1/Anything we don't find in nature came directly out of the minds of men and women.
One of the reasons I am a pragmatic optimist is because of the endless human ingenuity that created almost everything we use on a daily basis.
One of the reasons I am a pragmatic optimist is because of the endless human ingenuity that created almost everything we use on a daily basis.
2/ Have you ever just looked at a smartphone and and marveled at the ingenuity and collective human intelligence that created it? We humans are an adaptable lot, but occasionally look and wonder how you could ever explain a smartphone to someone from 1900. Yes, there are problems
3/ and always will be--but given how far we have come so relatively quickly, I believe that the directional arrow of human progress points upward.
Here's a quote from Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" that nicely makes a similar point:
Here's a quote from Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" that nicely makes a similar point:
4/ "Steel has no more shape than this old pile of dirt on the engine here. These shapes are all out of someone’s mind. That’s important to see. The steel? Hell, even the steel is out of someone’s mind. There’s no steel in nature. Anyone from the
5/ Bronze Age could have told you that. All nature has is a potential for steel. There’s nothing else there. But what’s “potential”? That’s also in someone’s mind!"
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