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Communication is the key to human intelligence
Modern Human beings are unquestionably more intelligent than animals, not that animals are not incredibly intelligent on their own, but humans have one key advantage over them: complex communication. Human beings invented language — the ability to communicate internal thought processes with others. This gives us the astounding ability to pass information from one generation to the next. It was only after human beings invented and began to use language that we truly stepped “out of the garden.” Language gave us the ability to communicate dualism, an idea that does not exist outside of the human mind. Animals do not abide by the rules of good and evil, they are simply instinctual. Humans on the other hand have almost given up our instincts entirely in favor of relying on information gained by others and passed on to us. When humans finally recognize the coalescence of humanity into a single functioning organism we will finally emerge from darkness.
In order to achieve this future, we must have unbounded communication between all living beings. This will come in a form similar to telepathy between all humans and possibly even lesser creatures. In the same way that single celled organisms self organized into multicellular organisms, multicellular organisms themselves will self organize into a so called "superorganism" that will have emergent properties native to individual human beings. We can draw parallels with the emergence of higher intelligence in ant colonies. The ants themselves have very low intelligence; the queen is in fact the least intelligent member of the colony. Yet, a colony as a whole can remember events that have happened to it in the past, and can even use its "memory" to deal with future problems. Barriers to this coalescence can be seen as barriers in communication. These barriers consist of misinformation or false information being spread as true, misunderstandings due to the imperfect nature of language or interpersonal relationships, and communication bias. Barriers form from unwillingness to accept new information based entirely on the results of old information. Decisions must always be based on the most accurate information regardless of dogma, bias etc.
Human language has progressed through several different stages of communication density. Originally humans communicated in the same ways as our ancestors, the apes. Apes communicate essentially the same as most other animals. They communicate through body language; this conclusion is the result of years of scientific research, and the training of apes to understand human sign language. Humans (as well as birds, dolphins, etc.) evolved with the ability to understand complex vocal communication. Thus language has emerged as a complex code used to understand vocal communication between humans. The next stage came with the invention of writing. Writing allowed us to not only communicate in the present, at a short distance (within range of hearing), but allowed communication across the entire earth and across time. Next came the printing press. This allowed information to be reproduced and disseminated to many more people than the few in possession of hand written texts. Next came the invention of the telegraph. The telegraph allowed communication to take place instantly over massive distances. The Internet represents the current change in human communication. By tying ones brain into the Internet we have access to all of the worlds information instantly. The next future level of integration comes with the direct communication between brains. Every single human could access the senses, thoughts, emotions, and memories of every other human instantly. We could also access the entire sum of all human knowledge instantaneously. This is the level at which we see true emergence of the next level of higher intelligence.
But who will lead our collective soul to this next level? It seems an entity can only become sovereign when no individual parts have absolute control of the entity. It controls itself. Human beings do not have a "man in the head" controlling us. We control ourselves as an emergent property of our connectedness. Control must be manifested in a bottom up fashion, not top down. In this same way an emergent entity is, or will be in control of all humans and most likely all life, as we know. The biosphere itself will wake up and take its rightful place as the Supreme Being. We are the universe, or the collective consciousness, and we are God — only together we can achieve our true unbroken form.
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Inspired by many of the intelligent minds here at space collective, as well as some older posts from huge-entity:
http://www.huge-entity.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=134&page=1
In order to achieve this future, we must have unbounded communication between all living beings. This will come in a form similar to telepathy between all humans and possibly even lesser creatures. In the same way that single celled organisms self organized into multicellular organisms, multicellular organisms themselves will self organize into a so called "superorganism" that will have emergent properties native to individual human beings. We can draw parallels with the emergence of higher intelligence in ant colonies. The ants themselves have very low intelligence; the queen is in fact the least intelligent member of the colony. Yet, a colony as a whole can remember events that have happened to it in the past, and can even use its "memory" to deal with future problems. Barriers to this coalescence can be seen as barriers in communication. These barriers consist of misinformation or false information being spread as true, misunderstandings due to the imperfect nature of language or interpersonal relationships, and communication bias. Barriers form from unwillingness to accept new information based entirely on the results of old information. Decisions must always be based on the most accurate information regardless of dogma, bias etc.
Human language has progressed through several different stages of communication density. Originally humans communicated in the same ways as our ancestors, the apes. Apes communicate essentially the same as most other animals. They communicate through body language; this conclusion is the result of years of scientific research, and the training of apes to understand human sign language. Humans (as well as birds, dolphins, etc.) evolved with the ability to understand complex vocal communication. Thus language has emerged as a complex code used to understand vocal communication between humans. The next stage came with the invention of writing. Writing allowed us to not only communicate in the present, at a short distance (within range of hearing), but allowed communication across the entire earth and across time. Next came the printing press. This allowed information to be reproduced and disseminated to many more people than the few in possession of hand written texts. Next came the invention of the telegraph. The telegraph allowed communication to take place instantly over massive distances. The Internet represents the current change in human communication. By tying ones brain into the Internet we have access to all of the worlds information instantly. The next future level of integration comes with the direct communication between brains. Every single human could access the senses, thoughts, emotions, and memories of every other human instantly. We could also access the entire sum of all human knowledge instantaneously. This is the level at which we see true emergence of the next level of higher intelligence.
But who will lead our collective soul to this next level? It seems an entity can only become sovereign when no individual parts have absolute control of the entity. It controls itself. Human beings do not have a "man in the head" controlling us. We control ourselves as an emergent property of our connectedness. Control must be manifested in a bottom up fashion, not top down. In this same way an emergent entity is, or will be in control of all humans and most likely all life, as we know. The biosphere itself will wake up and take its rightful place as the Supreme Being. We are the universe, or the collective consciousness, and we are God — only together we can achieve our true unbroken form.
———
Inspired by many of the intelligent minds here at space collective, as well as some older posts from huge-entity:
http://www.huge-entity.com/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=134&page=1
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