The basic understanding of how our mind works and how to reprogram it in all sorts of all ways has been discovered again and again. It does not take much more than a few hundred years of an unbroken intellectual tradition, with a few hundred dedicated people in every generation.
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Our own culture is largely not there yet, so we are like arrogant children that think their parents and grandparents were confused and primitive. There is no reason to think that the mental development of future generations will exceed past ones.
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However, we can compile knowledge and teaching techniques to get motivated and gifted individuals to progress much faster in the techniques of using their minds than they otherwise would. Our civilization seems to be in decline, but we have an abundance of resources to work with.
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I love the idea of inducing lucidity in every human being, but I don't see any chance of that happening.
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Joscha, I don’t understand why you’re thinking there is no reason to think that the mental development of future generations will exceed past ones Don’t future generations run faster than the previous and progress exponentially quicker? We have made more available for the future
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Every generation that wants to advance still has to dig down all the way to the foundations, before they work their way back to the edge. Very few individuals are capable and willing and supported. We may have made knowledge more accessible, but the journey is still not easy.
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The journey isn’t easy for any generation since we all have hardships in our own way. Do you think we would get closer to that meta-evolutionary state I was referring to if all generations understood better that we all have our unique problems and we all boosted each other?
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Would we be closer to enlightenment if everyone were more understanding? Yes, tautologically. That just changes the labels on the problem, not the problem.
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Do you have any thoughts on how we could change the problem?
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Not from where we stand today. I think we have to solve several lower object-level problems (e.g. poverty, war, pestilence) before it could even be addressed usefully. Otherwise, it's just a pass-time for those rich enough to afford the time, not a vehicle for everyone.
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Poverty, war and pestilence are not individual problems to solve, they are aspects of how social systems are run, the conditions they find, how they interact, and how they transition to new states.
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something i remembered I was wondering earlier with a friend— speaking of wars: what do you think wars of the future will be like? do you think traditional warfare will be dismissed and methods like bio wars and infowars will be the subtle ways of the future?
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They aren't, but then neither is the enlightenment of one's neighbors.
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