Technological versus Subjective Acceleration

A friend of mine believes that all this talk about “accelerating change” and approaching the Singularity is bullshit—in part because he doesn’t see things advancing all that amazingly exponentially rapidly around him.

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Posted by Patrick  on  10/01  at  01:06 PM

Viva la Singularidad - if you wanted to be gramatically correct about it.

Posted by gregorylent  on  10/06  at  07:24 AM

a yogi sees it differently, because he knows consciousness has subtler levels, and that individual awarenesses can apprehend reality on subtler planes .. you have described horizontal possibilities in a nice way, but only as a way of making a distinction between a partial kind of subjective limitation and technology ..

an understanding of deeper levels of awareness yields a different understanding of what technology is in terms of the subject, it is an extension of self, and knowing this pretty much eliminates your argument.

the gap that you see doesn't exist except in a narrowly defined subset ...

anyway, sorry to nitpick, nice blog

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