The reason unknown/death/loneliness is the same is because courage is the distance one can leave the mass of humanity. The farther you can go from the shore, the more skilled you are. You are a Great Explorer of the Unknown.
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The spirit of Slavery is like rounding up a bunch of rafters as food to exploit. E.g you create a massive group of stupid people like you would a cattle farm. Everyday you choose a select slice of Wagyu Beef to enjoy.
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Stopping this thread here for now. Key idea I wanted to pull on was the "Rope as Boundary" paradox and the "Fundamental Loneliness" issue. There's possibly more interesting ideas in the "Humanity as Rafts" analogy.
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Addendum thought: The most we can ask of another is "Tell me what you see". We can't literally "See" how someone else's consciousness is interpreting photons. The greater our mastery of this "rope" of English, the more 'alive' our interaction is despite its low fidelity.
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E.g., with enough brainpower, we can communicate with 0s and 1s and describe infinitely detailed ideas. (But the 'Truth' of what someone elses sees is a whole different level of infinity.)
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