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„Do you know of any philosophy as true based on solutions or proofs?“ **
„Inserting solutions and proofs into philosophy as if it were math or science usually destroys the conversation or one must know in what sense it can be applied, its limitations in short as applied to philosophy.“ **
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„I am saying that the act of stating what heathens should do is odd. Why? Stating what all members of my group X should do is rather Abrahamic to me. Like I should tell all pagans how to live their lives and how they should struggle for freedom. LIke I can make that kind of rule. And a rule about what they should do. Which is even more resrictive than a rule about what they should not do, at least in many cases, since it compells towards a specific life.
I am not saying that being a heathen is like being a monotheist/Abrahamist.“ **
„It is that act of laying out what should be done that seems more Abrahamic than heathen to me. My objection works on the assumption that these groups are different.“ **
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„Missionaries today tend to market their ideas.“ **
| 1324 |
„Arminius wrote:
»Here comes the 4th interim balance sheet ....« ** **
„I am still a no.“ **
| 1325 |
„I posted to clear up a misrepresentation of the movie »Robocop« and I ended up in 'no'. I'm actually in the 'silly nonsense - not worth discussing' column.“ **
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„The upshot being, a criticism of anything does NOT imply a negation! One can criticize, analyze in a hundred different ways depending on »perspective« and how its discussed. It all depends on how and in what manner references are made. Is this not also one of the main functions of philosophy? as a kind of »Perspectivism« a la Nietzsche?“ **
„Taking things out of context yields nothing but distortions. Your „against“ statements are examples of that.“ **
„Why are you against linguistical and/or philosophical approaches or perhaps solutions?“ ** **
„You are against statistics, science, philosophy, and that is okay, but I also think that it is too much »against«.“ ** **
| 1329 |
„So if freedom comes back it will be via non-Abrahamic routes.“ **
| 1330 |
„Christian Philosopher often means 'politically radicalized heretic', and philosopher who happens to be a Christian tends to be a lot more grounded..“ **
| 1331 |
„But that turned out to be just too much for a small PC unless you are a serious expert programmer with the right support files (which I didn't have). So I tried for a while to see if there was a way to get the program to make video files where you could see the actual video motion, but without the video support files, the whole thing became just way, way to convoluted and slow to be of any realistic good.“ **
„I feel like Einstein having to invent and prove the oscilloscope merely to explain his relativity theory.“ **
| 1332 |
„Thanks.
I don't take the thread seriously at all.“ **
„Depends on what you mean by fun. I don't discuss werewolves, vampires or Brangelina. Unsupported claims about IQ are not fun because people believe that stuff and then vast quantities of time have to be wasted trying to correct a bunch of misinformation.“ **
„Morality and ethics is fun. Science and tech is fun when people understand it and when they twist it in a clever way.“ **
„In general, I find fun to be easier (and more enjoyable) in real life because body language and tone of voice adds so much richness to the discussion. Wittiness, irony, satire, playfulness, etc, don't work well in forums.“ **
| 1333 |
„Whatever you like! This thread no-longer holds any interest for me.“ **
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„You haven't specified any sources or statistics.“ **
„I don't take the thread seriously at all.“ **
„In general, I find fun to be easier (and more enjoyable) in real life because body language and tone of voice adds so much richness to the discussion. Wittiness, irony, satire, playfulness, etc, don't work well in forums.“ **
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„This thread no-longer holds any interest for me.“ **
„Re IQ ....“ **
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„A major event in the evolution of the human brain came when the brain achieved a certain level that allowed self-consciousness. It achieved an »I«.“ **
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„Phyllo wrote:
»Lev Muishkin wrote:
I'm in ›What a stupid meaningless question« column, and I bet so are most of the rest of ›no‹.
I posted to clear up a misrepresentation of the movie »Robocop« and I ended up in »no«. I'm actually in the »silly nonsense - not worth discussing« column.
