In reverse, what you can contribute to the collective edifice of culture will echo forever in the thoughts and experiences of future humans. Our minds have the potential for immortality.
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As cultural beings, we are echoes of the past: even our most personal thoughts, emotions, and experiences are mediated by words, images, and ideas we inherited from previous generations. Your mind was born and started growing many thousands of years before your body.
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sounds like cumulative cultural evolution: https://www.amazon.ca/Cultural-Origins-Human-Cognition/dp/0674005821 …
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I think that “Probably Approximately Correct” by Leslie Valiant makes a similar point
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Then, do you believe in Chomsky's 'Syntactic Structures" theory? It runs somewhat contrary to what modern statistical language processing aims to model.
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I think the body is even older, considering we inherited our dna from our ancestors.
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made of Stardust ;)
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God said to Moses: I AM WHO I AM.
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However, these behaviors, emotions and attitudes.. etc will be positively changed if you consciencely recognized them and you intended to avoid them.
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