02:23 PM: have been busy with a lot of things these days, tweeting, klouting, drawing cartoons on the whiteboard in office. Klout requires a special mention as I have considered the idea of measuring reach within a Social Network primarily for business houses last month and klout has been on the net from december'08 !! How ignorant I have been! I had almost forgotten that there are about 6 billion minds out there in the wild filled with amazing ideas, to put it in an implementation would just require some dedication and determination from say a few million!
Thinking on these lines I had a crazy thought (was thinking of putting this one in my crazyinsanechronicles), what if all these minds were a network end point? Say a open network without restrictions or regulations, you don't need to fear any organization or government. Free flow of ideas and implementations simultaneously.Think of it in the concept of gaia where the human civilization is made up of millions of sentient elements. There would be only one god, one human in the larger scale. All inventions that take tens and hundreds of years would be a small time engagement. The human gaia would have been the supreme thought process with intelligence and forces that would resemble photons to the smallest particle it is the same as an aggregation of it, albeit bringing up certain physical property changes at times! Imagine the huge data flow, control mechanisms that would have evolved (may be telepathy wouldn't be fiction!). The sheer unimaginable context is what makes me overwhelmed. But then what about individuality? As sentient beings have some kind of legal and ethical rights we would have too. Talk about photons, they can change wavelengths! The world would have been so alien, isn't it?
This makes me think that we posses a certain kind of problem solving attitude in what so ever be the case. Imagine walking, you never think you are walking but behind the scenes you mind calculates every step, assisted by the cochlea and the medulla.Whenever you are about to slip your reflexes are so developed that you most of the times don't fall, of course that comes with lots of practice! So if we were like gaia, every coming generation would learn a little more than the previous one with practice, whether the very next generation would be adept at coding/handling computers to software engineers, or the child after birth would ask questions about velocity of light to a physicist is a debate, but we would have been more advanced than what we are is for sure.
Now coming back to the real world I do see some gaia like symptoms in the current society. There are blacks an whites, Muslims and Hindus, Australians and English and many more to go. As long as one gaia does not hurt another gaia it's fine! But wait who decides what hurts and what not? An eight year old frisked at an airport hurts his family, twittered around it hurts many more emotional people. But talk of security it has become necessity these days. Methods of implementing it can be another debate another time. Lets say if this was a case of rape how would the victim feel being twittered around? It can be a political issue or whatever, but bottom line is what is it that hurts and whom. Say for example, Muslim jehadis proclaim they were being hurt by Americans (Christians) while the US will say it's they who brought down the twin towers. It has been pain and more pain in the end, no matter who started and who is the bigger terrorist!
All a simple man wants is to live happily and die honorably! The basic need seems to be in line with sentient beings. I don't know whether we can be one gaia but something tells me we had the potential long back, now its lost!
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