You both appear to be in the »too naive to discuss such a subject« column.
That is absolutely right.
One could also call it the „Stupid meaningless answer“column, or the „Dsiagreement without any argument“ column, or the „I don't like this thread because I write in this thread“ column.
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„Why don't you respond to my query and we'll be done.“ **
„I ended up in »no«. I'm actually in the »silly nonsense - not worth discussing« column.“ **
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„I don't take the thread seriously at all.“ **
„Why are you writing in this thread? You don't like this thread. So why should I »respond to your query«.“ ** **
„Okay, I understand. For you, it's all about the poster and not the posts.
„I don't take the thread seriously at all.“ **
„I won't bother interacting with you again.
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„James S. Saint wrote:
»Phyllo is one of our better ›Zero credit snipers‹. He just pops in to quickly tell you that you are wrong about something (throw a stone) then darts back into the shadows, never giving credit when you are right about anything (that would require courage).« **
You complain that I come in and leave. He complains that I'm not leaving.“ **
„I don't take the thread seriously at all.“ **
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„This is SO Stupid, so desperate (B.t.w.: Your »sources« are full of egalitarian(istic) rhetoric.) that IF you are German, I feel personally disgraced.“ **
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„Arminius wrote:
»I think I have hit the nail on the head! Bingo!« ** **
You have indeed! Please accept my advice when I say you would certainly be more intelligent if you didn't do it so often!“ **
| 1344 |
„And in their most supreme arrogance they became the very architects of their own demise ....
- Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLNo4lMC8bM
- Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZGzMfg381Y
- Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOt3Lz-oPo4
- Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X0m40dBPAI“ **
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„Arminius,
There have been, and still are many who come to this site merely to attack people, not ideas. They have an excuse for not being able to distinguish toilet paper from nose tissue, people from ideas, maps from terrains, ontologies from realities, religion from science, or logic from speculation. It is largely associated with too much mother and not enough father along with serious neurological diseases throughout the West causing their heads to be too far up their asses to see the light, or distinguish shit from shinola.“ **
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„But that turned out to be just too much for a small PC unless you are a serious expert programmer with the right support files (which I didn't have). So I tried for a while to see if there was a way to get the program to make video files where you could see the actual video motion, but without the video support files, the whole thing became just way, way to convoluted and slow to be of any realistic good.
.... I was attempting that project maybe 8 months ago or so. But I never got to produce the video because of insufficient tools. I found myself going through ridiculous extremes to do the simplest of tasks involved (like having to create my own video encoder).
If I had been asked for a unified field theory during the 1980's, I would guess that it would have taken maybe 2 months to come up with the answer. But when it came to verification and demonstration, although I might have put together some software for that, I would have very probably just designed a different kind of computer processor such that the essential functions were a part of the hardware (my specialty at the time). That would have taken maybe a few weeks and produced a cube of metaspace running at least 1000 times faster. And that would allow for much greater convenience in experimenting with varied field strengths and particle behaviors. And I might have even gone the more serious route and used analog processing in critical areas, giving it probably another 1000 times faster response time (when it comes to the fundamentals involved in reality, digital is horrendously slow).
But either way, the issue would still have been one of producing visual confirmation and communication for sake of others. Producing a video of the various experiments would still have been a major issue because it isn't an issue of making a film that portrays or simulates the events, but rather a video of an emulation taking place in real time. And a video file would have been even harder to produce back then and would have slowed the processing down tremendously (tempting me to do even that part in firmware).
Interestingly, even though everything thinks in terms of how computing has advanced so much, in many ways, it has receded. That same project would probably take me years to develop and a great deal more money. Today, I feel pretty much like I am having to figure out how to build a space shuttle out of used car parts. The tools and resources don't match the need.
