In transhuman space there are many realities, an open mind will tell you so.
We go together to prepare the way.
We are encased in the amber of our own experience.
I consider myself to be self-aware because there is a persistent and familiar pattern of thought and emotional experience that I think of as myself. That is also my best understanding of consciousness.
Oh Absalom, my Absalom
Within your cruel multiverse
Scientists sing in fear
Beholden to no God are they
Oh Absalom, my Absalom
Behind your literate babel
Philosophers chime the liturgy
Beholden to no One are they
Oh Absalom, my Absalom
Above your staccato bytes
Mathematicians paint the score
Creating the Next are they
What spark is this
This life, this consciousness
The people ask
Who is there to hear?
Short form:
"Can consciousness could be wholly described in physical terms, such as the aggregation of neural processes in the brain?
Yes or No "
My answer: We don't know, and we may never know.
More importantly, do we need to know to decide whether the reduction of unnecessary suffering for all sapients and sentients is a direction we should go.
Off topic interlude:
If we could see them, what color would gamma rays be.
Interlude finis.
The #twitterverse #mindmeld begins #thesingularity
What we are, what the world is, what the cosmos is, those are the things we have to work with.
What we aspire to as a species, as a sentient, as a lifeform, those are the things that give us hope and purpose.
"When I was a teenager, I wished for world peace, but now I yearn for a world in which competing ideologies are kept in balance, systems of accountability keep us all from getting away with too much, and fewer people believe that righteous ends justify violent means." - Jonathan Haidt
"An injury to one is an injury to all" - Industrial Workers of the World)
"The only path to a sustainable future on Earth is with individuals who are free, responsible, concerned with greater good for all, and willing to put those needs ahead of personal aggrandizement."
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
"One is one's own refuge, who else could be the refuge?" - Siddhartha Gotama (563 BC - 483 BC)
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you." Nicholas Klein
War does not determine who is right, only who is left - Bertrand Russell, English Logician and Philosopher 1872-1970
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire
"Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness." - Kant
"There are no facts, only interpretations. " - Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche
God reveals himself to each as he can understand him, then lifts him up. - JLC 1965 -
Humankind is called to a third covenant. The powers to destroy ourselves, our planet To modify our own physical selves are a test of our worthiness. (transmission from the Creator of All Things)
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. -
Blaise Pascal
Hatred does not cease in this world by hating, but by not hating; this is an eternal truth. - Buddha (563 BC - 483 BC),
The Dhammapada
In understanding the nature of the divine, the mistake most often made is to attempt to define the infinite.
Whether to accept the emptiness
Or to shout into it
Will the echo bring the avalanche
Or sonic information
One choice per person
No refunds, no returns
Navigator Prime