The DuVersity - Chapter 12 from The Intelligent Enneagram
(Anthony G.E. Blake)
Where have we come from and where are we going?" is the question of every intelligence becoming aware of itself: Like every living being, we feel the force of history, the inexorable march of events, which drives us along, willy-nilly. Events on a vastly greater scale than that of our own lives shape our ends. Our own actions are encompassed by a design that emerges in the world process. Yet, on the scale of the biosphere within which we exist, collective human power has become a major factor. An individual, awakening to the situation, can find his greatest danger in the collective mass of humanity. This chaotic totality of more than five billion entities intervenes between ourselves and the greater cosmos.
When the pioneers of the Biosphere 2 project in Arizona-an attempt to mirror the complexity of the biosphere on a relatively minute scale within a few enclosed acres-asked one of their Russian precur sors, Professor Joseph Gitelson, for some guiding thoughts, he replied: "Have courage-and remember that man is the most unstable part of the biosphere." We can also quote the anonymous humorist who said: "Humans are just God's attempt to pass the Turing test." (The Turing test is the test that can determine whether a machine is intelligent.) . . . Rise of the Technosphere . . .
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