PROJECT Way Out

On the way out, a way forward
{#SustainablePlanet}

{ Preface }

FOR ALL the PEOPLE,
(but especially for ALL the PEOPLE who are not human)

Looking Back as A Way Forward: RECOLLECTIONS
Dan Landrum

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The World Lost Two-Thirds Of Its Wildlife In 50 Years. We Are to Blame | September 10, 2020 | (NPR)
Human activities have caused the world's wildlife populations to plummet by more than two-thirds in the last 50 years. The decline is happening at an unprecedented rate, and it threatens human life as well.

"The findings are clear, our relationship with nature is broken."

The insect apocalypse: ‘Our world will grind to a halt without them’ | July 25, 2021 | (The Guardian)
Insects have declined by 75% in the past 50 years – and the consequences may soon be catastrophic.

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"Our moral engagement with the non-human hit me very hard at a young age!" — Gary Synder reflecting on an inciting incident when, as a Depression Era little kid on a stump farm back in the Oregon woods, his Lutheran Sunday school teacher flatly told him that he would not ever meet his beloved recently decessed hefer in heaven, as animals don't go to heaven.

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Enough with Shiva, call in Vishnu!
#caring #Compassion

The Way Out is the Way of the Wild
There's Only One Sky

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Let your heart be like the sun,
shine alike on e v e r y o n e.

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With a nod to Francis Bacon's Novum Organum ("New, true directions concerning the interpretation of nature"),
which references Aristotle's work Organon,
which was his treatise on logic and syllogism,
which Bacon believes the details of his new system of logic to be superior to — Aristotle's old ways of syllogism.
AND P. D. Ouspensky's Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, a Key to the Enigmas of the World,
in which Ouspensky negates Aristotle's Logical Formula of Identification of "A is A", concluding in his "higher logic" that A is both A and not-A.
Which in turn makes suspect Bacon's 'finding the essence of a thing' being a simple process of reduction, and the use of inductive reasoning.

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"Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things," Yuval Harari

Yuval Harari on why humans won’t dominate Earth in 300 years (Vox.com)
By Ezra Klein@ezraklein March 27, 2017

“It's not because I overestimate the AI. It's because most people tend to overestimate human beings.”

There is a lot of confusion about what artificial intelligence means or doesn't mean, especially in places like Silicon Valley. For me, the biggest confusion of all is between intelligence and consciousness. Intelligence is not consciousness. Intelligence is the ability to solve problems. Consciousness is the ability to feel things. In humans and other animals, the two indeed go together. The way mammals solve problems is by feeling things. Our emotions and sensations are really an integral part of the way we solve problems in our lives. However, in the case of computers, we don't see the two going together.

Over the past few decades, there has been immense development in computer intelligence and exactly zero development in computer consciousness. There is absolutely no reason to think that computers are anywhere near developing consciousness. They might be moving along a very different trajectory than mammalian evolution. In the case of mammals, evolution has driven mammals toward greater intelligence by way of consciousness, but in the case of computers, they might be progressing along a parallel and very different route to intelligence that just doesn't involve consciousness at all.

The big question is how does a world of non-conscious super intelligence look?
Because we've absolutely nothing in history that prepares us for such a scenario.

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Towards a true form of democratic governance that includes all sentient beings.

We can invite the ecstatic natural harmony we feel within our personal body temple space to begin the international give and take conversation for a true form of democratic governance that includes all sentient beings. A governance that eschews power for power sake, evades control for fear of lack of control, a governance that respects appropriate scale, sees and is humbled by our caring place within the global nature of our individual nature, the galactic nature, the glucose-powered nature. We are that nature. Wherever on balance we are, we are that nature that is becoming anew. There is no guarantee of what we become. It depends on how we choose, or if we fail to choose, if we fail to frame the answers to the correct questions. This planet will go on in perfect balance of what it is in every instance with or without us. But we are not passive observers. The 'with us', 'with us', 'with us' part is up to us. — excerpted from On the Nature of Rebalancing authored by Dan Landrum

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Nature as wilderness is true, a form
of democratic governance that includes
all sentient beings.
{Homage: Gary Snyder's Practice}

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A way forward in answering the question: "How do you decide?"

First Thought:

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"The Green Stylist" — Indian Chameleon, Western Ghat, India (photo: Gurumoorthy K)
NPR wildlife photography 2021

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