Maybe visit a college and take an interest inventory test? Being a leader doesn't necessarily lead to happiness. And not being a leader doesn't make you a follower by default.

Huh?

I hope we can find more intelligent beings. That might answer the question better than anything so far.

Kind of feels like lots of people fear the big questions. They have trouble as we all do with the humdrum stuff so thinking about our significance as a people is just too much to think about.

In particular how does one meet local people to talk to about big topics about morality and existence?

Yes, general public.

Is our intelligence uniquely better or just a magnitude of cognitive qualities greater?

They do when corners are cut.

Indeed. Kind of like how business people that aren't mechanics can screw up the car industries.

Damn. This thing is still going?

We expect to wake up yes, but it is never promised, and we know we will succumb eventually so non-acceptance is pointless. But certainly we'd prefer to be aware of our environment and self. If we tried to stay awake to the extent that it kills us that would certainly be dedication to extending awareness and sense of self that we hope to keep.

It's an interesting time when they are essentially forced to create vaccines for Covid-19 and sell largely at cost to the government. Smart law making.

I just wonder if the incentive could ever be great enough to create more cures if only to put other pharm companies out of business.

If we are nothing more than the perpetually rotting physical I can't be sure it has any meaning. We do good, we experience good, we learn, we try to evolve. All is worthless if it all ceases when our bodies end.

Well what if the information goes in one direction? The mind to the brain to the body? We can measure the brain effects, but can't prove there isn't a power over it? What if the mind was arranged in a similar fashion as the brain except doesn't suffer physical death? It could be 1:1 relationship and remain hidden in that sense.

Dark matter and dark energy have noticeable and measurable effect, but they themselves haven't been tracked down. It often seems we learn more from the wakes than the things themselves?

Can we be sure the brain is where the mind is? A friend likes to remind me that our digestive system contains more neurons than a cat's entire brain and generally cats do ok.

What if the mind, perhaps of ethereal substance doesn't effect the physical world and therefore cannot be measured? Maybe it is essentially 0 dimensional or omnipresent and cannot be quantified? And in any event even with physical measurements we keep underestimating the electrical and chemical effects within the brain. It is yet still too subtle. But assuming the brain is a receiver as some say, but not the mind, couldn't the mind influence the brain and the brain influences the body? What if we can't measure before a thought? Tedious perhaps, but what if that ended up being the case? Physics and science can operate within limited spaces if need be?

So science doesn't necessarily collapse if the mind at least in part exists outside of the physical as we know it?

Babies respond more positively to traditionally beautiful face before a time when they presumably associate different faces with positive or negative things.

As far as evolution anyway we tend to prefer symmetry and other basic characteristics to rule out those with disease which essentially makes those uglier. It still seems beauty is largely a subjective add on judgement of our imagination while ugliness has more objective features. I don't know if a true neutral exists?

Lol. No. But certainly our reactions are stronger when they have certain more extreme qualities.

I don't think beauty contains inherent virtue.

Inconceivable!! Truly a dizzying intellect. Lol.

Some argue matter and energy have equivalency.

Unknowingly know? Like cryptomnesia?

Essentially. Lol.

Is Infinity of running around a track indefinitely differ from running straight and having road added in front of you indefinitely?

Any examples of Infinity other than the suggestion that the universe may go on forever since we can't prove otherwise?

How can you show a reality you have experienced is more real than the one most of the rest of us experience? Can you return here with information that we don't already have?

I think there were two versions. One left off the ending I think.

How? And what proof?

I appreciate the sentiment. Age research gives me hope. NAD+, senolytics, stem cells, gene therapy. The future looks somewhat bright if I live long and well enough. Apparently they regenerated the optic nerve of a mouse using 3 Yamanaka Factors. It's an amazing concept.

I heard Tilda might be in the sequel somehow.

A brain is needed for an experience, and an experience requires the brain. Full circle huh? How do we know the brain isn't the puppet that just keeps the body going? Suspend belief a little? I'm trying to not be depressed by chronic pain and disorientation all the time since my injury.

You've had multiple NDEs? Can you prove that?

Some people that study NDE claim brain activity has ceased. It really depends on what they say. They can create stuff from imagination shortly before fully waking up too. If they report information that even those in the room can't readily know that can be interesting.

Maybe I don't mean more real so much as that the current apparent reality is more of a temporary simulation and not the main show. Hopefully.

I wish NDEs were a lot more convincing. Everything described is indescribable upon them waking back up, and often excludes the 3 less spacial senses. And generally is too consistent and logical as far as what one would likely write for themselves.

There must be so much to be perceived that we can't here? It feels like my mind can take in so much more than my senses ever gave me. And frankly after 35 life hasn't felt worth it. Eyesight became damage and more recently a neck injury that makes me dizzy and confused way too much of the time that I don't feel safe. I want to believe in an afterlife and I want to believe it can be so much better than this existence. These bodies weren't built to last as long as they often do.

I assume those that mathematically try to calculate how many different worlds there are require a balance as there needs to be balances in each world.

Still unclear on how the Ancient One knew Strange would be the best of all of them despite not being able to see past her own death.

Perhaps human animals are more needy than animal animals. Animal animals don't care about money or material things, and perhaps have fewer social needs. Only their health can be taken from them. Unless maybe they're a salamander and can bounce back really well.

Lets assume only humans matter for simplicity. Can we only assume fair or deserving exists objectively if our destiny is determined by a god? If our fortunes far differ that of an apparent equal, perhaps we can only assume things will equalize after life somehow? Or in non-Christian religions a karma judgement that somehow spans between lives?

I consider the deserving of the suffering of one and the lack of suffering of the other. If suffering was the standard to all we would have no comparison and nothing to complain about, but we have the knowledge that life can be much better. And not seeing what we consider a good reason for the difference between us and others based on similar actions on our parts we ask the question of deserving and fair.