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"We Are Just Pixels After All"

"This philosophy proposes that one life, committed to the service of others, is enough."

Though at Damanhur, they emphasize: Spirit takes YOU.

"Imagine the sensory overload of a walk in the park. Every path shimmers with the flow of humanity. Every person drips with the scent of information: experience, opinion, karma, contacts. Every tree has a story: taxonomies and ontologies form bright lattices of logic. Desire lines flicker with unthinkable complexity in this consensual hallucination of space and non-space, a delicious yet overwhelming sociosemantic experience."

free will is the irreducability [or perhaps better: practical unpredictability] of culture to molecules; & other differences w/ the author

""" We have to begin with Hegel, because before him there really was no true history of philosophy. And Hegel’s work itself must be taken as a whole: “The True is the Whole”. If you abstract one piece of the system – say, the Logic – you falsify both whole and the part. In every one of Hegel’s works, he emphasises its relation to the history of philosophy. In the system, all the stages of that history appear as aspects (moments), each bound up with a particular stage of the history of society. Each philosopher’s work is “its own time expressed in thought”, representing simultaneously a stage of development of society and of society’s consciousness of itself. So the history of philosophy is inseparable from the philosophy of history, which traces the unfolding of Spirit, that is, of an entire way of life. For Hegel, each “time” can be “expressed in thought” because thought, Spirit, was the primary determining factor in historical movement. """

This is not the triumph of herd instinct but a cultural convergence of humanity toward a single society. Evolution has gone about as far as it can to perfect human beings physically: its next step will be social. Teilhard saw such evolution already in progress; through technology, urbanization, and modern communications, more and more links are being established between different peoples’ politics, economics, and habits of thought in an apparently geometric progression.

"The holders of the ancient natural-magical world-view had an affinity to identify themselves with environment, with the world. Through this identification they attempted to enter internal worlds, the substances of the objects and phenomena. They were led in this way to a high degree of comprehension which was unattainable from an arrogant view coming from above or outside."