TL;DR

• Belief and action create and sustain a pattern, which in turn justifiy the belief in that pattern. This is how we create supra-organisms
• Mi identidad es difusa en el tiempo y el espacio. Se extiende más allá de mi piel. Y en ese sentido, yo existiré después de mi muerte, al igual que existía antes de mi nacimiento.

Esta oración me la enseñó Rosalba, mi profe de inglés del colegio. Desde entonces me gusta mucho y la recuerdo con frecuencia.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Me gusta por dos razones:

1. Porque me anima a tener un rol activo en el mundo. Me dice que mis acciones importan.
2. Me recuerda la importancia de la fe. Porque practicarla hace que su predicción sea cierta. En esta oración se aprecia cómo emerge un supra-organismo.

Leap of faith

Ant bridge

Flock of birds

Cómo emerge un supra-organismo

Belief in a higher-level pattern facilitates action. Collective action creates and sustains the pattern, which in turn justifies the belief in it. So we believe that the individual is mobilized by a higher force and spirit, because he actually is.

By believing we create the supra-organism, and by giving to it, we receive benefits from it. We create a self-fulfilling prophecy. We set in motion a self-sustaining pattern, like a community of mutually cooperating agents in an iterated game of the prisoner's dilemma. Such a community could only have begun with a leap of faith in the reciprocation of other agents.