This is all pointing towards something that I think is on the horizon, and this is what I call the posthuman self: that there’s something going on inside the self, and inside the way that we experience ourselves, and the way that we perceive ourselves, that is already happening and will continue to happen more so.
I honor and respect a more transhumanist position, which says that intelligence is now offering us the ability to overcome things that we have inherited as monkeys, essentially, and that the world that we’re facing, the world that we need to deal with, doesn’t need those monkey energies running the show anymore. And I think we can all see how it’s causing a lot of problems on the big scale.
As information and pattern and communication become more and more tightly coupled with the material world, when the breakdown between the virtual and the material occurs more and more—when suddenly there are RFID devices in all of our objects, when already the GPS breaks down the difference between physical space and virtual space in a way—that there’s some kind of bridging of the material structure, all of these institutions, all these structures, all these technologies, and the virtual, let’s call it. And that by creating these seed crystals of solutions, of a clarity, of open community, there’s this potential (and this is where the angel comes in) that it spreads in a way that we cannot anticipate.