High
intelligence can better deal with the world and its possibilities and
give us better ways of responding to life and evolution. But high
intelligence needs good character as well, we need to have that
intersection between the emotional parts of the brain and the
abstract parts, non-feeling geniuses are not what we need. Courage is
also needed so that intelligence can venture out toward new
solutions, in new or old territories. And good health helps define
beauty, which completes the combo. We should not be seduced into
putting all our evolutionary hopes into intelligent machines
(singularity) which can be a sly way of avoiding human evolution and
its problems.
And we can't forget the importance of artists
who can be geniuses at working with emotional responses to life in
their art. But antisocial art needs to be distinguished from socially
redeeming art, as Cattell pointed out, which seems like common sense but is not much
considered in the suicidal modern art world. I'm not
talking about a Platonic total control of art, socially
redeeming art need not stunt
creativity, on the contrary, it provides order to the total freedom
of art creation. For example, emotions connected to art can
underline and interpret the emotions implicit in our evolution toward
Godhood.
The arguments against choosing these evolutionary
values seem increasingly selfish and short-sighted. These are simple
conservative values---although perhaps not so simply
attained---within an Ordered Evolution toward the zenith of
intelligence, noble character, courage, and beauty, which helps
define ascending levels of real Godhood.
Tuesday, December 08, 2020
The simple art values of future evolution (from the archive)
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