Re: Techno-Capitalism and Post-Human Destinies - II
From deep in the heart of Texas, here are some preliminary thoughts on your extremely enlightening and probing essay. Regards the questions you raise on omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience, what light can the following insights of Sri Aurobindo shed? "The dharma of science thought and philosophy is to seek for truth by the intellect dispassionately, without prepossession and prejudgment, with no other first propositions than the law of thought and observation itself imposes. Science and philosophy are not bound to square their observations and conclusions with any current ideas of religious dogma or ethical rule or aesthetic prejudices. In the end if left free in their action, they will find the unity of Truth with Good and Beauty and give these a greater meaning than any dogmatic religion or any formal ethics or narrower aesthetic idea can give us.” Sri Aurobindo (Human Cycle p214)“Consciousness itself by its mutation will necessitate and operate whatever mutation is needed for the body. It has to be noted that the human mind has already shown the capacity to aid nature in the evolution of new types of plant and animal; it has created new forms of its environment, developed by knowledge and disciplined considerable changes in its own mentality. It is not an impossibility that "man should aid nature consciously also in his own spiritual and physical evolution and transformation" -my emphasis- The urge to do it is already there and partly effective though still incompletely understood and accepted by the surface mentality; but one day it may understand go deeper within itself and discover the means, the secret energy, the intended operation of Consciousness-Force within which is the hidden reality we call Nature ( LD 1949 p843/ 844)”. rc
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