The Internet: A Montage of Humanity- It's All Connected

It's all about connections.  Whether discussing how the Internet could gain consciousness and experience mood states, how to create a film exploring the 21st century, how the modern age has led to the use of units of culture created digitally in everyday language...  It all comes back to human interaction and interdependence.

When Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest and paleontologist, postulated that the universe would continue to grow increasingly complex until a sphere of knowledge covered the entire planet and created a self-conscious human society which would spread across planets and eventually create a conscious universe, computers were far from imagination, much less was the Internet able to be predicted.  Yet, his theories seem to have their beginning in the interconnection created between human culture on the Internet.  As we, the human race, continue to stew in our juices in a giant neural network connecting different elements of society, granting us both a cognitive surplus and an unfortunate adaptation of the brain to view material quickly and return to a state of distractedness away from mental discipline.

What we must not forget is that the internet is an extremely recent human invention.  We began developing microbiology centuries ago, and are only beginning to understand that field of science.  While philosophers will spend countless hours attempting to reconcile the internet with the nature of human consciousness and social interaction that we knew before, chances are that the majority of them will be perceived as wrong in a matter of years when a new breakthrough occurs in science.  But then, some years after that, that breakthrough itself will likely be undermined and changed, as the existence of anti-matter has the potential to undermine most of the laws of physics that we understand.

Perhaps one day, far in the future, humanity will look back at this period of history and deem us the pioneers who brought forth an age of prosperity with the use of digital connection across the globe to unite humanity.  Or perhaps we will be the harbingers of destruction who eroded human consciousness with a reliance on digital interconnection as the internet itself gained consciousness.  Every action that we take in the present will shape which course we follow, but who is to say what the results will be of any action in the long course of history?

All these principles and theories are what we are attempting to explore in this process of creating a crowd-sourced film.  It delves into the very nature of crowd-sourcing in its connections.

How the Universe is Constructed: A Mind-Blowing Insight

Michael S. Schneider, in his book A Beginner's Guide to Constructing the Universe, presents some fascinating evidence for the principles of sacred geometry shaping the universe in which we dwell.  While he every now and then throws out a sentence that seems heavy-handed and somewhat over-the-top, often directly referencing his primary concept and linking a number to an archetype or ideal in an exaggerated way, the evidence he provides to define each number in a sacred manner supports him fully.  From the excerpts I have now read, the end result seems to be a convincing case for...  Well, I'm not entirely sure what the overall point is exactly.  It is a highly intriguing look into the building blocks of our reality, analyzing almost everything one usually takes for granted to provide a portrait of the world in the colors of numbers.  And perhaps that is enough of a purpose, because it manages to craft the mundane into thread and weave a complex narrative of universal understanding that could inspire anyone capable of reading.

But let me back up.  When I started reading these excerpts, I was still rather confused as to the whole idea of sacred geometry.  While I've known for most of my life that numbers such as three and seven are vastly important in the Bible and in stories and myth and in nature itself, the idea of every number having its own distinct meaning seemed rather far-fetched to me- especially five standing for life and regeneration.  It sounded like a lot of overanalysis and applying meaning where they may be none.  But yet, as I read Schneider's writing, I found myself agreeing with everything and easily seeing the connections between numbers and philosophical understanding.  Three's representation of wholeness and completion made perfect sense in energy, mass, and light; spirit, soul, and body; red, blue, and yellow.  Four truly seemed to be linked to earth and matter itself in the form of the elements, directions, and seasons.  And right there, I used three examples because that seemed to be the ideal form of completion for that sentence.  I am now noticing the uses of these numbers in everyday life and it is blowing my mind.  It's like a new realm of knowledge has been opened up and it can explain fundamental aspects of the universe.  This is truly a topic that can interest any human present on this Earth.