EDUCATION – REPETITIONS

Instinctive behaviour repeats without any noticeable change over generations.

Humans repeat learnt behaviour and learnt ideas. These involve focusing to learn, memorise and repeat. The more we learn, the more we need to repeat.

The wheels of the repetitive focusing, learning, memorising system were set turning, we combined and created.

We developed a fascinating array of new toys and new tools and all of a sudden found ourselves with an Industrial Revolution which specialised on smaller repetitious segments to learn and repeat, and speed up the whole process. Henry Ford gave this process gestalt (form), with piece work on assembly lines.

All our inventions have an ever-increasing momentum of development, which require us to continually adapt quicker to the new stimuli which we create.

The car went faster and (apparently) more efficiently than horses. So that between 1910 and 1930 the horse vanished from city streets, and with that the carriages, wheelwrights, stables, blacksmiths, oats and barley and an entire 5,000-year-old global balance and established structure of specialised social identities vanished. They were replaced with mechanics, garages, metal and rubber production, tarmacked roads, and oil production.

Other people make a case for the climate. On a psychological level, the problem is the form of education needed. We could look after animals with empathy; carts with common sense – but cars and the industrial world needed technical and abstract skills.

Our practical skills are easily shared, often simply copied, and they are increasing quickly. But in our abstract reality, the increase and diversity of thoughts, beliefs, ideas, and opinions, is exponential.

Among animals, it's the actual sounds which are relevant, but for humans it became the abstract meaning of a complex system of symbols.

Numbers, diagrams, and words are at the centre of modern civilisation. Success depends on mastering these abstract skills.

So, to contain the ever-increasing new knowledge, skills, and ideas; an ever-increasing early education in abstract thought was necessary.

Education and Training

Traditional learning was simple parrot fashion, the classics, basic maths, languages, often with a one-dimensional abstract imagery.

It's not even creative focusing. Juggling with focal points in irrational comedy and teaching comedy would be the creative way to teach creative thinking.

Artificial Intelligence

And though i've missed a few steps, now we've developed Artificial Intelligence to cope with all the combinations and associations between our abstract words, symbols, and ideas.

AI. was always inevitable, it's the perfect expression of how we use our brains focusing talents, with their inherent repetitions and memory systems to coordinate all the ideas, all the focal points.

It's significant that AI. can't experience, and doesn't understand even the subliminal pahanal systems of modern man. It has no connection with the parasympathetic nervous system, or with the senses of smell and taste which stimulate and are governed by the lower brain.

AI. is designed to further accelerate the labyrinth of abstract possibilities. Our world's abstract thinking capacities are destined to skyrocket. AI. is discussed in detail here.

Alice's Red Queen

Even though we are materially secure (in the Western world), we're collectively psychologically insecure, and we are compensating with our species' habitual survival stategy – even more focusing. We're overfocusing.

We're in a ridiculous situation, like Alice's Red Queen, there simply isn't any time left to slow down because there is so much more to keep learning and repeating.

We are being incredibly stupid. We have no free time or space left to remember or experience pahanal sensing.

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