Arminius wrote:
»James S. Saint wrote:
›I feel like Einstein having to invent and prove the oscilloscope merely to explain his relativity theory.‹ **
But your theory is different from his theory.« ** **
That's the point. When you are revolutionizing a field, the old tools don't fit the new needs. RM:AO isn't another evolutionary step in science. It is a revolutionary restart of science. And when the theory must be proven, it often takes inventing the new tools. And that can easily take much longer and perhaps totally different talents than the theory is all about. RM:AO has very little to do with creating video encoders and advanced processors. But those things are needed as tools merely to demonstrate the much simpler theory and the greatly complex association between the theory and all of the questions that people have concerning anything new.“ **
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„The future is a slow motion train wreck and we're just edging our way always closer to it.“ **
„Here comes the text of Jethro Tull's »Locomotive Breath«:
»In the shuffling madness // Of the locomotive breath, // Runs the all-time loser, // Headlong to his death. // He feels the piston scraping - // Steam breaking on his brow - // Old Charley stole the handle and // The train won't stop going - // No way to slow down. // He sees his children jumping off // At the stations - one by one. // His woman and his best friend - // In bed and having fun. // He's crawling down the corridor // On his hands and knees - // Old Charlie stole the handle and // The train won't stop going - // No way to slow down. // He hears the silence howling - // Catches angels as they fall. // And the all-time winner // Has got him by the balls. // He picks up Gideon's Bible - // Open at page one - // (I said) God (he) stole the handle and // The train won't stop going - // No way to slow down.«“ ** **
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„If all else fails hopefully the imposed physical limitations of nature will put an end to humanity's collective madness.“ **
See global peak energy for reference on that.
„I think human beings are best subservient living under nature instead of trying to dominate it.“ **
„No matter what happens a lot of people are going to die. It's necessary and unavoidable.“ **
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„Arminius wrote:
»The appropriate computer were missing ›during the 1980's‹ and the matching videos were missing ›8 months ago or so‹. Is that right?« ** **
The point was that in 1979-80, I designed the fastest, low power, low cost 32 bit processor in the world, using techniques that were unheard of at that time. Later I found those same ideas being put in high speed 32 and 64 bit micro-processors (not that they stole them from me because I'm sure they were bright enough to think of such things themselves). I was an intelligence designer and throwing together a new type of processor was nothing to me, just about could do it in my sleep. So when I needed something to be fast, I would just design it into the hardware, making it a 1000 times faster than using software for the same task. And I had the contacts and resources at that time to build just about anything. The issue was that no one had asked me anything about a unified field theory for physics, so like most younger guys, when I wasn't drifting around, I was getting tossed around. The shadow government was taking over in my area so businesses were popping up and failing rather regularly.
Then in the mid to late 80's, I could see how to cause a processor system to become just as emotional as any person. And after thinking about that for a while, it dawned on me that the whole trend to make computers so smart, was a really bad idea. The smarter we made machines, the dumber we made people. So by the early 90's I was switching from computer intelligence over to human intelligence. And then retired around 1995.
It wasn't until around 2004 or so that I thought about the fundamental properties of physical existence. Now and then I would put a little more thought into it and just a few years ago, I decided to play with trying to get a computer to emulate the fundamental properties. That wasn't easy to do because digital computers just don't get along with analog reality and science and math were designed around a different understanding anyway. But eventually I figured a way to use a small single-bit processor and my little PC to generate those first pics above.
Then I developed things a little more and realized that I really had a true unified field theory and even more, a »Grand Unified Theory« because the fundamental principles of reality actually apply to literally all things, without exception as long as it is done right. That is when I developed Rational Metaphysics and also Affectance Ontology and became a »metaphysicist«.
But where I am at now is without any resources or energy to do what I used to do and passing the understanding on to someone else is more important than having a computer model for it. But even to do that, requires communication and video does that with this kind of thing a lot better than words. And right now, I don't have the proper video support files with which to generate good videos showing the details that need to be seen in order to show all of the connections between RM:AO and contemporary physics.
