General Human Tendencies

Mark Kurlansky's Salt quotes another book-- Salt and the Alchemical Soul, by Ernest Jones when it says:

"in all ages salt has been invested with a significance far exceeding that inherent in its natural properties, interesting and important as these are. Homer calls it a divine substance, Plato describes it as especially dear to the Gods, and we shall presently note the importance attached to it in religious ceremonies, covenants, and magical charms. That this should have been so in all parts of the world and in all times shows that we are dealing with a general human tendency and not with any local custom, circumstance or notion,"

Reading Salt will show you just how much of a "general human tendency," NaCl is. The reason I bring it up is so we can notice that preparing food with salt is not the only tendency humans share universally. Food, farmed or foraged is prepared, usually with heat. Clothing traditions are ubiquotous. Shelter-- temporary or permanent is necessary for survival. Medicine is universal, as is specialization of work. Some might consider agriculture to be universal, but there are still some hunter gatherers. Categorization is a general habit along with recognition of things that fall into the category of divine or supernatural.

Technological development, especially communications technology, should be framed around the basic conversations of social and environmental management. With agentic AI systems and practice we can fashion global human activity based on mutual supply and demand authority for all people.

There is a way. Consider the work being done on the Agrinet Project. There's more to come