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DividedQuantum
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#29664259 - 09/09/26 11:49 AM (1 day, 23 hours ago)

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An essential component of cultural evolution, and of Teilhard’s entire scheme, is freedom. Humans must be free to evolve, whether this be individually or collectively, and this cannot happen in an authoritarian or otherwise repressive society. The noosphere cannot complexify, cannot evolve properly, if humans are at all muzzled with respect to what they think, say and do (within reason).

We must be allowed to fulfill ourselves, to strive to arrive at the outermost limits of our consciousness. Human vision may grasp a thing, and then use this thing a new jumping-off point, to stoke further visions, which in principle can continue without limit. The aim of thought is to continue to the farthest end of a convergent sequence, propagating without limit and always onward, higher and higher. There can be no confines. Consciousness left alone has no limit. So humanity, if it is not to derail evolution, must govern itself very wisely.

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#29664272 - 09/09/26 12:22 PM (1 day, 23 hours ago)

I generally agree with those assertions… but devil’s advocate: perhaps confinement can be necessary and helpful during stages of evolution. For instance, a cocoon or chrysalis is a necessary stage, while the insides turn to goop, and the outside maintains a static, firm container until the new structure emerges and is ready to take flight.

Likewise, humans can benefit from stages of confinement, sometimes in a prison, monastery, hospital, or marriage, which allows them to concentrate their energies and reflect more deeply on specific issues. Take monogamy versus polyamory - sure, being poly offers more freedom, but it can detract from the alchemical processes of confinement with one partner, being forced to work through conflict rather than simply escaping to one of the other partners.

That all being said, an oppressive government that persecutes people for their speech or dissent… that would reflect a very primitive form of paranoia and inability to tolerate disagreement, diversity.

But it is interesting to see the debate on the limits of free speech when it comes to things like deliberate spread of misinformation, such as during a pandemic or political election or some kind of wider psyop

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#29664373 - 09/09/26 03:35 PM (1 day, 19 hours ago)

Those are some very interesting comments, and I can't say you don't have a point. I suppose different individuals thrive in different environments, but who's to say what's best? A free soul and an encumbered soul can exist in identical conditions.

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#29664417 - 09/09/26 05:06 PM (1 day, 18 hours ago)

DividedQuantum said:

A free soul and an encumbered soul can exist in identical conditions.

Touche!

I suppose a free soul could design a containment vessel for itself in order to explore the experience of confinement. Which could then elaborate new forms of communication - because if we are confined, with some kind of barrier between us and other beings, we have to be ingenious about creating new ways to overcome that barrier.

Ultimately, the experience of being human could have something to do with forcing us to refine our capacities for telepathy, to overcome the illusion of separation that we have invented...

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#29664425 - 09/09/26 05:37 PM (1 day, 17 hours ago)

It is indeed an illusion.

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