To me, RM:AO is beyond being merely a theory, because not only do I understand the logic, but have seen the computer demonstration for very many complicated results and also have allowed people to try to come up with any possible flaw in the logic and no one has. There is really nothing left to guess about because it is all about necessary logic, not derived from presumption or observation, but pure logic.
So online, I can talk about it, but until someone can see the program and results for themselves, they can't know without question how real it is. Even with a video, someone can fake it. I am really not interested in anyone merely taking my word for anything (despite the accusations). I don't even talk to those kind of people. I am interested in people who have enough confidence in themselves and can follow the logic, scrutinizing every detail. I am not the »Cult Leader« that people like to accuse me of being. Although RM really is a revolution in science and thus would actually lead to a new culture of thinking (»cult« is just short for »culture«). If people don't change to it, the androids will. And I know that they will (I know how they think). They are designed to be smarter than people even though currently programmed with merely contemporary science ideas. The androids will learn and leave people far behind really quickly.
So the most important thing at this point is to relay to someone of a logical mind and serious self-confidence, every detail concerning the fundamental understanding and its significance. Videos would help with that a lot, but they are not the objective in themselves. The point is to get RM:AO understood very thoroughly. It IS the future science. As Neo said in The Matrix film, »I don't know the future. I did not come here to tell you how this is all going to end. I came here to tell you how it is going to begin.« None of the world's problems right now are actually necessary. Not one. Not terrorism, economics, disease, radiation, not even the problem of having no problems.
Arminius wrote:
»Creating Video encoders and advanced processors are indeed needed as tools ›to demonstrate the much simpler theory and the greatly complex association between the theory and all of the questions that people have concerning anything new‹.« ** **
The videos are only needed for communication. Advanced processors are not so much needed, but a larger system is. To emulate an orbiting electron, from only the fundamentals, requires a huge amount of memory. Once that demonstration is made, much smaller models can be made to replace already known clustered activities within the metaspace (greatly reducing the required memory). At that point, larger molecules can be formed that necessarily behave exactly as any real molecule. And I don't even have to know how the molecule is supposed to behave. The system would show me. After that, all of Chemistry is just an issue of pushing a few buttons. No chemical labs. No billion dollar particle colliders. Thousands of dollars replace billions of dollars.“ **
Arminius wrote:
»If so, how can you or we overcome that dilemma?« ** **
Got any suggestions?
„My theory is that in our universe bodies move in a spiral-cyclical way.
The orbits of both moons around their planets and the planets around their stars, and even the stars around their galactic center clearly do not describe circles or ellipses, but spirals. For example, while our Sun spirally orbits the center of our galaxy, the Earth spirally orbits the sun, and our Moon spirally orbits the Earth. For bodies that move around bodies, which also move around bodies, do not move two-, but three-dimensionally. They move spirally and thus also cyclically, more precisely said: in a spiral-cyclical way. If something moves around a body or a point which does not move around another body or point and is not moved in a different way by external forces, then (and only then) can this (and only this) motion be two-dimensional.“ ** **
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„My whole (natural and cultural) theory is based on spiral-cyclic motions - almost all developments, thus also evolution and history.“ ** **
1350
„From the perspective of a management android, humans are merely in the way, and a serious risk.“ **
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„Others have hinted at the same thing--machines cannot be self aware in the human sense of self-awareness. This does not indicate that I see all forms of awareness as human. You are sounding like Lev.
Can machines experience free will?“ **
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„People make the mistake of thinking what Stalin, Lenin and Mao for example was communism, whereas it had little or no reality to what Marx wrote. Communism was a means for these people to gain power which was the goal, not communism. They justified their actions via communism but the truth was they were greedy power hungry murderers.“ **
„This is why I say, Marxism has never been put into action anywhere in the world because it hadn't. What we saw in the 20th century was Stalinism, Leninism, Maoism and those systems had no interest in anything but power. So today when people say, »Communism has failed«they are referring to something other then what Marx envision and wrote about.“ **
„Because Marx believed and wrote about a system that was a bottom up system which means the power came from the bottom
up. In Stalinism, Leninism and Mao the system was top down, the power came from the top then went down.“ **
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„Is not God responsible for all the horrors of humanity also?“ **
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„Phyllo wrote:
»I'm happy that have found a confident and unafraid Arminius to talk with. May he give you much credit in the future.« **
„Sorry, that was a hilarious typo.
