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ANNOTATION:
Thinking in Cybernetics Rather than a Natural Language

What would happen to the nature of human society if over the 
course of time everybody began to (almost literally) think in 
terms of cybernetics instead of a natural language?  What would 
happen if people began to live, think and breathe cybernetics?  
 What would happen if all children were taught utilizing 
constructivism and thus to think for themselves instead of being 
indoctrinated with potentially false information?  What would 
happen if all humans became systems thinkers, and what would the 
metasystem of them be like, what types of unimaginably powerful 
emergent phenomena would be produced?  What would be left to 
achieve given a situation like this, locked-in generation after 
generation?  What would a system of problem-solvers be like, as 
opposed to the system of endless debaters/meeting 
attenders/cynics/"Life is a s**t sandwich, just let me die" 
crowd we now have?  What would it be like to actually enjoy 
living, to have a purpose in life?  What would it be like to 
communicate with other solar systems, with societies where all 
the aforementioned events have also occurred?

I don't know.

"Dongo is but a pawn in the great game of life."
    - Blazing Saddles


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Date: Aug 30, 2002

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