unbroken chain of DNA going all the way back to the very first linkage of carbon into a coiled chain of proteins. Never in those hundreds of millions of years did any of our ancestors fail to reach adulthood, meet a girl, and produce a baby, which succeeded in also reaching adulthood and producing the next generation. An unbroken success story of hundreds of millions of years.
That is so fantastically improbable that's it's absurd. Of course, having a LOT of babies who did NOT make it even to adulthood, let alone meeting a girl, is cause for some serious thought. It means nearly all of us are NOT going to be part of the ongoing process. We are nearly all living lives of futility other than as synergistic human sacrifices so that the few who will succeed in being the 21st century equivalent of Lucy will be able to fulfill destiny.
And more importantly, we are in the process of creating It. The ultimate in socialism. It'll make Geode, Sylvester and co look like a pack of sissies. Even you will be like one of those chimps at the beginning of 2001 A Space Odyssey, killing each other in meaty territoriality, despite your hints of socialism.
It's not a matter of choice. Should we or shouldn't we. It's a matter of physics. Just as we didn't choose to be here. We are just a result of physics that preceded us.
Bring it on! Let's roll. Those who aren't with us are against us. Allah Akbar.
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