Transcendent Consciousness for Transcendent Technologies : Part I - Page 4

The most formidable part of his vision is to change the consciousness of people right from the home. He states that a noble citizen is created from a home and goes on to form a noble society and eventually a noble, or in this case, a “conscious” country. It is actually a very cellular approach which merits more attention. It really is the individual who goes on to form an entire system and not the other way around. Every individual brings in his/her survival skills into the system and the system improves or rather evolves as a result of this collective skills. Therefore, we can find very interesting relationships with our own behavior and that of the computer! Aurobindo and the Mother from India have always called for an Integral Yoga which calls for a integration of work  and the pursuit of a higher consciousness for a great transformation. 

It is therefore most important that we change the way we think and perceive things around us. The phenomena of globalization has taught us a great deal of how much influence culture and economy can have on totally unrelated communities. Wikipedia defines globalization as "...the increasing interconnectedness of people and places as a result of advances in transport, communication, and information technologies that cause political, economic, and cultural convergence." Convergence is most definitely going to be the catalyst towards a rapid acceleration of human progress. When the human species as a whole progresses, it shall help us maintain our presumed position in the ecological hierarchy within this planet and our survival in the vast universe.

EvolutionProgress of the Homo sapiens is to be made simultaneously from several angles. If the concept of the singularity were to be embraced with abandon, then it can be said that such a progress would have a tremendous acceleration. I as a human being am worried about one aspect of the singularity. Increasingly, the singularity is being interpreted more from the side of computer science and its technologies than other disciplines. In reality, it would be an integration of several disciplines that can bring about this state of singularity. Otherwise, there would be progress but with a slant towards only one prespective.

This could cause the collapse our entire system. Any tall building needs a strong foundation. For the tallest endeavour of the human species hailed as the singularity, the foundation of the exponential curve, the "S" curve, should have a proper foundation. Only then can the graphical acceleration be foreseen in the concrete world. It is extremely important for responsible futurists to not get deluded or fantasize about any one state where a collective effort is required.

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V.R.Manoj is currently pursuing his research (PhD) in Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, India. He is also an Intern with the Institute for Emerging Ethics in Technology (IEET). Manoj wishes to understand and encourage the social,philosophical …

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  • 1 - duane

    Nov 26, 2007 at 4:21 pm

    This is really a mess V.R. Sorry, but you're trying to cover too much. It's not coherent.

  • 2 - Raga

    Nov 26, 2007 at 7:18 pm

    It sounds like you are searching for answers to questions raised by modern science and philosophy. Might I suggest that you look into Matrixism. Matrixism is a religion/philosophy based on modern science. It draws from the movie The Matrix as well Aldous Huxley's The Doors of Perception and Island.

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