David, thank you for this thoughtful essay. I've just finished Robin Wall Kimmerer's book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. She invites these questions: What if our metrics for well-being included birdsong, the crescendo of crickets on a summer evening, and neighbors calling to each other across the road? I'm interested in the idea of intelligence as an outcome in a future economy, but birdsong and neighbors calling across the road seem to invite more purpose as an aim (even though it seems those things might happen as an after effect in an intelligence economy?) Do we need them to be more of a target/measure to inspire and focus us? I also want to recommend to you a piece by Dorothy Sayers (theologian) that I return to repeatedly. She frames work as a purpose in and of itself. I.e., doing work matters to human life as it enables us to express our innate human gifts/talents/abilities. It may be in this intelligence-focused economy that this act of work takes the shape of hobby? At any rate, the essay may interest you. (https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Why_Work_Dorothy_Sayers.pdf) Thank you again for your inspiring work. —Shannon
It would be quite a waste for Creation to stop there, wouldn’t it?
For those curious minds asking “what are we here for?”, I recommend a peek into the Urantia Papers. DiscoverTheUB.com is a great place to start that journey. Enjoy being human!
David, thank you for this thoughtful essay. I've just finished Robin Wall Kimmerer's book The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World. She invites these questions: What if our metrics for well-being included birdsong, the crescendo of crickets on a summer evening, and neighbors calling to each other across the road? I'm interested in the idea of intelligence as an outcome in a future economy, but birdsong and neighbors calling across the road seem to invite more purpose as an aim (even though it seems those things might happen as an after effect in an intelligence economy?) Do we need them to be more of a target/measure to inspire and focus us? I also want to recommend to you a piece by Dorothy Sayers (theologian) that I return to repeatedly. She frames work as a purpose in and of itself. I.e., doing work matters to human life as it enables us to express our innate human gifts/talents/abilities. It may be in this intelligence-focused economy that this act of work takes the shape of hobby? At any rate, the essay may interest you. (https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Why_Work_Dorothy_Sayers.pdf) Thank you again for your inspiring work. —Shannon
It would be quite a waste for Creation to stop there, wouldn’t it?
For those curious minds asking “what are we here for?”, I recommend a peek into the Urantia Papers. DiscoverTheUB.com is a great place to start that journey. Enjoy being human!
And what do we do in the future with the techno fascist billionnaires that own this technology right now?