

“And therefore, we have space migration and life extension as very probable trajectories of where we are going. Intelligence increase or I2, the middle part of SMI2LE, is Leary’s peculiar emphasis. He points out that psychology has never been a science; it’s always been groping in the dark. But it is advancing, like the other sciences. He feels that in the next ten, twenty or thirty years psychology will become a true science, in the sense that we can then change anything about ourselves we want to change. We will have the knowledge; we will have the techniques. He thinks we’ve got some of them already. And it will be possible to tune our nervous system to different levels of consciousness and intelligence at will.”
― Coincidance: A Head Test
― Coincidance: A Head Test

“Well, SMI2LE is Leary’s slogan for space migration, plus intelligence increase, plus life extension. It’s an interesting formula because, if you want to look at it this way, we all live in a triangle of space, time and consciousness. How much space can we travel through? How much time do we have? And how conscious are we of what’s going on? The whole direction of evolution seems to be to produce beings that have much more space, more time and more consciousness.”
― Coincidance: A Head Test
― Coincidance: A Head Test
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