On Mon, 11 Dec 1995 PeterVS1@aol.com wrote:
> Replying to LO4056 --
[snip]
> We need to get past the homocentric paradigm that places us in the center
> of everything and recognize that we are to the point where our
> organizations, our technologies, and many of our other artifacts have
> reached a level of complexity where they truly have taken on a life of
> their own. I believe that we have reached a point in our evolution where
> we as human beings are on the verge of forming (or perhaps already have) a
> truly symbiotic relationship with our technological and economic systems.
> No longer do we as humans have absolute control of these systems. At the
> same time, they do not have absolute control over us.
>
> Evolutionary pressures are driving us as a species further and further
> into that symbiotic relationship and breaking out of that relationship
> would be devastating to the human population.
Thank you Peter, for an eloquent invitation to a new vision of what we are
engaged in. This, to my mind, qualifies as exploring an "anomoly" in Kent
Myers terms. It is a perspective outside of the "paradigm" of control
which is our legacy. It brings to mind issues such as "faith" (though not
in a knowable doctrine), "surrender", "spirit", "unity through diversity",
"purpose" and more--terms and concepts which I find much often in the
ancient traditions of wisdom than in conventional modern science. I doubt
that "reality" has changed all that much, perhaps it has just taken us
this long to get back home to the mysteries... Dare we trust in the
outcomes??
-- Tobin Quereau quereau@austin.cc.tx.us