Observing entropy - #19 Waking Life "Human Development"

Source An example of Entropy: (Light Waves through a Prism)

To look at human development,
look at the organism's evolution...

...and his environmental interaction.

Evolution of the organism begins
with evolution through the hominid...

...coming to the evolution of man.
Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon.

Now, what you're looking at here
are three strings:

Biological, anthropological,
development of cultures...

...and cultural,
which is human expression.

What you've seen is the evolution
of populations, not individuals.

Then look at the time scale involved.

Two billion years for life,
six million for the hominid...

...100,000 years for mankind
as we know it.

You see how the evolutionary
paradigm telescopes.

Then when you get to agriculture,
scientific and industrial revolution...
...you're looking at 10,000 years,
400 years, 150 years.

You see a further telescoping
of evolutionary time.

As we go through the new evolution...

...it will telescope to the point
where we see it within our lifetime.
The new evolution stems
from two types of information:

Digital and analog.
Digital is artificial intelligence.

Analog results from molecular biology
and cloning.

You knit the two with neurobiology.

Under the old paradigm, one would
die, the other would dominate.

Under the new paradigm, they exist
as a supportive...

...non-competitive grouping,
independent from the external.

So evolution now becomes an
individually centered process...

...emanating from the individual...

...not a passive process with the
individual at the collective's whim.
So you produce a neo-human...

...with a new individuality,
a new consciousness.

That's only the beginning
of the cycle.

As it proceeds,
the input is this new intelligence.

As intelligence piles on intelligence,
ability on ability...

...the speed changes until you reach
a crescendo.

Imagine it as an instant fulfillment
of human and neo-human potential.

It could be the amplification
of the individual...

...the multiplication of individual,
parallel existences...

...with the individual no longer
restricted by time and space.

And the manifestations of this
neo-human evolution...

...could be dramatically
counterintuitive.

The old evolution is cold,
it's sterile. It's efficient.

Its manifestations are
those of social adaption.

You're talking about parasitism,
dominance, morality...

...war, predation.

These will be subject to de-emphasis
and de-evolution.
The new paradigm would give us
the traits...

...of truth, loyalty,
justice and freedom.

These would be manifestations of
this evolution. That's what we hope.

Self-destructive man feels completely
alienated. Utterly alone.
He's an outsider to the community.

He thinks to himself,
"I must be insane."

What he fails to realize
is that society has, as he does...

...an interest in considerable
losses, in catastrophes.

Wars, famines, floods and quakes
meet well-defined needs.

Man wants chaos.
In fact, he's gotta have it.

Depression, strife, riots, murder.
All this dread.

We're drawn to that almost orgiastic
state created out of destruction.

It's in all of us. We revel in it.

The media puts a sad face on things,
painting them as human tragedies.

But the media's function is not
to eliminate the evils of the world.

They persuade us to accept those evils
and get used to living with them.

The powers that be
want us to be passive observers.