The Big Picture

	
The Big Picture

[part of a history of metaphysics Anonymous]

1. Excluded Middle (1964-68) - Life is not black & white.
Polarities  dont balance. Yin & Yang transform each other.
    Crack in the Cosmic Egg. The end of  identification. Awareness  of
levels of abstraction. Man enters space. East meets west.

2. Expansion of Consciousness (1968-78)-  From existentialism to yoga, the
journey of consciousness. The long strange  trip. All is one. Unity.
Schrodenger's Cat is  let out of the bag.

3. Geodesics & Logistics (1975-80) - The forces and structures of nature
conform to geometric principles of parsimony.
     Building a new temple. Celebration of unity.
     New Age communion. Morphogenic resonance.

4. Recursion & Fractals (1980-85) - The process endlessly enfolds upon
itself     and rebirths to new levels. Bifurcation into      self-similar
diversity. Monstrous complexity.

5. Cognitive Metaphor (1985-90) - Computers & Internet establish a new
paradigm. Information theory and connectivity.
     Neural nets & distributed processing. Global      brain begins to
awaken.

6. Nanotechnology (1990-92) - The floor drops away into room at the bottom.
     Cognitive metaphor begins to recurse to lower      levels. Total
reassestment of limits of       physical reality required. The next
millenium
     begins to throw shadows.

6. Semantics & Memes (1990-95)- Issues of meaning and communication
dominate.
     Wharf & Korzibsky. Reshuffling of kerasses.
     Excluded middle rears its head again. Opinions      diverge. Cultural
relativity. Evolution &
     Religion at odds.

7. Self-organizing systems & Chaos Theory (1995-2000) - All is flux. Groups
dissolve into chaos but Attractors still       accrete. Evolution becomes a
major issue for     all complex systems.

8. Universe Algorhythm (2000-?) - Randomness, emergent order, enformy,
     metalevel recursion between software and       hardware, nested levels.
compression-expansion      codec, bridge from quantum to macro.
     Goedel & Exclusion Principle. Origins of space-     time. Local vs.
non-local and private vs.      public keys to universe algorhythm. All the
above concepts begin falling into place.
     Encryption & security become social issues.
     Global regulatory systems emerge. Contact with
     with ET a possibility.

9. Consciousness Explained (?-2020) - Science, religion, ufos, psychic
phenomena, mysticism etc. all become normalized      into accepted and
understood functional       aspects of human behavior. The birth of AI.
     Economics becomes logistics. Health, education,
     and welfare become trivial.

10. Creativity Unleashed (2020-?) - Merger of AI and human intelligence
     Who knows?

Swinton A. Roof

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