We're right where we are.  Always have been, always will be.
Question is - what are you willing to create (t)here as?

How persistent are you prepared to be?

I wonder if anyone can truthfully answer that.
I don't know.
I have studied physics, anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, cybernetics, pschology, philosophy, politics, religions, and more whacko stuff than most people can imagine.  Done mediation, various retreats, time alone, at sea and on land, and in the air.
Conclusion - I continue to surprise myself.
It seems that for each new level that I manage to consciously distinguish and explore, there must open an even deeper level about which I have little or no knowledge.  It is logically self evident when you think about it,and a little weird to experience.
Perhaps the old addage - know thyself and to thine own self be true; has a lot going for it.  Particularly when it refers to eploring the deeper levels of intuition that the human brain delivers.

Arohanui
Ted (I'm off for three days climbing a 8,500ft mountain - Te Ao Whekere - catch up when I get back.)

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Be creative and be responsible.
Respect the lives, property and freedom of others.
Respect life at all levels.
Get outside the comfort zone from time to time.

Be prepared to break any rule - if it seems appropriate.

That it proves how primed the human mind is to see pattern, even where it does not exist.
I see myself doing it often - several times today on the golf course that I noted.

In one sense, Intuition about timing, in another, nothing - living life as it presents.
I keep involved, active, contributing.
Making new networks and maintaining old ones.
Looking at everything with the question, how to effectively awaken people to their own unlimited power, and at the same time awaken them to the responsibile exercise of that power in a context of love.

My Wife - to finish the extensions to the house.
My clients - for me to complete the extensions to the printing system within.
Lots of other people for me to get solnx.org off the ground, get the life extension operating, and get the security from war, famine, pestilence, comet & meteor strike that it will provide.
Me - to do a par round of golf.
Quite a few others, for various things.

A tiny orchid about 1/4 inch across on a sree face at about 6,000 ft.

I am as enlightened as I am.
It is the evening of our 15th wedding anniversary, we have just returned from an excellent meal at the Kaikoura Lodge, and are about to retire.  I'll leave other details to your imaginations.  Suffice it to say that I find my wife the most attractive woman I know.

What paradigms allow for the greatest possible freedom, with the greatest possible security?

So many things.
Spend time with my family.
Spend time doing fun and interesting things.
Ensure that my biological body had all the accessories it needed to keep itself going in good health indefinitely - with a biological age of about 25yrs.
Get satelite in place to be able to detect and deflect any incoming rocks of more than 2m diameter.
Develop satelite food supplies, sufficient to allow humanity to survive major volcanic events (ie very little sunlight for 10 years).
Develop satelite habitats for exploring genetic engineering, I particularly like the idea of creating fire breathing dragons and little faerey folk (just to prove to my daughter that it can be done).
Climb Mt Kilmanjaro.
Spend a year or two in Tibet.
Spend a lot of time travelling and experiencing different people and ways of doing things.
Get systems in place that maximised diversity, security and freedom.
Teach active tolerance.
Enjoy every breath.

Doesn't seem to be too worried about too much at all.
Between cuddles, yoga, tramping, walking the dogs and playing golf, it seems to be getting enough attention to be treating me with kindness at present.   Not as many aches and pains as I deserve after half a century of maltreating and neglecting it.

When we bought the house the room had this shape - that was our starting point.
Next was my wife's piano, it had to go against an internal wall (to minimise temperature fluctuation and moisture) - which gave it only one possible position.
Next was the large couch, with the piano in position there was only one wall big enough to fit it.
With the big couch in place, the little couch was next.
That left just one hole big enough for the stereo (30 years old) and TV.
With them in place there was just enough room to fit my Lazy-Boy armchair at the end of the piano - sitting slightly over the entranceway from the hall.
To my right and slightly forward is the dining room table and 4 chairs, and beyond them the welsh dresser and a couple of book cases on the only wall left.   There is a small gap where the electric piano normally goes but is away for repairs at present.
There is one other bookcase in the corner between the two couches that is filled mostly with classical music.  Another small bookcase contains CDs and DVDs, and a couple of boxes with Vinyl LPs.
There is a coffee table in the middle to my left surrounded by the two couches and piano.

The big dog is stretched out on the small couch, and the pup is lying across my feet.
A couple of poofs (footstools) are beside the coffee table.
The piano stool is directly to my left.
The wood burner stove is to my right.

Directly in front of me is a glass sliding door onto the deck, through which I can see the lights of town, and which during daylight gives me views of the moutains just 5 miles away.  The start of the bay (pacifc ocean) is just visible to the right of the door.

