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>To turn the Whiteheadean "scheme" into a matrix, whose applications would be thinkers who may be somewhat eccentric but are vectors of a disarming politeness, will surprise more than one reader. In general, philosophers are no more polite than physicists or sociologists, and much less so than some ethologists, who learn from what they observe how to address it. The critical interpellation "remember the conditions that set limits to your knowledge," a descendant of "remember you are going to die," is not polite. It shocks those it addresses, as is to be expected, since the point is to wake them up. The need for awakening presupposes the need for "making someone lose hold," of shaking up routines and shattering certainties. Speculative interest, in contrast, respects the importance of the hold. The critical interpellation "remember ..." is then replaced by the questions "what is required by your hold?" "from what wager does your success proceed?" - polite questions that one creature may address to another creature. And if the exchange is possible, if sometimes - an essentially anonymous event - one dream may induce the modification of another or evoke another, it is insofar as their point of junction is always a tangent point: neither a frontal clash between rival powers nor being swallowed up in the other's dream, not confusion in a banal dream of power but a local resonance, designating past tenses of divergent accomplishments and future tenses responding to distinct tests.

>"What is required by your hold?": such a question affirms and presupposes that the others' dreams, like yours, are created according to the means of their own adventure, and to this extent this question constitutes a test: it is a question that beings of power will have difficulty tolerating, proceeding as they do in the name of an intangible right that must be satisfied everywhere, which recognizes no difference between here or there, other than that of the parasites to be eliminated so that they themselves may be confirmed. Yet it is a question that one dreamer can address to another dreamer, for dreams to not abstract from the means, but rather dissolve the dreamer's identity in adventures that restore to the "means" their mode of actual existence: that of propositions that posses individuals far more than individuals posses them. This is why, when philosophy has succeeded in doing what it can do, not only is wonder still there, but henceforth infects all the statements whose vocation was to explain the world, that is, to disenchant it.

>>14110061
Yes I was tested in the 5th grade due to completing paperwork faster than the other children. Why one would consider ability to complete paperwork as a mark of intelligence is beyond me. From my perspective what makes me "gifted" is insatiable curiosity. Whether there is some innate element is irrelevant to me: whatever innate tenancies towards curiosity and creativity there are can be cultivated to levels of engagement and experience that are beyond for what genetic programming can account for.

This article is very much related to the current happening with the brilliant child soldiers of the internet: https://midcenturymodernmag.com/these-magic-kids-1aefbbeb81cd

I am so personally invested into this project that I don't fear giving my real name right here: Carl Vincent May III. My father was a hippie who had a Masters in cultural anthropology with a focus in interdisciplinary studies, and his father, the original Carl began the youth for service organization in San Francisco. There is an old documentary about this organization here: https://youtu.be/5mSjWkEWfA4

This anti-authoritarian and pro-social spirit was passed memetically from my grandfather to his father, and from his father to me, growing with other influences along the way. My grandfather died before I was born, but I have a feeling that if he knew me he'd be proud of me beyond words.

>>14043404
>Omega Point compliance.
https://old.reddit.com/r/omniqueryinitiative/comments/diul7h/influence_as_confluence_bergson_and_whitehead/?st=k23kgj7b&sh=00137859
>The Global Brain is a metaphor for this emerging, collectively intelligent network that is formed by the people of this planet together with the computers, knowledge bases, and communication links that connect them (Mayer-Kress and Barczys 1995). This network is an immensely complex, self-organizing system (Heylighen 2007b). It not only processes information, but can also be seen to play the role of a brain: making decisions, solving problems, learning new connections, and discovering new ideas. No individual, organization or machine is in control of this system: its knowledge and intelligence are distrib-uted over all its components. They emerge from the collective interactions be-tween all the human and machine subsystems. Such a system may be able to tackle current and emerging global problems that have eluded more traditional approaches (Idem 2004). Yet, at the same time it will create new technological and social challenges that are still difficult to imagine

>>14027467
Well then, you have truly arrived at yourself. Enjoy being dragged into the future by force of gravity while us co-creators co-create with potentiality and actuality work to create the future.

It's just a question whether you'll be eroded away or not by your resistance to creative advance.

>>13997934
Life is hope. <3

https://youtu.be/LB9lObWclFQ

>>13988259
The radically divergent, in their quest for divergence, inevitably end up converging with others who seek greater mutual divergences.