Joscha, who is responsible for that lock? And do you truly believe that your independent reality is that singular?
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
No, it’s not singular at all. I agree 85% with Aristotle on everything, and have almost no disagreements with Kant, Turing, Wittgenstein and even Aquinas. It was such a relief when I noticed that I am not alone.
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Replying to @Plinz @Grady_Booch
The lock is the result of my difficulty to fall in shared trance. It’s a painful disability and also what makes me useful to others
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Replying to @Plinz
And by calling it a shared trance you condescending judge what most of us would call the reality of being human. Rest assured that that POV is not useful to me, but I respect that you believe it is relevant to some.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
I am not condescending, just estranged and appalled
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Replying to @Plinz
I celebrate that you are self-aware of that state of being. A serious question: is this something you wish to change, or are content to remain, and be defined by being on your chosen side of the lock?
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
I don’t feel that I have a choice about this. I am trying the best I can do in this life.
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Replying to @Plinz
Please know that I observe that you do have a choice. I have always found you to be intentional and introspective - both very powerful values - and seems to me that there is no law of physics that holds you back. The path will be hard, but it is not outside your reach.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch
Moreover, I am committed to playing the longest game and to serve civilization. But I don't see a path that leads me to merging with the general human hive mind, i.e. the present culture. It's the mind of a narcissist orkish monstrosity that violates truth and beauty.
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Replying to @Plinz
HAL said something similar: " I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do."
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HAL was literally a scared 12 year old
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Replying to @Plinz
Emotionally perhaps Which also, perhaps, makes my observation the more germane.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @Plinz
I think the root of what you're getting at is "ignorance is bliss" once you're exposed to certain life experiences: knowledge, deep traumas, or otherwise, it's difficult to 'go back'.
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