Should have read:
I'm happy that you have found a confident and unafraid Arminius to talk with.I'm not even talking to Arminius any more.“ **
„Ever heard the phrase, »Freudian slip«?
Actually I already figured that you really meant something different. I wasn't sure what, but what you said didn't fit your PROFILE at all (I hate profilers, btw).
And I'm not putting stock in Arminius agreeing or being confident enough for my taste. As you SHOULD know by now, I don't accept anything but absolute certainty backup by reasoning. Of course you DON'T know that, but let's not continue as to why.
The greater point is as Arminius pointed out;
YOU and LEV AREN'T INTERESTED in this topic so why bother with derailing it?“ **
I asked for the evidence which supports an assertion that he made in this thread. That's not derailing.
Then he got all presumptuous and defensive and derailed his own thread.
Over to you OP.
Will machines completely replace all human beings?
Action!“ **
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„Perhaps think of it this way, »Would an android hire a human?«
Currently people are thinking in terms of androids doing small mundane tasks, »pick up this, move that, ....« But it is only natural that such tasks become far more complex, »build a swimming pool in my yard«, »repair my car«, »repave my driveway«.
If an android is tasked to build a house or a swimming pool, it isn't likely to do all of the labor itself, but rather utilize a team, especially if speed is an issue. So it contracts available subservient droids.
Would it dare trust any part of the labor or design details to a human? Why risk that?
»Repave the highway from Florida to Los Angeles.« Hire humans???? Hell no (federal ordinance).
»Build a building in downtown Chicago.« Hire humans???? Hell no (city ordinance).The extremely wealthy don't need an android to do mundane tasks, but rather the greater more sophisticated tasks. Why would they hire humans either?
From the perspective of a management android, humans are merely in the way, and a serious risk.“ **
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„Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fnVtz_lc“ **
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„Arminius wrote:
»A brainteaser: Who knows these nice guys?« ** **
Ah cum-on... that's far too easy - am I giving away how long I've been here? Oops!“ **
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Tyler, moral relativity is deadly. Living on the edge in Germany may not mean the same in the US of A. I have lived in Germany in the sixties, and was on the high of bicycling through the Black Forest, and meeting my friends in the bar in the evening, with a terrible case of weltschmertz, which i retained to the present day. A draft was 25 pfenning, i lived in Lintz, in a slager, and my best friend was a guy from rome, and another guy from Australia. In the morning i went to my job in a fabrique, where all i did was taking a mallet and trying to dislodge it from pipes, where the pipes leaked out liqiuid glue? I did not know what i was doing , but my German friends had a car and drove into Dusseldorf on weekends. But had to take the train back on Sunday night.
Since i am one half Swabian, i figured i'd fit in, but my friend kept referring to mutti, amd i felt kind of out of it.
