Seven years ago, I met a group of leaders in Boston representing some of the most impactful philanthropic organisations in the world spending over a billion dollars collectively. And I was struck by the deep sense of overwhelm, even despair, they were all experiencing.
Powerful! I am now pondering the following:
how do I (in my Earthaconter community) raise up the potential of AI and recognize it as playing a part in the phase shift and embody the belief that it is as much part of the natural world as I am and everything that exists under the Sun? (and possibly beyond!)
how do I respect my discomfort with cellular agriculture and vegetable proteins (whilst recognizing my lack of understanding)?
what do I do with my fear of this different yet still mechanistic production approach to food?
It still doesn’t respect our microbiome diversity, food biome and the unintended consequences as we ignore the ‘genius’ or nature and the power of coeveolution arising over billions of years.
And how do I embrace the power of this emerging food technology as a part of the natural world in this case as well as for AI?
And yet I have no alternative answers.
And yet having answers in itself provides feelings of security, control and that modern addiction of ‘being right’.
Perhaps the feeling of being right is the ‘treatment’ for the underlying anxiety. Which allows me to continue to act as I play God, participating in intellectual games, pretending to know whilst knowing that magic and mystery are as much part of nature as anything.
Coming back to this and I feel at rest and at home again.
Thanks Nafeez