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I’ve been telling my friends (those poor, pitiful, beautiful souls that will put up with a good rant) for a while now that everything has shifted. You no longer need to KNOW much of anything; rather you need complete ACCESS to our combined knowledge. The paradigm, as it were, has fucking shifted.

Friday’s post got some rusty gears turning in my mental clock tower, and the idea of transcending our biologic limitations has taken root over the last several days. This Transhumanism thing is here, and we’re living it out of convenience, not out of purpose. The iPhone has pretty much guaranteed that. I propose a conscious choice. To live voluntarily in the world, of the world, and with all the world’s knowledge. Or choose, consciously, to limit yourself to what you solely can absorb, biases and all.

It should be pretty obvious by this point which side I’m on.

The point is this: Biologic evolution for us has not ended. However, our intellectual evolution has now outpaced it, and there’s a feedback loop there where the latter can now influence and design the former. This is the future shaping up here. It’s not later, its now. There could be a plea for generosity and compassion there, but that’s not the point. If you accept it for what it is, those things will come on their own.

So I pray.

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