Had a good chat over dinner tonight, with Len. It was basically about ‘more perfect systems’ for this world and how they could be put in place. My personal vision is a very interconnected world of interdependent communities that are grouped around certain core beliefs. People would live more within a tribe-like group of around 200 people as a close community, instead of the many communities we live and participate in right now (work, free time, neighbourhood, etc.). This doesn’t mean that you don’t interact with people outside your tribe, but I’m getting into specifics…
A thing I have always struggled with, when it comes to utopic ideas, is how do you get there if you take the current society as a starting point? The last time I thought about this question is quite a while ago and I have since gotten more tech-oriented and I believe technology within the next few decades will radically alter global human culture. So probably this ‘more perfect system’ would come into place by being enabled by technology.
What if at some point we decide that it’s too risky to use our real bodies to interact with the world, such as suggested in the film Surrogates. There are already people who are trying to call a halt to handshaking, because it’s just too risky. Imagine if in the next few decades there are more and more viruses like SARS, bird flu, swine flu, etc. coming up, constantly threatening mankind’s health. Imagine if technology keeps growing exponentially… If we could put our bodies in safe suspension and create an avatar that interacts with a world that’s just as real as the current one, but organized in a more perfect way… I thought: “that would be great! Because we would know that the virtual world that our avatar lives in is not real, so we would be more relaxed about our (virtual) life circumstances”.
And then I thought… “but what if the reality our avatar lives in does become vital to us… what if we identify so much with that reality, that we forget about the actual reality where our consciousness lies”… And then it struck me: “what if this happened before?”
Who’s to say it didn’t.
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” – Albert Einstein
“A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.” – Gautama Buddha
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5 responses to “What If This Happened Before?”
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The last sentence in your comment it will be the start point of my opinion. living the present time is very important for getting this utopia life in near future. everyone dream for better world but we think of “that world as a dream” not as aim that is almost hear.
“ACT NOW” is maybe stupid way of sharing your experience and knowledge bud besides that there is also the idea of sharing is caring. so we don’t know that our idea is the hole that should be closed for someone to feel happy in his Utopian Reality. Few days ago I say that we decide what to choose from this virtual world even if that is the main reality and we decide on what basics we gonna create our True.
That what you say is very correct – we’ll be not sure about anything connected with the circle cause we don’t know were are we in that circle, even if we thing that we are in the beginning, the end (like doors) “of perceptions” or in the center..the circle is ON, so we should make things that will fulfill the matrix with our presence. … See More
3D avatar is the best way of seeing the things..we live in d past, HERE and in d future. 🙂 in same time (and all those parallel worlds between)
Amen, my friend! 🙂
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