Given the high probability that our world is not, strictly speaking, a mere object of our perception, to that same degree its stability will eventually become vulnerable due to the natural and artificial amplification of some forms of spontaneously initiated disturbances of a mass psychological nature. So, despite the fact that any form of preparation is likely to hasten the anticipated instability of our world, it is deemed that a minimal, quasi-public preparation effort at this time would be our best overall strategy.
To the degree that there is a subjective component inherent to all of reality, to that degree the world must be considered to be a construct of all perceivers. Any construct of that sort is open to a similar deconstruction. Furthermore, based on various historical and logical considerations, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the potentiality for its timely deconstruction would have been an essential feature of our world from its inception.
There are two scientific results which have a special bearing on our considerations. The first is that our individual mental functions appear to be highly integrated and correlated to the rest of reality. The second is that those same functions are far more resistive to analysis than any other aspect of reality. These two results combined offer a very strong argument favoring the notion that our minds manifest an essential aspect of all of reality, despite the fact that our scientific endeavor has heretofore been premised upon the contrary conception of reality.
So far we have spoken of the world as a construct that might be deconstructed. The other possibility to consider is the eventual reconstruction of the world. How that might actually come about is very difficult for us even to imagine at this very early stage of our reconceptualization of the world. But, certainly, our proper reconceptualization will be a principle ingredient of the reconstruction process.
What I am suggesting is that our world may not be quite as 'natural' as it appears. Behind its apparent naturalness, there exists a considered purposiveness in which we have, up to this point, been the unwitting collaborators. Our unwittingness had been one of the design features. We are about to make a dramatic conversion to being conscious collaborators in the larger scheme of things. At that point we are participating in the recreation of our world. We become reality engineers, for better or worse.
Dan T. Smith, Baltimore, MD