[NCUC-DISCUSS] I may need some guidance at Durban

[Marc Perkel]

The whole reality thing has been kind of amazing. It first started in 
1998 one night when I was stoned and thinking about religion and was 
thinking, "If there were such a thing as the one true religion, what 
would that look like?" So I thought - "Well, it would be the one that 
believed in what was real." And then the name "Church of Reality" came 
to mind. At first I didn't think it was more than a thought experiment. 
In fact it took me 5 years of working on the idea before I started 
seeing it call come into place myself.

Now it's more like an emergent property of the universe. It's not like 
I'm inventing a religion but discovering something. Humanity has evolved 
and our technology has created the internet where a lot of minds and 
ideas are interacting. We are figuring out who we are, what we are, 
where we have been, and where we are going.

I see humanity as being at a transition point. Sort of like a 
caterpillar turning into a butterfly. We are changing from traditional 
evolution to a form of engineered evolution where through genetic 
engineering and computer technology we are going to design what we are 
going to evolve into. And in order to do that we have to understand what 
we are and where we should be going from a scientific context.

The Internet is part of that evolution. First we invent the transistor, 
then logic circuits, then the microprocessor. Then we network computers 
and create new layers of complexity. People all over the world are 
freely interacting with each other in a global neural network that is an 
external mind that we all share. And ICANN is at the core of this 
evolution and when we think of governing the internet we are writing the 
operating system for humanity.

Thus - the work we are doing here might be far far more important that 
we realize. This might become a model for a central world government 
that might become an inevitable consequence of the internet continuing 
to grow and evolve.

There are at least two paradigms taking place. There's the liberty and 
freedom model. And there's another model run by a plutocracy where a 
small number of super rich take over the world and enslave the rest of 
us. That is the world of NSA spying where there are two classes of 
people, the watchers and the watched. It's the Orwellian totalitarian 
society that science fiction has been warning us about.

I'm anticipating the "watchers" are going to try to make a move to take 
over ICANN. It's our job to make sure that doesn't happen. We need to 
collectively understand the importance of the internet to the positive 
evolution of the human race and to create and protect its 
infrastructure. Hyper evolution can lead to extinction if we don't fully 
think this through - understand where we are - and what we need to do to 
get to where we need to be.

Reality is tricky stuff. But we don't want to piss off Darwin. Darwin 
wiped out the dinosaurs for failing to develop a space program. :)

On 7/7/2013 2:18 PM, avri doria wrote:
> But you know there is a box? Tricky thing reality.
>
> If there is an ICANN box,  I am sure that I live in it.   I will be 
> around,  so let me know if I can help.
>
> avri
>
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> -------- Original message --------
> From: Marc Perkel <marc at churchofreality.org>
> Date: 07/07/2013 14:21 (GMT-05:00)
> To: ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org
> Subject: [NCUC-DISCUSS] I may need some guidance at Durban
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>  I live
> so far outside the box that I don't even know what the box is.
>
> So - let me know where I can best fit in.
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