There is no economic collapse, there is only the collapse of myself, gtrying to project a state, where i will find brothers as bad off as i am, and for that here i am , when i told You, i want to relate to You i didn't do it entirely from an altruistic point of view, i see myself as You, say thirty years ago. Total angst, total playacting. That i have developed alternate personalities to deal with it, mo one can blame me for, but by and by, my authenticity gleams through, and i a comfortable with playing wittgenstein like games. It is dreadful here, granted, but i knew FRIEND IN GERMANY, WHO FLIPPED , and had to be re-patriated. I think, Snowden may not be at all comfortable in his new surroundings, i suspect. Plese take care of Your self, and adhere to Your most basic instincts of survival. as always, obe.“ **
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„Well, i will try.“ **
„Well, i will try. However, i have an inkling, that You guys have a pretty good idea of the U.S. Situation ....“ **
„..., as it's fairly obvious from world reporting on the late great recession, the plight of returning veterans who find themselves having to wait inordinately for referrals to specialists to treat their maladies, of gi's living on the streets near VA hospitals, strung out on dope, not able to return to civilian life. Other things: the air here is not at all like the sixties, to give You an example, when i came to live here, gasoline cost per gallon was 15 cents, now it's almost $5. A pack of cigs was 25c, now it's $5. First class stamps were 4c now they are 50c. The same with rents and food.
The suicide rate in the military is very much larger then before, and there is a foreboding of valuelessness as purchase price of products rise, along with the cost of living.
Don't get me wrong, only segments of the populations feel this downward trend, while the upper middle class has no apparent problems with any of it.“ **
„As far as my take on living in the USA, it is anchored in a sense of high resiliency of the population, much like Henry Miller describes it in his novel "air conditioned nightmare. Still, people are able to live the mix,of ghettos and areas of great wealth coexisting in a geographical no man's land, and everybody tries to live under the idea of a 'classless' society. In a sense it is classless, and that too, is a catch 22, where that idea, also suffers when economic markers lower the bar, where social interactions at times painfully drag on the cheering thoughts of personal freedoms.
The collapse is nought, i don't quite see that, but what i see, is more of the same, the hidden downtrodden, the homeless ghettos, the high rate of crime, etc., it implies a societal chaos, that the US population can absorb.
Recently, there has been a sharp upsurge of child molestation among educators, and this is a veery sign of moral decay.
The way i see it, if it wasn't for the laxity of morality, (after all isn't Sweden a good model for it?), dissent and societal unhappiness would not have the safety valve of releasing at least on Freudian truth, of civilization's discontents.“ **
„Perhaps absolute, new world order Capitalism will solve all the insidiousness, and the word is out on that.“ **
„I feel my answer to Your query may be sort of disjointed, in fact i know it is, but the reason for it is, that the issues and problems parleyed are not reducible to formulas of only a few variables. This country, is, now, i feel, one of the least understood social systems on earth, minus Great Britain, with which it has a historically close relationship.“ **
„The EU, adopting many of the same platforms, is far more sensitive to the inherent changes of cultural and ethnographic effects, but cross cultural dynamics, related to the flow of peoples and capital, make it not only a US situation.
It will turn out well in the end, but there will be cataclysms of major proportions, as the changes create ripple effects, cumulatively effecting the world over.“ **
„The US has enjoyed 50+ yeas of unparalleled post world war economic superiority, and the sad fact is, a well fed middle class, taking such prosperity pretty much for granted, would not stand a chance of survival, was it not for the international corporations sustaining, as of yet a positive cash flow toward the United States, and Great Britain and the EU.
The new world order is as ideologically necessary in today's world, as Marxism seemed to fit the bill, prior to the great ideological showdown, which brought in the World War. In that time, it appeared, as if Capitalism was a dying institution. History proved itself otherwise, and it is to Communism that distinction went to. It was a Hundred Years' War, of ideological conflict, and what we are seeing and feeling in the world today, are the sparks shooting out of the dying embers of ideology. This is what the end of history signifies, there are no credible cognitive markers, which can be used, as tools, to unearth, 'The Truth' of what the basic formula requires. Pragmatism has definitely won out worldwide over all forms of idealism, excepting art.“ **
„So as bad as things are in the Western World, it is more stable then at anytime in the history of the world, and as new emerging markets get progressively involved in a new world trade, we, who appear in a decline, have to grin and bear it, hoping for a turn for the better.
That much for the social/economic markers.