Any gaps on the walls are covered by original art works by my wife and daughter, and a few others, and a few pictures of family significance.

I have so much - loving family, live in beautiful place, lots of toys and choices, great community; yet have not made the progress I want on achieving life extension, and prosperity for all.

If I knew exactly what was blocking me, it wouldn't be blocking me - therein lies the problem.

That they are happy being who they are - they are fulfilled.

I grant to each their own authority over their own actions - no more, no less.

From one perspective that is one of the great unanswerable questions - and amounts to saying "Is there a God?"

A lot comes down to how one defines "life".
If one defines life by it's ability to interact with the environment, then that sort of takes the universe out of the equation, because it is the environment, and would have nothing to interact with except it's own internal processes.
After 50 odd years of enquiry, the idea of "God" as most people seem to imagine it seems highly improbable to me.
At the same time, I recognise and acknowledge many layers and levels of interconnectedness between all things, including a layer of pattern derived from the way that we store and retrieve information, that connects us to all existent patterns at some levels  - the deeper levels of which become available to the conscious awareness through practices such as meditation (and are thus experienced by most as communication with something else).
Thus I acknowledge the subjective reality of experiences of revelation and inspiration; while not necessarily accepting the explanatory sets offered by most people who have such experiences.

Life, to me, seems to be an emergent property of complex systems.
All life that we are aware of has it's basis in a process of evolution by natural selection, based upon one or more domains of replicators at some level gaining complexity over many generations.  This increase in complexity is not simply within one level, but includes the addition of new levels, new paradigms, new domains, within which evolution plays out anew, both within and between levels.

Thus it doesn't make any sense to me to see the universe as a living thing; any more than it makes sense to call a tennis court a game of tennis.  The universe is the arena within which the game of life is played.

I'd say that as a whole we are little past toddlerhood.

As nations we still seem to be in the "terrible 2s", with even the strongest nation on earth (USA) going into IRAQ and taking what it wanted (in terms of oil).

While some of use may be a little further ahead, we are still a long way short of universal tollerance (acceptance of everyone else's choice of path), and ptting in place systems that guarantee that every human (no exceptions) has the basic needs for survival through to self actualisation.  Some few of us are lucky enough to have those needs met, but most of the human family does not.

Then there is the small matter of our treatment of the environment that sustains us - or should that be mistreatment.

We have come a long way, but we have a great deal further to go.

Intellectually, keeping it simple speeds up resonses, and allows maximal range of response.

I try to remember as few key values as possible, and work everything out from there from first principles.  This keeps me active and practiced - prepared to cope with radically new input.

In a purely materialistic sense, simplicity places minimal strain on environmental resources, thus supporting greater life.

In a directional sense, the narrower the attention focus, the greater the pressure that can be applied to a single point, and the greater the probability of success/breakthrough == life in a new paradigm.

Being able to maintain both the big picture policy concepts and to simulataneously drill all the way down to details at all levels - down to atomic and occasionally subatomic.

I like ot know how everything works, and the to sit back and let my intuition inform me as to what is thebvmost powerful course of action to take.  Often it is being quiet and listening to others, and sometimes it is saying what is in me to say.

In terms of the future of humanity and the ecosystems that share this planet with us, it is about extending human lifespans, and creating self replicating robotics that can support us in ecologically sustainable ways.

My greatest gift is being able to interpret between widely different perspectives, and gain the trust and understanding of all involved.

Yes - but not consistently.

We have our observant moments.  Most often we see what we expect to see (and busily stuff square pegs into round holes).

We are truely capable of being observant, of oursleves and everythign about us, but most of us, most of the time, are not particularly observant.  Mostly we interpret what we see in terms of what we know.  Only very rarely are most of us open to totally new perceptions or conceptions.

In my understanding of the relationships between different systems - economic, ecological, political, environmental, computer systems, politics.

Starting to see clear ways forward to sustainable tecnologies.

Peace, Love, Clarity, Fun

I like to solve problems.
I like to use the amazing power of the intuition of the human brain to bring benefit to myself and others.
I like trying new things, learning new things, and taking intuitions from one domain to another.

Create systems that solve problems.  The bit of the process that doesn't do anything for me is developing the test scenarios to prove that what I have created will actually work in all expected situations.
There are lots of things I love to do, most involve learning new ideas, or new skills, and perfecting them - in both the physical and the intellectual realms (I have a lot of cross fertilisation between these realms).

www.solnx.org is my best shot at solving the biggest, big picture problems facing humanity.

All I need to do is to find/create some way to make it happen.