Examining the SHAPE of Existence, Part 2

In my <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/examining-the-shape-of-existence-part-1-d9bcd477e50b" rel="noopener">last article</a>, we discussed how to think about the SHAPE of Self, Society, Civilization, and Humanity at large. Each shape has a size, quality, and various domains of activity within it. It grows in scale the further away they are from the Self, and uncovered how difficult it gets to comprehend the whole picture the further away yourself we get. We ended with Humanity and its dual-phase type of quality. Quantum thinking might call this superposition if you're nerdy like me about that stuff. Indeed, Humanity has a superposition in that it is planetarily huge and intimately tiny, encompassing the totality of all of us and each of us simultaneously. It’s tough to think of things that way and how they impact our daily lives, but I find it helpful when stepping back and reflecting on how we interact with each other. So, when topics like climate change, political views, or the future of AI come up, I tend to extract from my mental SHAPE map to understand better where others are coming from and then start forming my opinions. <a href="https://medium.com/illumination/examining-the-shape-of-existence-part-2-7381506bdb28">Website</a>