We are then in the midst of a cognitive revolution in which (1)
cognition is ****fting rapidly to the fore to dominate the structuring of
every area of life, and (2) self-consciousness of this process and of
its radical implications is slowly developing... What we thought of as
social conveniences for individual interests, our social institutions,
are ****fting toward being an external nervous system, determining the
capacities and structure of our species intelligence. Recognition of
this is also a new part of our self-consciousness.
And both our new design capacities and our emerging cognitive
selfconsciousness have raised in acute form the true nature of our own
intelligence and personhood: the questions of transcendence. These
processes are, I suggest, the true and secret significance of the
twentieth century. They define, more truly than quantum mechanics,
television, moon landings or the World Bank, what is distinctive about
the underlying structural ****fts in the life processes on the planet in
our times.
Meanwhile, we poor individuals are caught. Caught between
scepticism and mysticism. We cannot expect the next moments of history
to resolve the issues for us. Caught between the normative and the
descriptive: caught between the assimilation of the past to become the
persons we can now be and the preselection of the future, to become the
persons we may hope yet to be. We cannot expect some external "nature"
to make these decisions for us. Caught between the cognitive and the
political, between commitment to the historical process of science and
the historical process of political and personal liberation...
Perhaps, like the mystics, we may be given the grace to intuit the
transcendent self through the mosaic.
- C. A. Hooker
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