It seems to me, that we are on the very verge of some great change. The world is heating up and each technological and scientific leap that we make ushers in the next. This is the time of the ouroboros. The snake has swallowed its tail, and the world is changing faster than our brief lives can accommodate. What might technology provide, that might open up our eyes and our minds so, that we may see and understand what our endeavors are revealing about the universe around us, and the possibilities that our conscious existence has to offer in the new era that is coming.
Great question! and I love the snake has swallowed its tail metaphor! I believe the greatest jump will come from the renewed interest in phenomenology, and I'll tell you why. Every discipline is realizing that they are suffering from a silo effect and the need to create holistic and interdisciplinary fields. Therefore, deep epistemological issues will surface as this question echoes increasingly. I personally believe that phenomenology has so much to offer since it is built from apodeicticity. It is also what Husserl had first promulgated in his L.I about using it as a technology, and one I have personally used to describe fields of learning and creativity themselves. I truly believe that phenomenology and complexity theory (systems theory) will rocket us forward!
Hi Larry,
I wonder if the Flynn Effect is evidence for Lamarckism?
I do think that technology can create a leap of creativity, and maybe also a leap on cognition and consciousness. Technology devices has smartphones, tablets, intelligent televisions and computers provided with internet acces allow us to be connected potencially with millions of human beings and tons of information 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This is, for sure, the first time in all the human history that this grade of instant conexion between human beings is taking place. And I do think that this situation can produce a leap in creativity and a fast individual and collective change in consciousness.
Another way of increasing creativity is creating safe and creative contexts where people can interact in a different way compared with the real life and expand their minds. This is the case of art festivals as the Burning Man. A couple of years ago I wrote a paper about the relationship between this kind of chaotic enviroment, the building of a support community and creativity, based on the ideas of the complexity sciences (chaos, self organization, massive interaction between elements etc), especifically linking those ideas with the Burning man Festival. You can find the paper on my researchgate page (unfortunately is only available in spanish for the moment).
Regarding this themes, tomorrow Columbia University’s Department of Religion and Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life is presenting a very interesting forum tomorrow, called "THE FOUNDERS SPEAK: BURNING MAN, TECHNOLOGY, RELIGION AND THE FUTURE ", featuring featuring panelists Larry Harvey (founder of Burning Man), John Perry Barlow (founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation) and Peter Hirshberg (disruptive cultures and technology expert). You can find the information here: http://www.burningmanproject.org/event/the-founders-speak-burning-man-technology-religion-and-the-future-new-york-ny#.UorJfydTddh.
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