It would be preposterous, and naive of me to not notice the psychosocial objects left hanging, as the genius of utilitarianism is always to point to the futility of such an abstract yet naive way to describe a situation, where it can just as equally be pointed out, that it is not the 'system's fault but those singular individuals' who decide to construe a point of view, predicated on the simple
notion of directing fault outside their orbit of reference.Art has retained this freedom of expression, an absolute reminder that the 2nd amendment is alive and well, but there are a lot of starving , disheartened artists out there, with or without a portfolio, to whom life as art, best describes their being, and soul.“ **
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„Well, i will try.“ **
„Well, i will try. However, i have an inkling, that You guys have a pretty good idea of the U.S. Situation ....“ **
„..., as it's fairly obvious from world reporting on the late great recession, the plight of returning veterans who find themselves having to wait inordinately for referrals to specialists to treat their maladies, of gi's living on the streets near VA hospitals, strung out on dope, not able to return to civilian life. Other things: the air here is not at all like the sixties, to give You an example, when i came to live here, gasoline cost per gallon was 15 cents, now it's almost $5. A pack of cigs was 25c, now it's $5. First class stamps were 4c now they are 50c. The same with rents and food.
The suicide rate in the military is very much larger then before, and there is a foreboding of valuelessness as purchase price of products rise, along with the cost of living.
Don't get me wrong, only segments of the populations feel this downward trend, while the upper middle class has no apparent problems with any of it.“ **
„As far as my take on living in the USA, it is anchored in a sense of high resiliency of the population, much like Henry Miller describes it in his novel "air conditioned nightmare. Still, people are able to live the mix,of ghettos and areas of great wealth coexisting in a geographical no man's land, and everybody tries to live under the idea of a 'classless' society. In a sense it is classless, and that too, is a catch 22, where that idea, also suffers when economic markers lower the bar, where social interactions at times painfully drag on the cheering thoughts of personal freedoms.
The collapse is nought, i don't quite see that, but what i see, is more of the same, the hidden downtrodden, the homeless ghettos, the high rate of crime, etc., it implies a societal chaos, that the US population can absorb.
Recently, there has been a sharp upsurge of child molestation among educators, and this is a veery sign of moral decay.
The way i see it, if it wasn't for the laxity of morality, (after all isn't Sweden a good model for it?), dissent and societal unhappiness would not have the safety valve of releasing at least on Freudian truth, of civilization's discontents.“ **
„Perhaps absolute, new world order Capitalism will solve all the insidiousness, and the word is out on that.“ **
„I feel my answer to Your query may be sort of disjointed, in fact i know it is, but the reason for it is, that the issues and problems parleyed are not reducible to formulas of only a few variables. This country, is, now, i feel, one of the least understood social systems on earth, minus Great Britain, with which it has a historically close relationship.“ **
„The EU, adopting many of the same platforms, is far more sensitive to the inherent changes of cultural and ethnographic effects, but cross cultural dynamics, related to the flow of peoples and capital, make it not only a US situation.
It will turn out well in the end, but there will be cataclysms of major proportions, as the changes create ripple effects, cumulatively effecting the world over.“ **
„The US has enjoyed 50+ yeas of unparalleled post world war economic superiority, and the sad fact is, a well fed middle class, taking such prosperity pretty much for granted, would not stand a chance of survival, was it not for the international corporations sustaining, as of yet a positive cash flow toward the United States, and Great Britain and the EU.
The new world order is as ideologically necessary in today's world, as Marxism seemed to fit the bill, prior to the great ideological showdown, which brought in the World War. In that time, it appeared, as if Capitalism was a dying institution. History proved itself otherwise, and it is to Communism that distinction went to. It was a Hundred Years' War, of ideological conflict, and what we are seeing and feeling in the world today, are the sparks shooting out of the dying embers of ideology. This is what the end of history signifies, there are no credible cognitive markers, which can be used, as tools, to unearth, 'The Truth' of what the basic formula requires. Pragmatism has definitely won out worldwide over all forms of idealism, excepting art.“ **
„So as bad as things are in the Western World, it is more stable then at anytime in the history of the world, and as new emerging markets get progressively involved in a new world trade, we, who appear in a decline, have to grin and bear it, hoping for a turn for the better.
