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dimreepr

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  1. What about, what is the meaning of 'my' life? I spent year's, "42", figuring out that one, bloody computer's were no help... 😉
  2. If you've never been driven to eat out of a bin, I doubt your taste buds have tingled quite so much...
  3. But none of them thought about why... I just like to think about it, I don't care why. Your purpose may vary... 😉
  4. That's where you're missing my point, Merleau-Ponty I think was just pointing out the difficulty in disentangling the mind from the body and not that the body thinks. The "brave new world" is just describing our modern world, with extreme prescience given when it was writen. The point being we can't engineer a safe world for everybody/thing (everything is on something's menu), it will always fail bc those not included in the plan will find a way to beat the plan; in the context of the OP, "shit happens"... What about those that can't? Not everyone can afford a good education, let alone a hooker... 😉
  5. It's a fine line to tread, questions are great but only if you're willing to listen, properly and honestly, to the answer; by which I mean, not having faith in the answer you want to hear. Boasting is an interesting word to use, bc when you do understand well enough to be able to say that, it will have lost it's meaning for you... 😉 I hope you do, it's always nice to learn more.
  6. That's not what he's saying, we're like mobile anthill all of the part's are inseparable and they all inform the context of our story, if we lose an arm the story changes. Everything is on somethings menu. You do like to change the goalposts 🙄, but OK I'll bite; what is the actual question? In 'A Brave new world' the world is engineered to provide everything we need, in a peaceful world; what's wrong with that?
  7. There is no short cut to understanding, if you want to be a pier, you have to build the foundations; just saying "what he said", is not being an honest seeker of truth... 😉
  8. It's one of those bias's we're unaware of, like why is that brand my favourite? A flash of genuine understanding, in the fog of life, is always worth striving for bc you will never be disapointed; believe me, it's far more satisfying than the best <insert drug> high and it lasts a lifetime. Like who thinks?
  9. No to the idea that there's objective truth (whatever definition) to be told or taught, for life to make sense we have to self contextualise, then our story can flow. There is no correct perspective, not even your's.
  10. If it ain't broke, why fix it? The only way it affects me is, two Sundays a year I'll wake up, either a bit earlier or a bit later than I expected...😉
  11. Do you imagine you're any less trainable? It won't be a dead end, but it will never lead to the 'ultimate' truth... 😉 Indeed, that was my point... Any notion that we're somehow special/spiritual is purely subjective, if you want to believe otherwise, then good luck my friend, but: I've always thought that that quote should end with the word, 'honestly', just to remind the pseudoscientist's...
  12. TBH I thought it was you that brought up the number's related objective, but OK let's bin that; what's left is objective purpose (unless you have your own definition), which, when we drill down to the fundamentals, is to continue living; but that's not a universal given for all people or creature's, some of them get the urge to shag themselves to death, they wake up one day and their purpose has changed they now fundamentally, want to die and some people chose now to end their life. Like I said, "whatever way I parse this, the answer is no."
  13. Employer's only really care that their employees aren't sad enough to pull a sickie...
  14. But what's left is a spiritual aspect, and there's as much evidence for that as there is for a god. My ant analogy was meant to illustrate that a simple (binary) response can give the illusion of intelligence (thinking), without a conscious mind that control's their action's. Even if we do come to understand our own consciousness, which we don't, that wouldn't be evidence of any other entity's qualification. How do you know they're not lying, or suffering from a bias they're unaware of? Just acknowledging that bias exists doesn't mean you're not free of them, it's like the oft heard excuse from someone accused of racism "I can't be a racist because my best friend is black". That's like saying, "when I'm tall enough to see out of this window, I'll be able to see the whole world." No, it basically means the potential for the right neuron to receive the message; in wiring term's, a big enough charge to bridge the gap.
  15. And we circle back to my point, even if a computer is conscious we will never know. That's the thing about rabbit holes, they're a warren of unknowns. 😉 I think the word potential is confusing you, think of it in terms of the wiring rather than the thinking.
  16. We're either talking past each other or you're being obtuse. I seek no objective in life, I'm happy to just sit here and think about thing's, what number would you give that? Either I'm to stupid to understand or you haven't explained it well enough, it's bad form to refuse a request for clarification. Ok, please show me the mathematics of how you would model the reality of fun? You do know that we haven't got a TOE, nor the prospect of getting one, don't you? Irony, I suspect, is just as difficult to pin down for a mathematician. 😉
  17. Employers care, they want more natural light during working hours, all that free vitamin D makes less sad worker's... The night shift, on their own... 🤞
  18. And you're not making any sense... It has to me... What is it I'm projecting? Whichever way I parse this, the answer is no...
  19. That's just diving down a rabbit hole, that we don't need to explore; for instance, an ant can do some very clever thing's in real estate but it's no architect, it never thinks (as we understand it) it just processes very simple data according to a relatively simple algorithm. Trees communicate, but they never think about why... 😉
  20. Not for everyone, that's why we're in this mess; Trump, for instance, is far more likely to spend his last day's in a comfortably warm prison cell, than fighting for the last blade of grass, as is the son he taught...
  21. Essentially, the fall of Rome is the same as every other epoch, IOW "This too shall pass"...
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