The power of humanity to connect with itself is of immense importance. Understanding this power is a vital element of the human experience. Humans often take for granted their natural ability to connect, learn and empower one another but it is this very ability which grants us a remarkable advantage during this state of existence.
By connecting together, humans are capable of forming a natural biological network. I call subunits of this network "aggregates". These are groups of gathered peoples united for a particular function or purpose around a central leader(s) called "The Aggregator". It is the responsibility of The Aggregator to mature their respective aggregates and to interface with other Aggregate leaders, allowing their associated aggregates to link up together and exchange information.
It is also the principle responsibility of humanity as a whole to create a non-local, distributive network of knowledge exchange and storage. In this time, the Internet serves that function. In the past at various times telegraph networks, telephones, postal services and couriers were the de facto networks of the century. Once a stable and reliable global network is established, a persistent distributive memory for humanity can be created.
Humans will seek to recreate their distributive memory externally and continuously through time if allowed. Since as far as we can tell, we are unable to encode experiences directly in the introns of our genes, humans must seek external technological means to achieve this.
This emergent property of collective connection is a characteristic that thrives repetitiously throughout nature. Quarks binding quarks, atoms binding atoms, molecules, viruses, bacteria, prokaryotes, eukaryotes and so on and so forth. The pattern of connection to to form a greater "entity" is an important one and humans are no different. We are driven to link up to form a collective consciousness. Social Networks are successful because they both facilitate and exploit this. As humans we are faced with numerous challenges living on Earth. We can only progress if the rate of exchange, quality and durability of our knowledge increases faster than deleterious effects of physical existence.
We must succeed in this endeavor, or face the unrelenting consumption of our species by time.
Humans will seek to recreate their distributive memory externally and continuously through time if allowed. Since as far as we can tell, we are unable to encode experiences directly in the introns of our genes, humans must seek external technological means to achieve this.
This emergent property of collective connection is a characteristic that thrives repetitiously throughout nature. Quarks binding quarks, atoms binding atoms, molecules, viruses, bacteria, prokaryotes, eukaryotes and so on and so forth. The pattern of connection to to form a greater "entity" is an important one and humans are no different. We are driven to link up to form a collective consciousness. Social Networks are successful because they both facilitate and exploit this. As humans we are faced with numerous challenges living on Earth. We can only progress if the rate of exchange, quality and durability of our knowledge increases faster than deleterious effects of physical existence.
We must succeed in this endeavor, or face the unrelenting consumption of our species by time.
