50M years for a new generally intelligent species?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
50M years ago our direct ancestors were basically little squirrels.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
I have little hope for our mind children. We will make them ruthlessly efficient devourers, at least one of them. Evolution had so much slack that it gave rise to a few of us dreamers. Intelligence and fitness are just pointless.
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Replying to @RitaJKing
Yes, but it needs a mind with a similarly shaped soul to host it.
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Replying to @Plinz
This is a major theme in the book I am about to finish writing. Do you believe that all humans have similarly shaped souls or that there's variability among our souls?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
The soul can be thought of as the differential between you and a perfectly rational agent. There are obviously very differently shaped souls, sufficiently characteristic that we also map the souls of others to recognize our own tribe, and those we love.
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Replying to @Plinz @RitaJKing
It is probably not a good idea to publicly compare our taxonomies of souls, but perhaps one day we can talk about it in person.
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But we can say that the soul is literally the relationship of the individual to its Gods. God is the identification of a superorganism from the perspective of the individual. Most Gods are aligned with social entities, but ours are purely transcendental.
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Replying to @Plinz
Aren't all Gods aligned with social entities and transcendental?
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Replying to @RitaJKing
The Gods of Islam, Catholicism, the Mormons etc. are used to anchor norms, whereas spiritual gods are only intentional and ask for purity, and fully transcendental truth gods don't align with humanity at all, so norms beyond elementary integrity will be secularized.
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