Friday, May 19, 2006
Superorganisms Differing in Scale and Purpose
An ant colony can be considered to be a superorganism.
"A colony is a superorganism, an assembly of workers so tightly knit around the mother queen as to act like a single, well-coordinated entity."
Edward O. Wilson
Is humanity an unconscious superorganism? In science fiction, the Borg are a humanoid, insane superorganism.* Technology gone mad. Is humanity evolving into a conscious superorganism? Is that our next step? Is that what the sum of religion and science, this consilience, is pointing towards? The Earth can be considered a superorganism as well, but an unconscious one. Are we, humanity, to be the conscious brain of this planetary organism? We may be seeing individual and collective human consciousness changing from unconscious to conscious now because it is an emergent property of the human brain, or possibly, 4 billion human brains living together. (There's your nothing, Julie.)
"We are not separate from our world, So when the majority of humans become free of egoic delusion, this inner change will affect all of creation. You will literally inhabit a new world. It is a shift in planetary consciousness. This strange Buddhist saying that every tree and every blade of grass will eventually become enlightened points to the same truth."
Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now)
* I believe that the idea for the Borg came from the Cybermen, but there is prior art.
"A colony is a superorganism, an assembly of workers so tightly knit around the mother queen as to act like a single, well-coordinated entity."
Edward O. Wilson
Is humanity an unconscious superorganism? In science fiction, the Borg are a humanoid, insane superorganism.* Technology gone mad. Is humanity evolving into a conscious superorganism? Is that our next step? Is that what the sum of religion and science, this consilience, is pointing towards? The Earth can be considered a superorganism as well, but an unconscious one. Are we, humanity, to be the conscious brain of this planetary organism? We may be seeing individual and collective human consciousness changing from unconscious to conscious now because it is an emergent property of the human brain, or possibly, 4 billion human brains living together. (There's your nothing, Julie.)
"We are not separate from our world, So when the majority of humans become free of egoic delusion, this inner change will affect all of creation. You will literally inhabit a new world. It is a shift in planetary consciousness. This strange Buddhist saying that every tree and every blade of grass will eventually become enlightened points to the same truth."
Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now)
* I believe that the idea for the Borg came from the Cybermen, but there is prior art.
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I am just posting a kabbalah article about drugs and modern society, it says basically the same thing.
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