What does the term "human condition" mean to you, and how would you describe yours? (looking for the poetic/philosophical takes, not your economic/career/personal condition)
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We are "creatures of deficiency," as Hans Blumenberg put it. We have the Faustian ability to conceive of the theoretical possibility of a contented completeness, and we pursue it endlessly.
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continual inevitable screeching gear-grinding misalignment between the world and a world-modeling capacity sufficient to build infinite alternate worlds, flaring in an unending phoenix cycle of suffering and creativity
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Ability to contemplate unlimited possibilities, combined with the knowledge you have to choose between them.
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It doesn't really mean anything to me, I don;t use it in my thinking. It's too anthropocentric, I prefer 'reality' to describe that set of ideas.
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Just enough brain to either be unhappy or make everyone else so.
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A deeply social species where each member is convinced they’re individual and distinct from all others. A species who craves equilibrium and seeks volatility. Who cannot communicate without shared experience, but pursues mutation.
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