The Singularity?
In Social Studies 10 lecture today, we learned about capitalists and communists. And the capitalists thought that the evolution of society was complete with the free market, because it maximized individual liberation and concomitantly societal benefit/production. And Marx said, whoa, hold on, maybe we can still free ourselves from the very system of capitalism, and then be even more free w/r/t production/consumption. But there was still teleological focus on the "species being."
Was this the same kind of narrow-mindedness about the state of social evolution that Marx started out critiquing? Perhaps, if you think that the Singularity is coming. Communism didn't really work out... people free-rode and took political advantage. Could there be a next step of biological liberation that allowed us to transcend even these problems? When "society" becomes a massive de-individuated grid of computers?
Essentially, my thinking right now is that this social/historical evolution that the dude talked about today is perhaps a missing (or simply lower-level/hightened microscope power) link in Kurzweil's more universal theory of the evolution of information in the universe (physical/chemical -> biological -> intelligent -> technological ->). Does "social" or "rational" belong somewhere in there between intelligence and technology? You tell me.
I am willing to bet that all of the above is totally crazy, and a result of my having gotten one hour of real sleep last night.
P.S. Debate?
Was this the same kind of narrow-mindedness about the state of social evolution that Marx started out critiquing? Perhaps, if you think that the Singularity is coming. Communism didn't really work out... people free-rode and took political advantage. Could there be a next step of biological liberation that allowed us to transcend even these problems? When "society" becomes a massive de-individuated grid of computers?
Essentially, my thinking right now is that this social/historical evolution that the dude talked about today is perhaps a missing (or simply lower-level/hightened microscope power) link in Kurzweil's more universal theory of the evolution of information in the universe (physical/chemical -> biological -> intelligent -> technological ->). Does "social" or "rational" belong somewhere in there between intelligence and technology? You tell me.
I am willing to bet that all of the above is totally crazy, and a result of my having gotten one hour of real sleep last night.
P.S. Debate?