You must've missed it: I referred to genomes (genes) with no mention of "those who feel immortal". Careful, Fool. Don't confuse mortality as a 'geneti...
... to make room for descendants. After all, genomic self-replicators self-replicate or perish: without mortality, I think, natality would not be suff...
'Idealism' presupposes – supervenes on – (non-reductive) physicalism; that is, consciousness (i.e. mind) is an emergent process, or activity, under su...
:up: It's "imprecise" to the point of being incorrect (i.e. useless) – not NU at all as I've pointed out. It means 'to grow, thrive, beyond mere survi...
:up: Rereading this thread ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n6cBRx2Ie6A "Guerrilla Radio" (3:26) The Battle of Los Angeles, 1999 Rage Against the Mac...
This is incorrect. This ad absurdum makes no sense. The highest – not "only" – moral end of NU is for the living (sapient sentients "that ... suffer")...
My guess: in the Gaussian main, we h. sapiens have been reliably 'bio-cognitively programmed' (i.e. driven) by natural selection pressures to live on ...
"Evil" is a religious (i.e. supernatural, etc) concept that renders 'good & bad' indistinguishable or an irrelevant distinction (re: theodicy aka "tel...
By euthanizing (by inaction) in the first case and not proceating or aborting in the second, inherently diminished, or abject, living conditions are p...
:roll: :smirk: Since we're only speculating here, consider this aural allusion (link above) to a transition from terrestrial history to extraterrestri...
Four Americas: "Free", "Smart", "Real" & "Just". Packer's essay leaves out a fifth, the one that matters most because it strategically exacerbates (th...
:smirk: I wonder, JR, what you make of this (@ the intersection of your RPGs & mine): https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/09/us/six-days-in-fallujah-iraq-vide...
'Aligning expectations with reality' (being absurdist) tends to reduce foolery (misery) and thereby optimizes agency (well-being). Raised and schooled...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=scyC9A6o_Ts "People of the Sun" (2:50) Evil Empire, 1996 Rage Against the Machine ~~~~~~~ (In the US) Happy Columbus Ind...
This "not a deflection" reminds of when someone says "I'm not racist or prejudice, but ..." or "Some of my closest friends are black, but ..." I'm one...
:up: :up: Well then somebody ought to hurry up and tell the Scandanavian / Nordic countries that they've been doing their brand of welfare-state capit...
:point: examples of white-on-white violence & crime. Under sufficient duress, any community will turn on itself and folks will prey on their own due t...
I agree; being so "needful", in fact, I think "the spirit" motivates – the muses move – people to philosophize, empirically research and conjecture, c...
Yes – cursed (blinkered) literal-mindedness, and therefore "our myths" are more often than not taken out of context (i.e. language games of one form-o...
"The human body is the best picture of the human soul." ~Witty Some implications of this ghostly fetish: NB: They say "self-reference is good for the ...
Same problem: artificially generating and/or controlling a stellar / supermassive black hole. Not going to happen based on current physics or engineer...
We'd need to be able to generate massive amounts of negative energy (e.g. "anti-gravity" à la inflation???) on both ends of the wormhole to open and t...
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