Roger F. Malina
May 30 2024
The Non-Center of Emergence group is meeting soon, in a few hours, to discuss again the emerging concept of Senexism.
The Emergence Group enables an observatory that notices different phenomena but does not seek to meddle, just as astronomers don’t.
The group is not a group of numerologists since this doesn’t work well in the understanding of emergence, but:
For the first time since the emergence of humans, there is a rapid increase (linear, not exponential) of ‘older’ humans. In our Emergence Observatory we hope to make a list of possible emergent changes in human culture and apply Mihai Nadin’s methods of anticipation.
In our previous work on Emergence, we outlined our own understanding of emergence: https://athenaeumreview.org/podcast/a-brief-history-of-emergence-with-frederick-turner-robert-stern-and-roger-f-malina/
More recently we documented how the arts and humanities emerged in our university, while they were mostly declining in other Western universities. In press.
Certain indicators were identified, such as name-changing of groups, and the crucial role of small Salonnieres, where topics could be discussed outside of institutional and cultural and …constraints.
In a discussion yesterday with sitting judge John Marshall, we re-iterated the anxiety that our legal institutions need to be rethought; one prime reason is that where humans used to dominate the process of judging, this is now being replaced by rapidly evolving technologies such as Artificial Intelligence. JMM https://texasbarcollege.com/member-spotlight-judge-john-mcclellan-marshall/
The Modern Memory Hole: Cyberethics Unchained
Should society move toward the goal of “efficiency,” driven by transhumanist considerations and technological changes in the mechanical storage of information—at the expense of the ability to express a wide variety of thoughts and retain them in some form from which they can be retrieved by succeeding generations?
So, but:
But our legal system was invented long ago, when human life span was almost never up to 100. More usually 60 years max. A life sentence was almost never more than 50 years. Maybe we should now set a maximum sentence, whatever the crime.
Another human institution that may need redesigning is ‘marriage’. When marriage was invented, the context was procreation: living long enough to have children, raise them and then kick them out of the couples home. I am generalizing but not much.
In the case of marriage, it is an observational fact that ‘personhood’ evolves over the years. We are not the same person we were when we were 18 or 28 or 38. The three of us in the emergence group as all over 70. Almost no human marriages ‘last’ more than the required time to leave a genetic trace via procreation. So let’s put an expiry date on all marriages.
Clearly the Emergence Non-Center is guilty of implicit bias. We don’t worry about how human nature is evolving differently for children who grow up with digital devices in their ears, eyes and brains. Not our problem, except when one’s children have children.
Dehaene: how we learn is worth learning.
So to complete, this is maybe the oldest human alive today: 399 ? that’s what on line search claims ?
So let’s get to work: we can use iterative design methods to rethink/re-implement
- Legal institutions
- Marriage
- “education”
(( An institution is a humanly devised structure of rules and norms that shape and constrain social behavior.[1][2][3][4] All definitions of institutions generally entail that there is a level of persistence and continuity.[5] Laws, rules, social conventions and norms are all examples of institutions.[6] Institutions vary in their level of formality and informality.[7][8]
Institutions are a principal object of study in social sciences such as political science, anthropology, economics, and sociology (the latter described by Émile Durkheim as the “science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning”).[9] Primary or meta-institutions are institutions such as the family or money that are broad enough to encompass sets of related institutions. Institutions are also a central concern for law, the formal mechanism for political rule-making and enforcement. Historians study and document the founding, growth, decay and development of institutions as part of political, economic and cultural history.))
The ideas in this text are not all mine. They emerged in discussions with the Emergence Group ( Fred Turner, Robert Stern), the PPP ( Nina Czegledy, Joel Slayton and Alejandro Medina), The Ciber-Villagers ( Tomas Londono, Tommy Ayala, Riccardo Dal Farra and and ) but also solo groups with Wolf Reiner, Annick Bureaud, also the ArtScilab members. Lets avoid
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On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History, six essays by Thomas Carlyle, published in 1841 and based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1840. The lectures, which glorified great men throughout history, were enormously popular. In the essays he discusses different types of heroes and offers examples of each type, including divinities (pagan myths), prophets (Muhammad), poets (Dante and Shakespeare), priests (Martin Luther and John Knox), men of letters (Samuel Johnson and Jean-Jacques Rousseau), and rulers (Oliver Cromwell and Napoleon).
Yup, all men. Let’s celebrate the disorganized trans-cultural-gender-disciplinary hybrid colliding cultures to possible trigger desirable auto-poesis in a world of a million centenarians. Senexism is gender neutral and and and…
From fred turner
I never regarded marriage just as a matter of reproduction, and much more as a kind of very deep and exclusive friendship, and I have known many very long and happy marriages. I think I’d have to defy any government decree to abolish mine. Perhaps we in old marriages would form a sort of underground, a secret society of humane and gentle relationships in a world of social efficiency and mutual exploitation…