The Thinkersbebo Statement
Thinkersbebo.com is in essence centered on a relatively simple
viewpoint. The usage of our brains to advance science and technology
will help us to create the tools to increase the welfare of our
species. The human brain is the most incredible trait ever evolved,
in that it allows for the construction of ever-increasingly powerful
tools. The tools imagined, constructed, and improved, by human
brainpower have allowed for technological extensions to the
evolution of the species. It is the role of each and every new
generation to further drive the progression of the species. This
posting is meant to explain this position/view point to the best of
my ability. This is the 'Thinkersbebo Statement.'
The major theme Thinkersbebo puts
forward is the advancing or speeding up of the progression of our
species. Along with this theme Thinkersbebo also supports the
position that we as individuals must use our greatest selected
attribute. The attributes presented by the human brain that grant us
the ability to think and create cognitive models, to make
predictions, and to plan courses of action. These attributes of
cognitive thought are ones that no other animal has ever evolved.
The human species has sacrificed its large jaws, strong upper body,
and various other traits to develop such an amazingly capable brain.
The abilities of this complex organ far exceed any other
evolutionary trait ever developed in the natural world. However
because of the sacrifices our biology has had to make, we are now
completely dependent on our brains. We must use them on a constant
individual basis to survive. We cannot rely on strong jaws, sharp
claws, or super agility, to provide a living. Humans have instead
developed tools and techniques to provide a living. In the same way
we must also use this very same ability to think, to learn from the
past and plan out our future, in order for us to continue to survive
and even progress on a long term basis. So the evolution of the
human brain has gone from just being useful on a day to day basis
for the survival of an individual, to being a long-term course
planning tool; able to work for the benefit of many.
Thinkersbebo is all about striving to use this evolved
organ we all have to its utmost potential. Cognitive thought is the
tool, the key to gathering and then using acquired information to
thrust civilization forward towards what can generally be viewed as
success. Learning, teaching, and thinking are the evolved strengths
of our species. Absorbing information, constructing databanks of
knowledge within our minds is one step. But this alone will not
yield much gain in terms of progressing the species in desired
directions. We must also use our ability to process, to mull over
acquired knowledge. Decisions need to be based on intricately
dissected knowledge, if we are going to get anywhere, or even
continue to survive in the long run. The combined power: awareness
of learning, teaching by means of complex common language, and
cognitive contemplation of gathered knowledge; all of which combined
is what grants the human species its strength.
The development of the
powerful human brain has forced us to depend on tools to survive.
The tools of civilization were slowly improved as each new
generation adapted them. The increase in the abilities of these
tools allowed for the spawning of new ideas for infinitely more
powerful methods and tools. The emergence of tools like:
mathematics, philosophy, and then the scientific method, pushed the
further advancement of civilization dramatically. The result was
increases in the standards of living by initiating new waves of
humanitarian thought and understanding. The improvement of one
generation of tools allows for more efficient, more advanced
versions of tools to be imagined and then created. This on-going
process has continually delivered our species incredible abilities
that biological evolution has never been able to accomplish ever
before (and probably never will).
Progression is a term that is used quite often on the Thinkersbebo
website. So what does the term progression actually mean? A general
way to define progression is the process of increasing the
wellbeing/standard of living, of a group. This term is used in a
broad sense when stated on Thinkersbebo to refer to the entire human
species. The term can be used when describing moving forward on
solving/overcoming a significant problem or question relevant to the
welfare of the species as a whole. New levels of increased health,
quality of life, and life expectancies throughout human civilization
by means of ‘tools’ are brought on by brainpower. This is
progression. This website generally focuses on the progress being
made in fields of science and technology. This is because generally,
scientific and technological progression provides tools that have
lasting effects on the lives of everyone. The idea that is held by
this website is that we as a species need to be making such
progress. Science and technological development steadily pushes
further towards increasing the standard of life, and decreasing the
over-all suffering of human beings.
The progression of
our species as a whole is the point, the reason for all that is
stated, sourced, and referred to on this website. And if we are to
progress we must first learn to think. We need to think about the
information we absorb so that we can use it to our utmost benefit.
Cognitive thought is one of our greatest assets we have evolved. It
is this ability in combination with our learning and teaching
abilities that will allow us to continue to survive and progress
well into the future. A good understanding of old ideas can spur new
ideas. Information needs to be contemplated, tested, and dissected
on a regular basis, before and after it has been accepted as
theory/fact. In this way, cognitive thought brings forward the ideas
needed for new, improved tools. New ‘tools’ – i.e. - theories,
mathematical principles, technologies, sciences, understandings, and
ethical paradigms; all provide the means by which our species can
continue to progress. Such progress brings about capabilities that
human kind did not have before. This is a form of evolution,
non-biological evolution. A form of evolution that is dramatically
faster and more powerful than biological evolution.