Today's muse, we are building a gigantic repository of knowledge, and at the same time, building tools to manage that knowledge. As our knowledge grows, our ability to change our environment in profound ways, also grows.
Just as we humans are the constraint in jet fighters, and are slowly being replaced, I wonder if humans are also a constraint in another more profound way. Wisdom, or perhaps I should say the lack of growth of wisdom, seems to be equally constraining in this system (for which I don't really have a name). Wisdom seems to be self-limited by the biological constraint of the human organism i.e., we have to learn and relearn wisdom in each one of our lives. As knowledge and power continues to grow exponentially across thousands of generations, wisdom continues to cycle, limited by our lifespan. Unfortunately, wisdom does not seem to lend itself to growth as does knowledge, or at least I have not been able to see a clear trend of a growth in wisdom over the ages.
Perhaps this is natures way of limiting how destructive we can be, as our inability to grow wisdom almost guarantees our own self-destruction, or perhaps, we have in our future a way to learn wisdom. Here's to the latter!
Just as we humans are the constraint in jet fighters, and are slowly being replaced, I wonder if humans are also a constraint in another more profound way. Wisdom, or perhaps I should say the lack of growth of wisdom, seems to be equally constraining in this system (for which I don't really have a name). Wisdom seems to be self-limited by the biological constraint of the human organism i.e., we have to learn and relearn wisdom in each one of our lives. As knowledge and power continues to grow exponentially across thousands of generations, wisdom continues to cycle, limited by our lifespan. Unfortunately, wisdom does not seem to lend itself to growth as does knowledge, or at least I have not been able to see a clear trend of a growth in wisdom over the ages.
Perhaps this is natures way of limiting how destructive we can be, as our inability to grow wisdom almost guarantees our own self-destruction, or perhaps, we have in our future a way to learn wisdom. Here's to the latter!
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