ICANNWiki:"Philosophy" essay by Marc Perkel: Difference between revisions
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It's not a coincidence that ICANN came to this same conclusion because evolution is a property of the universe and after a billion years of evolutionary survival our minds are encoded with this evolutionary software to intuitively understand this principle. But we don't have to rely on this intuition anymore now that we understand where the intuition comes from. We can just accept as part of an objective logical infrastructure that extinction is bad and we need to do what it takes to avoid it. | It's not a coincidence that ICANN came to this same conclusion because evolution is a property of the universe and after a billion years of evolutionary survival our minds are encoded with this evolutionary software to intuitively understand this principle. But we don't have to rely on this intuition anymore now that we understand where the intuition comes from. We can just accept as part of an objective logical infrastructure that extinction is bad and we need to do what it takes to avoid it. | ||
=== Living in Right Relationship with Reality === | |||
Humanity has no choice but to learn this important key concept. We need to live "In right relationship to reality." What does this mean? It means that we live in a real universe that is quite frankly really hostile to life and this planet is like living on the surface of a soap bubble. This is a bad time to screw up and go extinct after getting this close. After all, we have evolved to the point where we know the size and age of the universe. | |||