Extended Mind

What is computer science, anyway? What it means to create a program is to create a logical structure, a flow chart for decisions. In the end it is a way of replicating and automating our own thought processes. However it can be much more powerful in terms of the brute force and memory manipulations. It involves all manner of processing designed to extend the capacity of human reason. Instruments can be used to gather information, and then we can process it and disseminate it where it is needed. Fundamentally, though, whatever interest we as human beings have for information is judged by our own necessity. In the state of the world now, we already have too much information available to us. What we need at this point has more to do with making all of that information already available into something practically meaningful to us. But any technology is just a technology; it has to serve a purpose. So on the one hand, we need a single coherent worldview. On the other hand we need some kind of plan to cultivate a life worth living. Other than that, we need networks of people to share our past experiences and dreams for the future. I think the answer then, is in the network itself.