OUR WORLD BRAIN

What we call the Internet is “Our World Brain” nowadays. The hardware and software with its advancing artificial intelligence is technologically novel. The concept, however, is hardly new. Its accelerated realization with improved means of communication and advancing artificial intelligence may rapidly be bringing us to the end of history. What, then, would the future be, a dystopia or utopia, depending on one's mental attitude, or on whether we are by nature originally good or evil regardless of perspectives and circumstances?  Would the violence end in universal peace if the computer serves us so well that we knew all we needed to know and do to survive, or would the human race be its afterthought?

H.G. Wells chose peace as the outcome. He is well known for his science fiction novels, but few people are aware of his enthusiasm for a Permanent World Encyclopedia, which he saw as the salvation of the evolving human race. Evolution would make a god of man as he gradually took charge of his destiny with his encyclopedic knowledge of the universe.

Wells would not be surprised to see us today with our heads in the clouds and encyclopedic devices in our hands. So it is fitting that my first essay in this book is 'Our World Brain,' and I am posting the book in the great Amazon cloud so people can see it on their devices.

The reader shall find thereafter some musings on various subjects that old bookworms think about as they eat their way through the old world brains, the library shelves, at random. Am I what I ate? A rabbi once told me that we do not know who we are unless we know where we came from. Wherefore honor the dead for we are the dead alive.

Solomon remarked there is nothing new under the Sun. No matter how much we know about the universe, there is something unpredictable about man, He is advised to know himself, yet he can only really know what he is not, and the rest is freedom from THAT.

Titles in this amusing and thought-provoking volume include Aurora My Love, Metamorphosis Of A Bookworm. I Met Arthur Schopenhauer, A Prophetic New ISM, Screaming Under the Viaduct Again, Reflections On Transcendental Moon Day, Notes On The Call For An Intellectual Rebellion, Cloning Dolly Letter from U.S. Senate Candidate, On Socratic Death, Notes on Protagorian Fragments, Environmental Linguistics of George Perkins Marsh, Reflections on Burckhardt’s Religious Reflections, On the Liberal Theory of History, My Descent To The Realm Of Hades, Leading A Simple Life, The Delphian Know Thyself Injunction, The Lost Prophecy Of Rudolf Eucken, Self-Certainty and Self-Doubt, The Self-Conscious Fact, Fact as Event, Sensation, Perception, Conception, Trinity, Gravity is a Tyrant, God Plays Solitaire, MA-MA, Lost in Dreams, Condemned to Freedom, Kant's Transcendental Appearance (Illusion), My Original Problem, The Presiding Spirit Has No Reason To Think, The Absolutely Good Unity,  A Unique Coincidence of Universal Qualities, The Subject is not an Object, Know Thyself, It's Daddy's Fault.  

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