{"id":5116,"date":"2013-04-06T21:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-06T16:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srinivasv.com\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2017-08-27T17:36:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T12:06:59","slug":"the-craft-of-human-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/the-craft-of-human-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"The craft of human possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"romanfirst\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">I<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human possibility is not about \u201ccapability\u201d. It is about human evolution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"roman\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">II<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Human evolution takes places because humans confer upon themselves new possibilities, and then \u2018will\u2019 themselves to realize those possibilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"roman\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">III<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The power of \u201cconferring possibility\u201d on oneself is uniquely human. Because we are human, we have the potential to &#8216;be&#8217; and &#8216;become&#8217;. All other living entities operate within the structure of their constraints \u2013 in short their possibilities are a function of capabilities. In human beings alone capabilities are a function of possibilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"roman\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">IV<\/p>\n<p class=\"hp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Is Man\u2019s physical frame itself a boundary? History has shown not. We accomplish motion faster than our two legs. We accomplish even song greater than the sounds from our lips.<\/p>\n<p>Man has consistently created, where necessary, tools that extend his own capabilities, once he has seen for himself the possibilities he wants to realize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"roman\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">V<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Can human possibilities be created? Can it be engineered? Or, in a new language, evolved? Both at an individual level and a community level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is man\u2019s physical frame itself a boundary? History has shown not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[105],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9381,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5116\/revisions\/9381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/srinivasv.com\/mapsofbecoming\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}