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Vera Mont

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That's no problem, though the absurd extreme was uncalled-for. I just think I've explained as much as I'm prepared to. Yes. And machines don't.
August 09, 2024 at 00:12
Needs - identification - desire: it's a transition over some period of time. Forgive me if I don't recall minute-to-minute events of my first few week...
August 08, 2024 at 23:36
Wrong order. Had needs. Learned to identify them. Received appropriate care. Developed desire. Learned to differentiate and express desires. I may hav...
August 08, 2024 at 20:30
Y'll take care now!
August 08, 2024 at 19:44
They'd shoot you dead, just for being incomprehensible. Red-blooded, gun-totin' 'Merickans hate it when they don't understand something. As for Pratch...
August 08, 2024 at 18:43
He'd had a number of run-ins with these guys over policy decisions while he was a member of the Assembly. He was smarter than they, had much influence...
August 08, 2024 at 16:57
Not in your present form!!! Assume a disguise that appears a lot less vulnerable.
August 08, 2024 at 16:29
Yes. The breathing came automatically, as did theneed for nourishment; part of the organic package in which my DNA finds expression. But the desire fo...
August 08, 2024 at 16:27
No. It can analyze and replicate very well. That's what we use it for. I'm saying it's impossible for an unconscious entity, however intelligent and p...
August 08, 2024 at 15:05
Not that foggy! It's something you have to be conscious to know it exists. To a rock, a plant doesn't "seem" to desire sunlight: a rock doesn't know, ...
August 08, 2024 at 04:50
Indeed. And the operative word there is "develop". You have to grow your own; can't appropriate that of another species.
August 08, 2024 at 04:41
Politicians are in no position to set moral standards. They can make speeches and pass legislation, but they can't be your conscience. No, that's diff...
August 08, 2024 at 04:02
The body's willing, but the mind balks. If there is some underlying motive in an unconscious entity, it was programmed in by a conscious one. Then the...
August 08, 2024 at 02:19
That was precisely my objection. The operative word is "seem". Conscious beings with desires look at a plant see change in its orientation so that it ...
August 08, 2024 at 02:11
In that case, I don't suppose our alarm clocks or prayers would have much effect on them. I won't bother them; I'm not in that league.
August 07, 2024 at 23:44
Does it relate to the desire for consciousness?
August 07, 2024 at 23:41
And do you, Chatty, have the motivation to expend whatever resources it takes to schlepp across the galaxy and steal it from somebody? Do you, without...
August 07, 2024 at 21:14
Ummmm.... ?
August 07, 2024 at 20:16
Ah, a muse for every purpose. I suppose... Me, I prefer one familiar spirit, even not a particularly powerful one. (My top favourite Terry Pratchett b...
August 07, 2024 at 20:13
Could you cope with a committee of the of the pesky things?
August 07, 2024 at 14:16
No,no! That's not what I found intriguing. I was intrigued, in spite of that, by the cinematic and structural care that went into making the series. T...
August 07, 2024 at 13:41
We pursue what we believe to be best for us - and sometimes what we know to be bad for us, yet want anyway.
August 06, 2024 at 23:59
Here is a father with three adult daughters, whom he claims to love and whose love he demands, and he has no frickin' idea who they are! So he falls f...
August 06, 2024 at 20:57
Nevertheless, intriguing. Strong echoes of Orson Welles. It also stirred memories of Gunsmoke and The Rifleman. Of course, the TV frontier towns of my...
August 06, 2024 at 18:59
Thanks, will seek.
August 06, 2024 at 17:35
They played with that idea in TNG, Voyager and DS9. The time travel episodes were some of the most fun, so I was happy to suspend disbelief. I sure wo...
August 06, 2024 at 14:49
Parfois, une pipe n'est qu'une pipe.... Only someone accustomed to television imagery would think that of Freud. Now you got me all worked up about it...
August 05, 2024 at 19:33
That's what I thought you meant. So, the handshake is not an agreement to undertake a common enterprise or or end a conflict. Someone tells you that t...
August 05, 2024 at 14:44
Minute 1 of day 1, get rid of those piles of klunky hardware they substituted for computers. Even STNG still has half a dozen big tablet things to con...
August 04, 2024 at 23:50
Also a different kind of arrogance and a different kind of divine retribution. There is a long tradition in European literature of fathers demanding t...
August 04, 2024 at 23:28
ugh! wallotext - edit Certainly they do. But the playwrights were there first, before psychiatry was invented and before the father confessor became a...
August 04, 2024 at 20:17
Don't forget psychologist. As were the Greek playwrights.
August 04, 2024 at 18:43
So, which is it? Assent (acceptance), agreement (accord) or consent (permission)?
August 04, 2024 at 16:44
I had to take Shakespeare in high school, a play of appropriate difficulty to each year, from Julius Caesar to King Lear. I didn't care for Lear - ove...
August 04, 2024 at 14:11
I'm not a handsy person, either, though I would not scorn someone's hand if offered in good faith. Lowest level of assent calls for a curt nod. Physic...
August 04, 2024 at 00:34
A larger problem for young people is that life experience blurs into, is confused with and sometimes subsumed by virtual, electronic life. It's not a ...
August 03, 2024 at 15:42
That has always been the function of public entertainment. When we discuss Greek tragedy or epic poetry, we sometimes forget that it was big business ...
August 03, 2024 at 12:49
like boxing glove to the solar plexus
August 02, 2024 at 23:40
Religious institutions no longer supply people with the comfort and reassurance they once did. I should say, most don't, though some still provide a w...
August 02, 2024 at 22:04
They're forgettable enough. I've also ventured into tragic/pathetic territory, but I don't find it hospitable. I much prefer optimistic fare.
August 02, 2024 at 17:51
I wasn't talking about satisfaction, but specifically about the cathartic effect of melodrama and tragedy. Our entertainments don't just come in the f...
August 02, 2024 at 17:07
One problem, these guys are way out of date. There was once tragic theater and poetry to purge the baser emotions of the highly refined audience. The ...
August 02, 2024 at 03:14
Another thing about physical books: they don't need to be plugged in or recharged; they keep working when the power is cut off by weather, malfunction...
August 01, 2024 at 03:10
That's nice if you have servants, novices (or a compliant wife) to take care of your physical needs, and then you need not occupy yourself with any ot...
July 31, 2024 at 20:25
All entertainment is very much about its content. Like gladiatorial contests, blood sacrifice, public execution, bullfights, etc. Humans have always b...
July 30, 2024 at 13:07
And yet we revel in the cultural renderings of it: expensive funerals, Hallowe'en, silly movies and tv serials about undertakers, zombies, etc; scary ...
July 30, 2024 at 01:07
Given that the majority of people still subscribe to religions with a promise of continuity - afterlife or rebirth - I can't see the brain having chan...
July 29, 2024 at 19:30
Uh-huh.
July 28, 2024 at 23:45
What is it you wanted to discuss?
July 28, 2024 at 21:24
You never know what you're paying for with taxes. You are told some things; you see some effects of government spending, but you can never find out ho...
July 28, 2024 at 19:28