A Grounded and Radical Hope

A Grounded and Radical Hope

An appreciative response to a Deep Adaptation Forum post by Dan Vie and ChatAI: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/ZCLwGYYkCdX2zQu4/?

It is irrational in my opinion to expect that more technology will solve the problems that it has created. This is because any new technocracy is little different from any old technocracy.

In my view there is a vast untapped reservoir of human potential that exists outside of the norm. An AI can only mimic the norm. It cannot truly innovate. It cannot see outside of the box that created it. An AI can list all the known possibilities for hope and change, but believing that list to be exhaustive is tantamount to expecting technology to solve the problems it created.

We are only just beginning to understand how complex living systems work. Modern reason and common sense, the old enlightenment project, is hegemonic. This means it excludes a great deal from consideration. It is deeply dis-empowering. It is profoundly arrogant and repressive. Modern reason omitted large areas of the brain, the body, and the natural world from consideration in order to attain its development. It made abstract thinking and objectification appear to be universal and comprehensive. It is most certainly not. There are other cognitive faculties readily available to us.

There is a grounded and even scientific form of radical hope that exists today but it is emergent. It is emerging from the perceptual faculties and environmental resources that conventional analytical and left hemispheric reason is unable to perceive, unable to recognize, and unable to grasp. An organically based right hemispheric perceptual shift is well under way and has all the promise and potential of the elephant in the room.

There is for me a deeply grounded but radical form of hope, with evidence that is both intimately mundane and potentially momentous.

It is too late to give up hope and I can name a long global list of scientists, scholars, philosophers, artists, theologians, anatomists, visionaries, healers, teachers, and movement advocates that are coalescing upon a practical somatic paradigm shift. This is an alternative in which a viable, deep adaptive response emerges not from our intellect but from within the body and life itself.

For me I find this within the myofascial synergy of the deep core of our bodies, an interoceptive sensory motor system that matches and compliments and literally undergirds our more conventional and better known exteroceptive sensory motor system.

This latter superficial form of knowledge is the one that we are most familiar with and that provides all of the evidence for modern reason and modern science. Exteroception informs our thinking from the outside in and the top down. It is concrete and objectifiable and quantitative, but is not all there is. It is left hemispheric, practical, intellectual, analytical, symbolic and verbal. It is not all there is. It is not capable of the rich holistic knowledge that comes from within and from the bottom up. There is also an emergent right hemispheric form of perception that is grounded in the interoceptive sensory motor system, an anatomical fact that we cannot dispute but can easily ignore. This interoceptive sensory motor system has a specific, palpable, and distinct anatomy. It is physical; it is a form of animal intelligence and is nonverbal and non-symbolic. We are free to use words images and symbols to represent and describe the experience itself does not originate in the intellect. Unlike left hemispheric perception, is not exclusive. It is essentially integritive and inclusive. It is made though the connections that bind us together as a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts. This is the essence of it: Consilience. It is indeed the most neurologically and sensory rich part of the body, our deep inner axial core, and exceeds the neurological density of the five external senses by a wide margin.

It is within us. It is only hidden from us by our intellectual arrogance.