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Have you not viewed this exciting video that takes us on a tour of the first second of our physical spacetime known as the universe? If not, you ought to for understanding how large an amount a second really is. One hundred years of human life time is not only physical but also societal. In fact, the societal is more relevant than the physical for the human specie as well as for all the other lives of this physical universe because matter is conjectured to be a mere 5% while the rest is dark energy and dark matter unknown and invisible to us. In similar vain, Societal spacetime might be invisible and only felt and experienced through the natural languages.
Humans, animals and birds may all need to interact with one another in this societal spacetime with infinite care to understand and benefit from the physical universe, the planet earth and its other inhabitants of plants, water, gases, microbes to other living and non-living. The tools and technologies needed are yet to be developed and are just being explored. Many of these can not be learnt in a life time and even if they could, they will perish when that life ends and all the investment would be lost for ever and become a waste. Instead, it might be wiser to invest in bots that do not die but can remain as a permanent infrastructure to aide the new born. This view is well explained in this answer to a question in many minds.
Speaking of minds, isn’t there a societal mind? How invisible is this societal-mind? Is societal-mind in the media, in the writings or in other media of films, videos and arts? How can we capture every second of these societal-spacetime events and their impact on human minds and their reverberations? Isn’t this a monumental task? Where, when, and how can we begin?
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