Thank You for such a thoughtful, thorough and inspired response!
I will indeed be following your journey, and am an avid reader of your articles. My observations are informed by many writers here on substack, following as do you, geopolitics, economics, climate, biodiversity, world literature, arts, science and beyond. As with you this is an informed lifetime pursuit.
I do not hold that philosophy is constant however. I believe that were Orwell or Nietzsche been alive and thinking today, they would have written far different interpretations of the world around them. Systems change and time disproves many of the inputs of intellect. Perhaps that is where AI fails. We shall see.
I am not convinced that taking past (mis)understandings still culturally relevant but factually false, and applying them to the modern world, is a healthy way to formulate progress.
When you understand, as I do, that Nature is the wellspring of intellect, you also understands the earth is her womb, the galaxy her world. If her intellectual fetus is unable to form correctly, like all things in Nature she will abort, and intellect will be stillborn in the Milky Way.
We have passed the early stages of global awareness, without implementing the correct understanding of place, precisely because we are holding on to constructs of the human imagination. We imagine we are superior to Nature, when in fact we are nature. When we kill nature, and she runs out of the balance of accounts to support our global financial IOU to the planet, she kills us. That is the bargain between her, and her offer of intellectual awareness, and our (mis)understanding of place.
Thank you for such an insightful reply, I will continue to consider further resonance to your work. Good luck on your AI project, I will be following, and contributing discussions going forward,
I have just discovered your work, through the Carney article. I am inspired and encouraged. Can you point me to an article that would help me better understand your particular use of words like “prior” and “ground”?
Thank you for reaching out — it means a great deal.
The best place to start is a piece I wrote called *The Geometry of Everything*. It takes two ideas — the sacred and the prior — and shows why they are not religious opinions but first principles, the axiomatic ground beneath everything else. It is written to be read, not studied. If something in it arrests you, trust that.
So well done
Dear Mr. Dispatch,
Thank You for such a thoughtful, thorough and inspired response!
I will indeed be following your journey, and am an avid reader of your articles. My observations are informed by many writers here on substack, following as do you, geopolitics, economics, climate, biodiversity, world literature, arts, science and beyond. As with you this is an informed lifetime pursuit.
I do not hold that philosophy is constant however. I believe that were Orwell or Nietzsche been alive and thinking today, they would have written far different interpretations of the world around them. Systems change and time disproves many of the inputs of intellect. Perhaps that is where AI fails. We shall see.
I am not convinced that taking past (mis)understandings still culturally relevant but factually false, and applying them to the modern world, is a healthy way to formulate progress.
When you understand, as I do, that Nature is the wellspring of intellect, you also understands the earth is her womb, the galaxy her world. If her intellectual fetus is unable to form correctly, like all things in Nature she will abort, and intellect will be stillborn in the Milky Way.
We have passed the early stages of global awareness, without implementing the correct understanding of place, precisely because we are holding on to constructs of the human imagination. We imagine we are superior to Nature, when in fact we are nature. When we kill nature, and she runs out of the balance of accounts to support our global financial IOU to the planet, she kills us. That is the bargain between her, and her offer of intellectual awareness, and our (mis)understanding of place.
Thank you for such an insightful reply, I will continue to consider further resonance to your work. Good luck on your AI project, I will be following, and contributing discussions going forward,
Sincerely,
The Book of Reckoning
I have just discovered your work, through the Carney article. I am inspired and encouraged. Can you point me to an article that would help me better understand your particular use of words like “prior” and “ground”?
Subject: Re: Your Kind Note
Thank you for reaching out — it means a great deal.
The best place to start is a piece I wrote called *The Geometry of Everything*. It takes two ideas — the sacred and the prior — and shows why they are not religious opinions but first principles, the axiomatic ground beneath everything else. It is written to be read, not studied. If something in it arrests you, trust that.
https://glenroberts911399.substack.com/p/the-geometry-of-everything
From there, *The Prior* will open naturally. The two pieces read together give you the foundation of the whole framework.
I also want to invite you to join an eighteen-day meditative journey through the Bhagavad Gita — a journey to self-realization. It begins here:
https://glenroberts911399.substack.com/p/the-song-the-universe-sings-to-itself
Please reach out if you have more questions. I would be glad to hear what you find there.
In truth,
Glen Roberts
*The Architect | The Vertical Dispatch*
*God is love. Love is Truth. Love is consciousness. Amen. Namaste.*