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11_10_09

On action.

Most times, no rewards are given for heroic acts, no limits or warning are presented to the careless one, no suggestion is auto-generated, no guidance is given. Bad and good choices do not come with any obvious signs of their nature. Our lives' hyperstructures are invisible.  Reasoning is required to present the articulation of our selves, usually through doctrinal statements, either religious or traditional or commercial.
(I'm realizing this idea follows the 2 previous posts on hyperstructures and on Times of isolation)
     But doctrines are not enough to fill each present times: a doctrine is like a set of axioms and is only good when being developed into propositions, models of past and future, and factual representations at any given time.  Being Christian, or Muslim, or having read "The Secret", or "How to be happy", or having been advised by a friend, or whatever happened in my past, cannot help me with the present, a hardship or act of kindness or boredom or joy, unless I translate this past culture into a model that eases the relation between this present moment and a future moment that I deem good. In other words, Life requires me to manipulate certain information that was given to me in the past in order to live the present correctly.
This all appears obvious; but there is a small epiphany, in that what what governs our lives is a manipulation of past information. As our era brings new tools and ways to manage information, what will be invented in the future to enhance our ways of dealing with the present ?
   In current times, we have ways of communicating elementary information about the present: where am I, what am I doing. In the future, we'll get a better answer of what to do. Maybe we need to communicate more and more about what we do so that an intelligence emerges to advise us on what to do, from somewhere... to be continued.

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