The Integration

"The human brain is so exquisitely adapted to be perfectly adapted to whatever environment it's in. If it's in an environment where it communicates mainly with computers, it too will become like a computer - with both the good and bad things [associated with that]," - Susan Greenfield, professor of Synaptic Pharmacology at Lincoln College, Oxford

Quit reading those comic books and go play outside

This article recounts the path to integration of us into them.
The path to the emergent integrated mind


85,000 (+/- 15,000) BCE - Toba Bottleneck
Hypothesis that super-massive caldera erupted which caused 1000 years of severe climate disruption. The 10,000 human survivors would have lived in the most advanced or most modern humans with the plasticity of mind and ability to quickly addapt to severe climate change in a very short time. Multiple generational transfer of technologies pushed forced, rapid progress reduced from generations to years and even months.


85,000 (+/- 15,000) BCE - Blombos cave art, African diaspora
Symbolic thought expressed as 'a representation of the thing in itself'. The early humans draw a sharp divide between the phenotypes with sufficient plasticity to visualize past experience tied to symbolic representation on the wall of the cave.


35,000 BCE Cro Magnon Civilization
Persistant human cultural practices across multiple generations emerge as humans spend more time indoors during long winters in Northern Eurasia and Eastern Eurasia


12,000 BCE - Grain silos
The human cultures with a signifigant portion of the population that can plan future outcomes with enough rigor to create large, permanent structures.


10,000 BCE -  Agrarian communities supplant some hunter gatherer culture
The chance to live with large populations of networked minds

Quit thinking about virtue and go outside and play

3000 BCE - City States bootstrap political thought, Sumarian Cuneiform Writing


800-200 BCE - Axial age


1400 CE Printing and publishing for a mass audience bootstraps reading in a large population and coordinated thinking.


1840 CE - Railroad time synchronizes global human rhythms.


0 Google Era (GE) [2004 CE] pervasive search of totality of human knowledge in seconds.


40 GE - Singularity derp de derp


At each step human minds in brains follow the path of explosive cultural evolution toward improving results - we all have more free time to participate in massive, networked creation of shared imagination. The great great grandchildren carry on cultural change at first growing to the children promoting cultural change and finally day to day change in the same generation. The pace of change accelerates until the limits of brain plasticity can no longer keep up without the aid of the Technium.

Quit playing Nintendo outside and come inside and integrate

The persistent delusion that completely understandable acceleration of human thought is the path to the destruction of human culture is widespread. This is not right; it is not even wrong. To post an entry on a blog about the coming end of thinkable thoughts makes me snort milk from my nose.