N'enlève à vos attraits ce volume étonnant
Au temps où les faux culs sont la majorité
Gloire à celui qui dit toute la vérité (Georges Brassens)
re-ligare -
« En l’élisant (eligentes), mieux : en le réélisant (religentes), car négligeant (neglegentes) que nous sommes, nous l’avions perdu –, en le choisissant de nouveau (religentes) – d’où vient, dit-on, religio – nous tendons vers lui par l’amour, afin que l’atteignant, nous trouvions en lui le repos. » — Augustin, Civ. Dei, X, 3.
« Nous liant donc à lui, ou plutôt nous y reliant, au lieu de nous en détacher pour notre malheur, le méditant et le relisant sans cesse – d’où vient, dit-on, le mot religion – nous tendons vers lui par l’amour, afin de trouver en lui le repos et de posséder la béatitude en possédant la perfection. » — Augustin, Civ. Dei, X, 3, trad. Raulx, éd. Guérin 1864-1873
(de béatitude et béat, peace of thought/mind, eg religion)
Augustin insiste ici sur les termes eligere signifiant choisir, ce qui fait que le terme relegere ou religere peut se comprendre non seulement comme une relecture, mais aussi comme une réélection.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étymologie_de_religion
-----The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. The wholesale mechanisation of modern life has increased uniformity a thousandfold. It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas. Its most concentrated dullness is "public opinion." Few have the courage to stand out against it. He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. (emma goldman quotes)
(Mistaking group thought for collective intelligence) As James Surowiecki points out in The Wisdom of Crowds, this forming of the tight, homogenous group gives ground to group thought in a negative sense. Surowiecki gives a lot of examples of when group thought stops innovative ideas from being realized or even thought or expressed. The fear of breaking the group thought is perhaps not obvious or even realized, but is there. If you break that precious bond, you lose that comfy feeling. We’ve all been in that situation too. We have that small, tight group and in comes the Outsider with the Outsidish idea. What an idiot. He knows Nothing. We’ve already tried that. But we are the experts. And so on. The outsider must in many cases chose between aligning and thereby just provide ideas which are in line with what is acceptable ideas within the group or stay an outsider.
and an interesting confusion, notice that the hive is not outside but needs to be restored as personal overview capacity....
- You Have a Hive Mind. There is a deep connection between the way your brain and a swarm of bees arrives at a decision.
Every decision you make is essentially a committee act. Members chime in, options are weighed, and eventually a single proposal for action is approved by consensus. The committee, of course, is the densely knit society of neurons in your head. And “approved by consensus” is really just a delicate way of saying that the opposition was silenced.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=you-have-a-hive-mind
There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)
This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the center of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.
And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.
US report foretells of brave new world : A draft government report says we will alter human evolution within 20 years by combining what we know of nanotechnology, biotechnology, IT and cognitive sciences. The 405-page report sponsored by the US National Science Foundation and Commerce Department, Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance, calls for a broad-based research program to improve human performance leading to telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified personal sensory devices and enhanced intellectual capacity.People may download their consciousnesses into computers or other bodies even on the other side of the solar system, or participate in a giant "hive mind", a network of intelligences connected through ultra-fast communications networks. "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur," the report says. "Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind - an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
-----(K.Kesey's Demon box)---
All the underlying issues raised here remain in doubt until the penultimate essay, ''Demon Box,'' a piece somewhat in the spirit of Hunter Thompson's ''gonzo journalism,'' about Mr. Kesey's relations with mad people, their keepers and a counterculture guru named Dr. Klaus Woofner, who runs the Big Sur Institute of Higher Light. Here the matter of the book's form becomes a major source of irritation, because the author invokes the spirit and authority of a major counterculture figure of the 1960's and 1970's - Fritz Perls of the Esalen Institute - without allowing us to exercise our own views of Dr. Perls and the school of gestalt therapy he founded.
Very well, then; so we have to deal instead with Dr. Woofner's ideas, yet another view of psychic life that invokes Newton's second law of thermodynamics. The human mind is Sir James Clerk Maxwell's demon box, in which the superego plays the demon, letting the good thoughts in and shutting the bad thoughts out. The problem, according to Dr. Woofner, is that, like all other systems, this one, too, is subject to entropy: the superego demon is losing energy; the randomness of the mind's organization is increasing; the bad thoughts are getting mixed up with the good ones; the world is growing increasingly crazy.
----- The Surprising Link Between Homicide Rates and…Belief in Free Will
New research suggests we believe that people have choices because we want to see some of them get punished.
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/03/free-will-nietzsche-punishment
Why we need to dispel the notion of dualistic free willI’ve always argued that philosophers spend way too much time trying to limn conceptions of free will that avoid dualism. Instead, they write books confecting compatibilism. I regard this exercise as largely a waste of time. If philosophers truly intend for their lucubrations to change the world, then I’d think that they’d spend more of their time spreading the word about our growing knowledge of how behavior is determined and less on trying to show how we have some kind of free will.
After all, it is the dispelling of dualism—still deeply entrenched in our society—that has invidious consequences not only for religion, but, more important, for how we treat and punish criminals. Really, is it more important for philosophers to tell us how we really have “free will” after all (and who reads that compatibilism, anyway), or to work on improving society by the proper treatment of those who do bad? (And I deny the claim that the notion of dualistic free will doesn’t play a bad role in our present system of criminal justice.)
I have no time to post in detail, but the pressing need for neuroscientific studies of behavior and empirical tests of reward and punishment (in other words, science) to reform of how we meet out “justice” can be seen in an article in last Saturday’s Wall Street Journal by Adrian Raine, “The criminal mind.”https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/why-we-need-to-dispel-the-notion-of-dualistic-free-will/
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