[MD] Intellect's Symposium

[David Thomas]

Knoo,

On 1/28/10 4:27 AM, "Khoo Hock Aun" <khoohockaun at gmail.com> wrote:

> We are treading close to the Conscious Evolution of Barbara Max Hubbarb

I too am concerned that poor little rich girl Barbara is a bit out on the
looney fringe. But one thing that I find valuable in the term "Conscious
Evolution" is the need to become more and more aware of the relationships
between changes in the environment (across all levels) and evolutionary
changes in life itself. Hopefully we will move from "Unconsciously" changing
the environment not knowing or understanding the consequences to being more
and more "Conscious" of the significance of these changes have at all
levels.

> As Barbara Hubbard would put it, humanity now stands on the brink of
> fundamentally determining its own evolution, and Peter Russell's global
> brain offers a vista of what the world would be like when humanity arrives
> at a "stable" population of 10 billion sometime in 2050 with the population
> of the Earth organised, connected and specialised in a critical mass that
> would take us into the plane of global consciousness

The concern IMHO is that when observing the level structure of MoQ as each
level emerges they have the tendency to be more dynamic, but also less
stable. So as the complexity, connectedness, and specialization increase
globally any instability locally has the potential to crash the whole
system. We just had a taste of that with a misstep in US real estate
financing affecting world economic stability. Couple that with our lack of
understanding of the real consequences our ongoing changes in our
environment physically,biologically,socially and intellectually is have on
us and all other life on the planet is indeed scary.

Dave