• trueself
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    How every single aspect of our being is about competition.
    Nature is full of competiion, look at how plants compete eachother.
    How animals fight and kill eachother.
    How males as well as females compete mutually.
    Sport teames compete for a gold trofee or whatever.
    Political parties compete eachother to ultimatly lead the world astray.
    Nations compete eachother all the time, America is leading the way to
    world domination, through a securetized and heavely monitored, higly competitive capitalistic
    dictatorship. Okaaay I guess that is of my chest now.
    I'm afraid the future holds only more competition for us, in it's grasp.
    Think about E.T. beings who eventually will be competing humans from earth.
    i'm theorising the fact aliens exist, which I find very likely.
    Earth vs Gragon'Qa, "watch now with paperview on your favorite channel show.
    After a matter of time this war between worlds wil grow to be a war between galaxies.
    Until only one may rule the Universe, after which a display pops up on a screen
    somewhere, saying " Well done, you have achived level two of the game ". I guess the battle between universus expand till one rules all that in the meta-universe and thereby achiving level three.
    It's as a endless ladder of levels that go on beyond the concept of beginning or end.
    Ladies and Gentleman, a moment please.........
    This existence is nothing less than a endless multplayer game! There I sad it.
    My two questions are,
    who's game are we in, and more importantly on which hardware do we run?
    It sure as hell ain't Apple!
  • Michael Ossipoff
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    [reply= "trueself;d1837"]

    That competitivenss, aggressivenss, is probably from our Chimpanzee ancestry. Fortunately we aren't all Primate. We have Pig ancestry too. There's good evidence that humans are a Chimpanzee-Pig hybrid. (Admittedly, nearly all of our pre-human ancestors were of the Chimpanzee lineage--there evidently were only one or a few pigs in our family-tree).

    By "hybrid", I'm referring to a hybridization, followed by continuing repeated "back-hybridization", in which all the offspring of successive hybrid generations mated with the same one of the two hybridizing species.

    Trans-ordinal hybridization isn't unheard of.

    Back-hybridization isn't unheard of.

    Unusual? Sure. Are humans a "usual" species?

    More can be found on the web, by googling "Are we a Chimpanzee-Pig Hybrid" (or some such question). I believe that the hybridization-specialists geneticist who makes that suggestion is named Eugene McCarthy (not to be confused with the 60s & 70s politician by that name). He has a website that goes into it at great length, and answers objections.

    In fact, maybe include his name when you google.

    My two questions are,
    who's game are we in
    trueself

    Each of us is in our own story (or game, if you prefer), of course. Who else's?

    , and more importantly on which hardware do we run?

    As I mentioned in the "Our World a Simulation?" topic, our life-experience possibility story doesn't need simulation-hardware. It's a possibility-story, and the infinitely-many possibility-stories are there already, and don't need a computer simulation.

    Computer simulation can't create a possibility-story, because the infinity of possibility-stories are already there. A computer simulation an only create an opportunity for its programmers to observe a story.

    Michael Ossipoff
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