Is There a Super Mind?

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The journey of the mind suggests that minds are going to keep expanding to new levels of reality. This reminds me of, i dontn if you know a tealhard hypermat we call them hyper minds, hyper minds. The suggestion is that our moral choices should be based on what kind of god we're bringing into being. If we act selfishly with narrow views for ourselves, just out for ourselves, this is self and cruel and domineering. So instead of saying, god is separate thing or it comes down to us worshiping someone who will eventually arise up from nothing. It's more like building future gods. We are constructing gods that will exist in the future.

Why do you exist? How did atoms and molecules transform into sentient creatures that experience longing, regret, compassion, and even marvel at their own existence? What does it truly mean to have a mind―to think? Science has offered few answers to these existential questions until now.

Michael Shermer speaks with computational neuroscientist, Ogi Ogas, about his unified account of the mind that explains how consciousness, language, self-awareness, and civilization arose incrementally out of chaos, and how leading cities and nation-states are developing “superminds,” and perhaps planting the seeds for even higher forms of consciousness.