Well if you are just here to troll then you would roleplay, wouldn't you. — universeness
Tough question! I've heard this said more often than I could care to count but don't animals attack only when provoked? In other words, aggression maybe a good thing, part of our wilderness survival toolkit.
What I would suggest however is to channel that aggression into more benign activities (part of the ability model of EQ) like sports, board games like chess, you get the idea! — Agent Smith
I'm a atheist. I'm just curious why you think I'm a theist? What in what I wrote makes you think that? — Hillary
Vincent talks about worldpeace! What's wrong with that? He has a future vision where man has left his evolutionary superfluous baggage and has replaced it by the miracles of technique. It's an optimistic vision. Except maybe the WW3. — Hillary
transhumanism — universeness
see no point in exchanging viewpoints with you. I don't trust your intentions. I think you are a troll. — universeness
I see no point in exchanging viewpoints with you. I don't trust your intentions. — universeness
But I know one thing. Nobody knows the truth.
— Vincent
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a minute ag — Agent Smith
Sounds like an equal starting point for all of us then. — universeness
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for transhumanism but I feel you're expanding its scope in a way unintended by its proponents - into modifying our nature which is being done as we speak via incarceration and executions which amount to expulsion from the gene pool. In short, we're doing to ourselves what we've been doing to dogs over the past 30k years or so. While the intentions maybe honorable, the road to hell is paved with good intentions says an old adage. It may backfire is what I mean — Agent Smith
Si, we're back to square one! Snakes & Ladders. I always get eaten by the longest snake — Agent Smith
I have always been an atheist and just discovered the existence of god. I thought this forum was a place for free-thinking people to come together and exchange each other's thoughts, but apparently I'm wrong. Apparently you already know it all.
I myself never had the chance to go to school and learn anything from anyone. I had to figure everything out myself. So I'm here to learn something. I grew up with freedom of opinion. If that's not accepted here, then I won't comment anymore. I will leave you alone. I'll live my life the way I want to — Vincent
I don't know your back story Agent Smith but based on some of your postings, you are quite harsh on yourself. You don't need to put yourself down, there are plenty of nasties out there who get great pleasure out of doing that for you. You should take great pleasure every time you defeat them by not putting yourself down. Humility yes, genuine self-deprecation no f****** way!!!!!!! — universeness
control — universeness
My self-effacing manner is but an acknowledgement of genius (read Buddhas, sensu lato) past, present and future. — Agent Smith
Yep, that's something I wanted to touch upon, it slipped my mind. Isn't it better to control one's passion "apps" than to delete them altogether? Isn't a man who wanted to kill but didn't better than the man (the Buddha?) who never has murderous intentions? I dunno, the jury's still out! — Agent Smith
Please continue to post your views, you will perhaps gain a lot from the responses you receive.
Please do continue to live your life the way you want to as long as it doesn't prevent others from doing the same. — universeness
So what to think of the conjecture about mind uploading? — Haglund
To address the question asked, the answer is a firm-sounding yes. It's expected that minds gradually appear in robots, which already today can perform ingenious motion. There are robots answering autonomously. Complete autonomy as not been achieved yet but the state of the art is growing exponentially and the limit of miniaturization is still far away. We could, in principle, construct a neuron-sized micro computer and use the structure of the vacuum as memory. Imagine a three-dimensional packing of these and it becomes clear that in comparison with the brain a progression is made. Already now, the retina can be replaced by an artificial structure and the artificial heart is a fact. The paralyzed can influence computers by thought. We can upload the results of knowledge gathering and make it available for everyone, leading to new knowledge and new technology, in a mutually reinforcing dance. Etcetera, etcetera. We only have taken the first steps, still falling a lot, but the signs don't lie. And with quantum computing just born, we should not be surprised if we will have created a first artificially mind this century — Hillary
:roll:Peddling atheism and transhumanism while actually advocating for God. It's a well-known theistic tactic to accuse others of doing that, thereby strengthening the atheist cover. — Hillary
The freeze component is taken to an extrema in possums known for "rolling over and playing dead" which kinda vindicates my earlier claim that animals only attack when provoked (when they perceive a threat). — Agent Smith
I have just accepted that god exists in the form of omniscient aliens. — Vincent
Now who's a 'little bit paranoid?' — universeness
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