the purest embodiment of dharma is a prion which goes to show how fucked the association of "pure" with "good" is
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Replying to @chaosprime
Could you elaborate? A prion seems like a prototypical "pure replicator" and it certainly has a dharma, but conscious beings also have dharmas. The "goal" of a prion is maybe the "easiest to understand" but I don't see why this is the "purest"
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purest in the sense of uncomplicated by any interacting factors
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Replying to @chaosprime
I disagree then. Prions require non-diseased proteins to replicate, so they can't "fulfill their dharma" alone. The trajectory of their adaptation is also guided by their environment, see belowhttps://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007093 …
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I propose virtual particles as a slightly more "self-fulfilling" example. They seem to appear anywhere in the universe at any time, so the environmental determinism is lower. In addition, even current non-existence is not enough to stop their future existence!
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I expect that as we consider objects that are less and less "determined" by their environment, we're going to get weirder objects. To put it the converse way, objects that we can easily understand are objects that have obvious connections to causal antecedents.
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i would problematize the premise that dharma requires fulfillment or fulfillability
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Replying to @chaosprime
A self-fulfilling prophecy "In a logical system it is convenient enough to say that possibility passes over into actuality. In reality it is not so easy, and an intermediate determinant is necessary. That intermediate determinant is anxiety." -Kierkegaard, "The Concept of Dread"
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Replying to @Mellow_Mizz @chaosprime
In other words: If we think knowing the present world-state is knowing how future outcomes will play out, then there's no need to be anxious. If we (like me) think that the future's potential hasn't been fulfilled yet, then we're aware of something unknowable and we feel anxiety.
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Wtf, this will take me hours to imagine concrete examples for. Give me timepic.twitter.com/tefeSw3kql
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