Ideas extracted from/activated by "The Houseboat Summit" between Alan Watts, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsberg, and others
- everybody must learn the truth for themselves, it cannot be followed (one can be given clues, but words are not adequate to explain some things)
- education/society as an ephemeralized rigid structure is maladaptive to change in two ways:
- people can't understand the system (since it's designed to manufacture people in the most efficient automatic way without their own thoughts)
- the system can't be changed by those within it (because its design is assumed to be correct and doesn't allow for alternative systems)
- society as an organism needs more sensors (people who understand a broad swath of the system that they're in) to create a larger adaptive intelligent field of consciousness, instead of the current large-scale mechanized maladaptive computer program
- a rigid top-down programmed society isn't adaptable quick enough (i.e. can't detect problems, can't innovate quickly, etc.)
- a bottom up field of intelligent beings can
- ideas can spread quickly, coexist, and compete with each other (as seen in the internet); evolution accelerates
- civilization is on a collision course with a brick wall
- trying to fix the problem will lead to the end approaching more quickly
- according to Daniel Coffeen, native americans went through an ecological crash thousands of years ago
- from the ashes of their crash, a philosophy of harmony with nature emerged with led to a sustainable social system
- unfortunately, the native americans lacked the white man's technology, and immune system, which made them vulnerable to attack; technology is valuable
- joyousness wins over seriousness
- happy things make your brain grow
- serious things make your brain rigid
- emergence was touched upon (can't remember where)
- Timothy Leary has quite an irritating ego
- Alan Watts' intelligence is itself a product of an old established system, but much broader and of a different nature than the kind seen in academia