Creativity of the Projected Mind

I have always loved to fly. The part I like is looking out the plane’s window and seeing a marvelous earth kaleidoscope. As the plan changes altitude, and as it turns, new perspectives appear. Whatever the landscape, there is a beauty and wholeness about it all. It is as if everything you have ever known is lurking out there, and if you shout your story everyone in the whole world will hear and benefit. If I were interested in bacteria rather than geology, I might achieve the same mind set looking through a microscope at a culture, or if I were interested in semiconductor circuit elements I might study a photograph taken through a scanning electron microscope of a semiconductor chip. In the old days of mechanical inventions, one immersed oneself in mechanical drawings and models.

I am projecting my mind into an external space somewhere outside of my head and my surroundings. This space could be invention space if I am creating new products. It could be stage in artistic space if I am composing an opera. It could be inside a black hole if I am a physicist working on a new theory. In each case I am striving to be imaginative and creative by wholly submersing my mind’s eye in the space immediately surrounding what’s being analyzed and for endless periods  periods of time. I analyze all combinations of the data and search for clues to the breakthrough I am hoping for while unsociably avoiding distractions

The Future of the Evolutionary Mind

A paradigm shift of our time is that nobody's mind is a mind by itself. Everyone's mind is connected to the computer clouds and to the collective intelligence of similar minds. This creates a super intelligence not anticipated in the slowly evolving mind scheme. However intelligent a dog or chimpanzee may be, their minds are still the essentially independent entities that they have always been, and the minds of prehistoric men were also essentially independent of some greater intelligence. Evolving DNA changed the design of the human brains, and some of the prebirth packaged intelligence in the human genome changed behavior, but these genetic changes have been and will be comparatively slow. We are finally understanding consciousness, imagination and self and how these relate to all other forms of intelligence with which they react.

Especially due to massive low-cost computer clouds and nearly limitless communications networks connecting them and us, evolution has taken a fundamental step that will change the ecology of the earth. The brain that made man special over all the other creatures has created a network brain about whose magnitude and consequences we can only speculate.