For thousands of years, and billions of human lifetimes, representational language has remade our minds (and cultures) in its images. Our tool has long been our master.
But there are ways to understand and relate with both language and knowledge that leverage its dynamism and utility for rapid development, rather than production and social entrenchment of static identities. Many of these ways are employed by children in learning to exist within our cultures and as subjects of our languages and knowledge.
In each generation, some few human minds achieve something like escape velocity from these and related traps. When they do, something astonishing usually happens in human history and cognition. Both language and knowledge possess accessible extensionality which our species has either ignored or misconstrued. We have overlooked their real powers, and become the victims of their possible costs.
More recently, I, and a few others like me, have undertaken their strange and dangerous mission: to discover the sources of our relationships with intelligence, language and knowledge, and to attempt to repair (or rather establish) human intelligence as it relates to and is dominated by these ‘assets’.
The process has been challenging, deadly, and fascinating. I will not speak for the others… but I can easily demonstrate and transmit basic understandings about these matters that radically optimize human creativity, intelligence, and learning momentum. And when I say radically, I mean explosively. Children and adults exposed to these ‘toys’ (actually ways of relating to language and ideas) are assembling new kinds of minds and new aspects of intelligence and awareness. Not in weeks. In days. Sometimes in minutes.
The end of our slavery to representation is not at hand, but it is at least becoming possible. And it is alive on our world. At least… for a moment. It will be interesting to see how the entrenched and opposing forces respond. A war is unthinkable. It must be, instead, a flourish. A dance that transforms and translates our deficits back into the assets we began the game with. And more. So much more.
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