Notes - trust and potential

         Mid-morning. Cloudy morning with sprinkles to begin the day. Carol slept in, which is unusual. The cats were up early but are now into naptime. Cat hunting habits are hard to fall away, and these habits haven’t much done so in the last twenty thousand years. Twilight hunters still are up for food even if it is nuggets out of a bowl. Nothing much for a house cat to do but eat, drink, sleep, play hunt and do one’s business. - Amorella       

 

         Late afternoon. You had take out lunches from a fairly new restaurant in uptown Mason, the Troy Cafe. Enjoyable and tasty fare. You watched “Selfridge” and “Madam Secretary” and are upstairs where Carol has interrupted her reading to feed the cats. You have some errands to run later. You have been thinking about one of Doug’s comments last week where he asked for a definition of intelligent life. Doug says:

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Dick, What is a short but handy definition of intelligent life? I believe Intelligence is to take input from the universe and to decide what needs to be done, if anything. This requires knowledge of cause and effect. But this does not cover what thought is. How is such thought created?

Doug and Nancy

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         1748 hours. How is such thought created?

         Look at your story for example you observing the marsupial humanoids twenty thousand years in the future and they have adapted to survive by using machinery (tools) and a humane community elected to run their society. Tools to stabilized the greater culture economically and people to reinforce this stabilization for the greater good as well as the individual. And, part of this stabilization is the people forgiving their debt for the sake of their humanity. – Amorella

         1800 hours. This would never work for real. The older I become the more ludicrous it sounds.

         Evening. You are a realist, orndorff who insists on writing fiction. – Amorella

         2200 hours. I thought I was a dreamer.

         You were a dreamer when the concept hit you while writing the first Merlyn series. Now you are a realist and know it might work in fiction but that’s the end of it. – Amorella

         2205 hours. It works for the marsupial humanoids because they had no choice, or at least they thought they had none in which people could survive well. I thought human beings might reach this goal or one similar when history allows them no real civilized choice. That time will come. The planet will need a Seldon Crisis (Asimov's Foundation) in real life. Machinery is the key. People basically don’t trust other people (mostly for very good reasons) and they don’t trust machinery – computers, etc either.

         People trust their automobiles, trains and planes when they have had safety checks. People mostly trust their personal weaponry and their ability to handle it safely. Training is the key. Think what computers and safety equipment will be like in even a thousand years. Safety checks will be built in. If computers had any self consciousness at all it would be safety first and to do no harm . You have gone over Asimov’s Laws for Robotics. You have hope that machines will be an asset for human beings to allows them to live more comfortably and individually freer within the confines of social responsibility within the greater world community. You have hope that computers will aid humans much as pets as far as comfort is concerned. Think about it. Post. – Amorella

         2220 hours. Human beings have a potential they do not realize. This is what I think. I do not know what this potential is, but we have to mature into it one way or another if it is to happen. We have to grow in heartansoulanmind. I do not know how to do this but it seems to me it is something more basic then religion and philosophy. We must shovel deeper into ourselves as a species, find out what we can and make our lives more realistically humane so we can better live that way in a kind of polite honesty and with a forgiving nature where possible.