Re: [ga] Noosphere

[JFC Morfin <jefsey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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At 17:32 20/05/2006, Richard Henderson wrote:

> I took a few months backing off from ICANN and issues of net 
> governance with their preposterous assumptions of control by a 
> centre which is? really? just one arbitrary centre but not 
> necessarily my centre or your centre. Because this linear concept of 
> a top-down administration of the internet misunderstands the human 
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> Millions of desktops ? an expression of a deeper noosphere ? cannot 
> ultimately be constrained by governmental interventions or shadow 
> agencies of a superpower. The imagination of the human mind, in the 
> end, is boundless? boundless at least in physical terms? and the 
> interactions of hundreds of thousands of human minds and hearts 
> creates an evolving network (or more correctly, a network of 
> networks) which is the bottom-up assertion of freedom and power? 
> power let loose in potentially astonishing ways, creative ways, and 
> free of control from patriarchs and the centre.
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> We grow more and more aware ? scientifically or theologically ? of 
> the multiplicities that emerge and interact? in society, in 
> communities, in the mind? creating or evolving towards a noosphere 
> of the new millennium. One day, each user will have the chance to 
> realise a network emanating from his/her own desktop as an 
> expression of choice and sharing of identity. A multiplicity of 
> universes and lives if you like. We can do it even today.
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> The Jesuit theologian Teilhard de Chardin spoke of the "ordered 
> complexification" of life and the evolutionary destiny of the human 
> race towards a noosphere ? an existence of mind and consciousness 
> and conscience and thinking awareness ? and this 'seeding' of 
> multiplicities is mirrored in the diversity of the internet (or, 
> rather, internets).
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> Our human species is near a critical point ? with the potential to 
> destroy itself and negate its own destiny ? and yet also the 
> potential to claim its own genius and intelligence, a sort of 
> carnival of diversity, a celebration of overlapping networks, a 
> great step forward beyond national boundaries and rivalries? an 
> opening out of shared interests and recalcitrant faith?
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> In this context, ICANN is like a dinosaur? a shadow organisation of 
> a power bloc? claiming for itself an authority and influence which 
> belongs to the human hearts and minds of the whole species as they 
> ceaselessly network, ceaselessly create, ceaselessly dream, 
> ceaselessly love? the human spirit? the evolution of our race? 
> cannot be caged? it is endlessly renewing itself.
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> Let us call it the "At Large" if you like? the human spirit "at 
> large"? on the run from central control? anarchic at times, feared 
> by those who need to "control", the human race networking and 
> exploring the noosphere of the developing mind. We network because 
> we are human, because it is what we do, because in a multiplicity of 
> multiplicities we re-encounter ourselves.
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> In the end, every desktop will direct and develop its own universe 
> or multiverses. In the end, the marginalised "At Large" will lay 
> claim to evolving technology and create its own networks and 
> rationales. Will network even between planets or star systems. This 
> "ordered complexification" is happening already. The "At Large" is 
> really the Human Race. It may even become a network of other 
> intelligences too. Multiple intelligences networking and co-existing.
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> The USG controls ICANN. So? It is inevitable that ICANN itself will 
> be marginalised in the end. The human race will carry out its own 
> coup. It will say: "This desktop is under my own authority. The 
> network begins here?"
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> Yrs,
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> Richard Henderson