It might be an interesting experiment to have a radically new way of living. It is about living in defiance of what initially natural selection had in mind during the inception of life - creating humans as a means of proliferation of genes. The deep engrained human propensities, hidden in the realm of sub-conscious awareness, have been evolutionarily hardwired to program humans to be a better vehicles of proliferation of more and better genes. That is what the life operates for all flora and fauna, as illustrated in details by hundreds of naturalists before and after Darwin.
Now, at this current era of information revolution at its peak - at a time when human brain has evolved to become aware of itself with never before clarity and accuracy, there is a possibility of living life in a brand new philosophy - the philosophy of being alive as a means to proliferate healthy memes, instead of healthy genes!
This new frame of reality, this new framework of existence is based on the idea that world is all about information, expressions, stories, ideas, dreams, thoughts, and intellectual insights. Humans are mere means to create and hold such information. In that terms, the army of creator and maintainer of thoughts, humans are joined with computer programs, journals, magazines, books, media, etc. These entities are artifacts of human ideation, and also work as stimulators for newer ideas. So the world transforms to a stage for not actors in the form of humans, rather a stage in which ideas/memes interact and evolve, using human mind and other forms of information processing centers as vehicles.
Such a scheme of things creates an interesting way of existence. A stance of living in which a human lives not for pleasure for its body, but for the evolution of its mind - to process more and more complex information. The parameter of social status and prestige becomes not the material possession and economic power, but rather information, and ideas in ones mind. The idea of self indulgence for physical pleasure goes out of context, as life is viewed as drama of ideas and thoughts - not of human beings as such.
This way of thinking has its innate advantages. The first and foremost is the alleviation the divide among humans on the basis of economic divide. The worth of a person is gauged by the possession of ideas, and innovative insights. The prime importance is given to the memes in the mind. This frees a person from the inevitability of hereditary aspect of wealth and happiness. It helps to create a more democratic and egalitarian society - atleast on the basis of material possession.
So, life becomes an aware journey where it is all about learning, exploring, creating, and thereby directing the evolution of mankind towards a more optimal existence - as a whole. In such scheme of things, the selfish reasons of one own self does not come into consideration. Although the natural selection forces a person to behave in its old model - vexed towards preserving and proliferation of self, an aware state of mind (the meta mind) stands in defines of the genetic pull, to give a direction against it, shaping with the force of memetic field.
This new way of being enables humanity to evolve in a well designed direction towards a more glorious future. A choice is applied at every point, whether to surrender to the genetic pull, or to stand out and do something different - something responsible. And moreover, life also frees itself from the baggage of negative human emotions. The psychological propensities like hatred, envy, jealousy, fear, animosity, guilt, etc get freed out. The root cause is that now the person looks every situation as being caused by data, stories, information. Not due to an evil intent of a human in flesh and blood. The harming gesture of a human is viewed as just a crystallization of a thought process - manifestation of a meme that is held in the mind of the person. The the victim looks for the opportunity to come up with a meme which defeats the harming meme. Thus there is a survival of the fittest meme that takes place - letting the more adaptable, and stronger meme to thrive over the weaker and rigid meme. Such a state of affair creates a more compassionate way of looking at things. Now, a person does not hate another person. Rather focusses on the meme from the mind of the other person. This helps to facilitate a problem solving stance, where sustained focus on the meme enables a person to act as a link between the problem and the solution.
Mental well being is always of primary importance in such scheme of things. That is facilitated through reading, intellectual inter courses, contemplations, ideation, brain storming, etc. This helps a more productive usage of the life span for an individual. Being busy with mental idea creation and knowledge gaining, is incentivized in such structure of a society.
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Now, at this current era of information revolution at its peak - at a time when human brain has evolved to become aware of itself with never before clarity and accuracy, there is a possibility of living life in a brand new philosophy - the philosophy of being alive as a means to proliferate healthy memes, instead of healthy genes!
This new frame of reality, this new framework of existence is based on the idea that world is all about information, expressions, stories, ideas, dreams, thoughts, and intellectual insights. Humans are mere means to create and hold such information. In that terms, the army of creator and maintainer of thoughts, humans are joined with computer programs, journals, magazines, books, media, etc. These entities are artifacts of human ideation, and also work as stimulators for newer ideas. So the world transforms to a stage for not actors in the form of humans, rather a stage in which ideas/memes interact and evolve, using human mind and other forms of information processing centers as vehicles.
Such a scheme of things creates an interesting way of existence. A stance of living in which a human lives not for pleasure for its body, but for the evolution of its mind - to process more and more complex information. The parameter of social status and prestige becomes not the material possession and economic power, but rather information, and ideas in ones mind. The idea of self indulgence for physical pleasure goes out of context, as life is viewed as drama of ideas and thoughts - not of human beings as such.
This way of thinking has its innate advantages. The first and foremost is the alleviation the divide among humans on the basis of economic divide. The worth of a person is gauged by the possession of ideas, and innovative insights. The prime importance is given to the memes in the mind. This frees a person from the inevitability of hereditary aspect of wealth and happiness. It helps to create a more democratic and egalitarian society - atleast on the basis of material possession.
So, life becomes an aware journey where it is all about learning, exploring, creating, and thereby directing the evolution of mankind towards a more optimal existence - as a whole. In such scheme of things, the selfish reasons of one own self does not come into consideration. Although the natural selection forces a person to behave in its old model - vexed towards preserving and proliferation of self, an aware state of mind (the meta mind) stands in defines of the genetic pull, to give a direction against it, shaping with the force of memetic field.
This new way of being enables humanity to evolve in a well designed direction towards a more glorious future. A choice is applied at every point, whether to surrender to the genetic pull, or to stand out and do something different - something responsible. And moreover, life also frees itself from the baggage of negative human emotions. The psychological propensities like hatred, envy, jealousy, fear, animosity, guilt, etc get freed out. The root cause is that now the person looks every situation as being caused by data, stories, information. Not due to an evil intent of a human in flesh and blood. The harming gesture of a human is viewed as just a crystallization of a thought process - manifestation of a meme that is held in the mind of the person. The the victim looks for the opportunity to come up with a meme which defeats the harming meme. Thus there is a survival of the fittest meme that takes place - letting the more adaptable, and stronger meme to thrive over the weaker and rigid meme. Such a state of affair creates a more compassionate way of looking at things. Now, a person does not hate another person. Rather focusses on the meme from the mind of the other person. This helps to facilitate a problem solving stance, where sustained focus on the meme enables a person to act as a link between the problem and the solution.
Mental well being is always of primary importance in such scheme of things. That is facilitated through reading, intellectual inter courses, contemplations, ideation, brain storming, etc. This helps a more productive usage of the life span for an individual. Being busy with mental idea creation and knowledge gaining, is incentivized in such structure of a society.
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