The first time I became aware of the underlying patterns in the world was many years ago, when I took my vacation to redo the list of direct debits of the Guincho members. Over time and with the changes of banks and addresses, many had disappeared from the responsibility of the fees. There were almost a thousand, and for many I had to look for where they lived now, because the idea or the task was to visit them personally, try to listen to them and give the pertinent explanations and recover them.
I had a month, more or less. At first it was very complicated and the rhythm was very slow, but little by little a "drawing" was unfolding in my mind on the plans, which were locating them, like a miracle. Sometimes, only the foreigner or the peninsula or the islands or the town or the neighborhood, but in the end only by their surnames I could find the street. Note that most of them, just by their surnames, I did not recognize them.
The meeting was wonderful, because I was terrified waiting to hear a multitude of complaints and disappointments. What I found was a sincere gratitude for the task we were carrying out and a great understanding towards our defects and failures, and sincere apologies for not having bothered to update the membership fees. Those who unsubscribed did so, in all cases, in a very elegant way. That stayed there.
Many years later, I began to have my time and recovered the frustrated desire of adolescence for knowledge, and I began to restudy everything that was of my interest at full speed. In the middle, I had taken a small pile of books on biochemistry to the Papagayo cave that Asensio's goats ate in an oversight, postponing once again that of studying. One of the things I came across was the subject of patterns in nature. And there I began to understand what had happened that time. And give it meaning.
Now, especially after I have become accustomed to contemplation or meditation or whatever you want to call it, one of the most joyful daily moments is when you see some kind of pattern unfold spontaneously before you or in you. I know that they do not belong to scientific knowledge, I know that science explains them and gives them a mathematical formula, but they are there. With or without science. And the body, its synergies, its states, is also involved in them and I am not referring to the physical structure, which of course also. I am referring to its, let's say, psychic structure, although I would like to have another word. And those patterns cover more space and time than I could have imagined. In fact, sometimes they go out of what I can perceive as "normal" space time and get into very strange paths.
Today, the economic powers are splitting their sides to have those patterns through the development of computer algorithms. But they will never be able to reach, not even close, the capacity of the human mind to continuously develop its own, among other things because these are intertwined with the rest of living beings and all types of fields that "surround" us.
Science will always, always, go after that, as a magnificent part of that. Another thing is that we let ourselves be dragged. Downwards. Towards them. That is basically what the attempt of the economic powers consists of. Human intuition is hyper related to those natural patterns and it is simply foolish not to take advantage of it for good living. When I say take advantage of them for good living I am not referring to the fact that they are giving you daily solutions to your problems or desires. I am referring to the pleasure of seeing them unfold and to that very pleasant and simple feeling that everything is related, feelings, emotions, thoughts, etc. They intertwine with each other and with everything. And that is as if you were alive and you related to everything, but in a world that is not out there.
Living separated from the world is such a powerful feeling that it may be the main human characteristic. Some say that it is necessary for the progress of our brain; they may be right. But, being able to take that "step back" and be everything again is a joy, especially if it is not exclusive and you build a bridge between the two. That for me is pontificating myself. I don't know what the Pope will do with his life and his pontificate.
Observing those patterns, I can see that the hyper megalopolis of artificial intelligence that we are building is going to profess the same respect and concern for humans that we profess for our cells, bacteria, viruses and other parts that made us and sustain us. Very little. That's how the "thing" works.
Any opportunity to Be lies in connecting with the intelligence that drives everything. We can call it consciousness. And it will always be "above" anything created. No matter how simple its expression is at the moment when the first two particles that did it come together. The intelligence behind the first stitch of a canvas is the same as that of the first brushstroke and the same as that of the Mona Lisa already finished. Including that of the plant from which the material for the canvas came or that of the mineral for the paint or the cells for the painter.
So, if we accept that it is the intelligence of the human as something of its own that builds the mega smart city, we will have to accept that it was the intelligence of some unicellular organisms that created the mega intelligent human structure. From there let's compare: What is more intelligent, a human or a mega city of super advanced artificial intelligence? And we will be able to discern about what is more intelligent, whether a cell or a human. I can't see it that way. When I give in I can only see a single intelligence that "uses" everything and expands it in patterns of all kinds. Life, energies and ¿inert? matters.
So I like to sit down without times and give thanks to the whole process, from the first particles that intelligence used to unite them and create atoms and molecules and these cells and these tissues and these organs all that process that leads to me and that, in addition, continue in 99% or more, keeping the organism active without me having to worry about a few things and have a space to see, feel and think the glory of creation, life, with all its avatars and be able from there to be the others to continue growing and fulfilling the journey. And when I appreciate the value of those parts in me, I gather enough humility to be able to participate in something greater than what I am not aware of, but that is thanks, among others, to me. And that it is likely that even in the distant future it will not need any human or human device to continue.
Seen this way, one can really perceive that he was never born and that he will never die. At least for an instant, but what an instant! And that leads me to Esperation, which I tell myself is the opposite of despair, the opposite and that I have invented it (I think) to give word to a new state that I have experienced and cultivate. In the midst of all this, I still don't know what I mean when I say "I". And in whose name I say it. Because now, apart from all the bugs inside and on the skin that I am, it turns out that we have a kind of cloud of them that like an aura surrounds us and makes up another good part of what we are. I have to go further down the word to see it and there the story obviously ends. But it is intensely esperationante.
Today I read some recent statements by the eminent Nobel Prize in Physics Gerad't Hooft who goes and says this: "If there were another intelligence in the galaxy it would have already dominated us". And you realize that for our civilization intelligence is ultimately nothing more than the ability to first separate and then dominate the other. To all "the other". And that is despairing. Pure despair.
Ramanujan was a Hindu believer, ascetic and vegetarian. He said that his mathematical theorems were inspired directly by the goddess Namagiri, during his dreams. That those results came to him. Namagiri, Sri Namagiri Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess venerated as the wife of Narashima, an avatar of the god Vishnu, was the family goddess of Ramanujan's family (Mathematics and its borders, Madridmasd.org).
The one above, the Nobel, has no choice but to use Ramanujan's math to 'golisniar' in black holes. Where they hope to see something clear. Ramanujan was a compassionate being. Not a dominator. His intelligence was compassionate not dominating.
The world is a strange place. Don't let yourself be dominated by trying to dominate. You miss the most wonderful thing about intelligence, freedom, the one that is before those thousandths of a second that decide before you. The one that frees you from the dominator. And connects you with the most esperationante part of the? I don't know!
