Response to Charles Eisenstein’s Critique of THRIVE
Charles Eisenstein, the author of Sacred Economics, has
written a critique
of my film THRIVE: What on Earth Will It Take? that has engendered much discussion. I
welcome this opportunity to have a broad and public conversation to look more
deeply into some very important issues that he and THRIVE raise.
Coevolution & The Technology of Desire
From one angle we are "the sex organs of technology" — the mushrooms sprouting up from a global mycelium of routers and electrical wiring. From another angle, we live in loving mutuality with a vast distributed intelligence that constantly reshapes itself to better fit our desires. Those of us born before emotional toys might balk at the idea, but we are swiftly approaching a newly in-spirited world where living machines make philosophical questions of sentience irrelevant.
Transcending Online Road Rage
Perusing the comments sections
of two articles on
Reality Sandwich and Evolver, I was struck by the abusive tone of
many commentators, a
tone I have encountered in other online forums. I refer to it as "road rage"
because there are parallels to vehicular aggression, which also
occurs in a dynamic, anonymous medium.
Trademarked Genes
A lawsuit is in process against the patent holders of genes that are known to detect early signs of breast and ovarian cancer.
Social Intelligence
As consciousness expands, we perceive more reality. As we see more, we are better informed about what we actually care about and what we honestly don't care for. Unfettered expansion of consciousness evolves into conscience, a code that guides us according to our vision, not the unconscious dictates of inherited moral considerations.
