Parabanger, thank you for a thoughtful critique. Here is a paragraph from your previous message:
> God knows what the Human Voice is. But humans cant know. A VoH *emerges* from all the quintillions of weird beliefs people have. It is an infinite recursion to think you can measure everyone's beliefs if everyone's beliefs depended on everyone else's beliefs.
I agree. We cannot possibly encompass everyone's beliefs in a collective voice of humanity. But consider, the same argument can be made of the individual ability to express oneself in words. Yet we do talk and are generally glad to be able to do so. An individual voice emerges from the billions of fleeting thoughts and memories that one person has, each of which is dependent on all the other thoughts and memories in an infinite recursion.
No one thing that we say as individuals comes even close to representing us as the individuals that we are. And of course the same thing will be true of messages chosen via the VoH process to represent humanity. Each single utterance of the Voice of Humanity will only give us a clue as to our collective nature. No one saying of Humanity will fully represent us as the hugely diverse and interdependent human race that we are. Not even close!
I wouldn’t pursue this project except I believe that at the all inclusive level of humanity-as-one, we will only agree on good, never on evil. Too many people will be against a mean or cruel saying for it to “win”. Likewise for the voices of Women, Men, Youth, Experience and Wisdom. And I think too that because in every culture we also appreciate spirit and wit, that messages expressing those qualities will come to the top. Generous, spirited and intelligent messages will be chosen to represent humanity again and again. Over time, we will find that our collective nature can be relied upon.
While it will be a blessing to live in such a world, we need to realize as individuals that there is always a chance that humanity as a whole might go off the rails! Our continued vigilance and input is critical. (Don’t forget to vote this Nov 8, 2016. ;-)
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