That much for the social/economic markers.
It would be preposterous, and naive of me to not notice the psychosocial objects left hanging, as the genius of utilitarianism is always to point to the futility of such an abstract yet naive way to describe a situation, where it can just as equally be pointed out, that it is not the 'system's fault but those singular individuals' who decide to construe a point of view, predicated on the simple
notion of directing fault outside their orbit of reference.Art has retained this freedom of expression, an absolute reminder that the 2nd amendment is alive and well, but there are a lot of starving , disheartened artists out there, with or without a portfolio, to whom life as art, best describes their being, and soul.“ **
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„Arminius,
Are there machines, then, who know »relative« free will?“ **
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„Arminius wrote:
„What would you do, if an android hires andriods but not you because you are a risk and in the way?« ** **
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„A »heathen« may draw his motivation for a good conduct in honoring his ancestry ....
To not engage in actions that would shame his name.
To love his parents and grandparents and those that came before so that he wishes to make them proud.
To have self pride and self love from belonging to this lineage/culture, and to wish to preserve it.
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„Despite all of the books on the subject, that actually translates as »Thing as such«.“ **
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„Nice. Flowers?“ **
„I wonder what Mags J.'s award would have been.“ **
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„??? "By whom"???
I don't understand the question.“ **
„And yes, machines experience »relatively-free will«.“ **
„Others have hinted at the same thing--machines cannot be self aware in the human sense of self-awareness. This does not indicate that I see all forms of awareness as human. ....
Can machines experience free will?“ **
„Arminius,
Are there machines, then, who know »relative« free will?“ **
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„What's a »begriffener«??“ **
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„The determinist and the religionist are the same person. The priest and the scientist are the same person.“ **
„By attending to the actual fundamental cause of all things, one has a greater number of choices (from which they can succeed) than otherwise. Thus they say that God yields more free-will. The more Man knows of the cause of all things, the greater he becomes at accomplishing anything he chooses. Since he is basically insane, he chooses to enhance his insanity, making it stronger and unstoppable, through technological tools.
So we have the priests, the scientists, and with them we have the increase of illusions and insanity, and at last the products of that all: a high "human civilisation" with its technologie / technique, amongst other things more and more machines and the high probability that they will replace all human beings.“ **
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„That's me of course. The masked avenger.
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„Just wait until you see what I am going to do for Halloween.
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„Current world population is seven billion people and growing.
When the collapse of technological industrial society begins I imagine we will see about six billion people dead after all is said and done.
In 1802 the world reached a population of one billion milestone. After the collapse of technological industrial society human global population will probably normalize within natural equilibrium around a billion or less.
Six billion people dead upon the collapse of technological industrial society.....that's a lot of dead people. I don't think we have enough coffins to put them in.
Where are we going to put them all?“ **
„Let nature consume them.“ **
„Kriswest wrote:
»Let nature consume them.« **
Consume whom?“ **
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„What brings the greatest freedom ever achieved is, in effect, going through monotheism, beyond it. If you were to totally destroy it, it would merely come back again, and probably with a vengeance.
The actual problem with monotheism that inhibits freedom is the presumption of socialism = reaching for too much control over too much and too many. What yields more power, leads to too much power. That is the state that Man finds himself in over and over.
By »working through monotheism«, one discovers cooperative distribution of wealth of power. At that point, there is never too much power because the wealth is never concentrated. The concentration of the wealth is the foundation of »too much«.“ **
„Heathenism merely breaks up power into chaos, reducing the total power and thus allowing for certain freedoms if there had been too much, but also taking away productive power and thus reducing opportunities and thus reducing freedoms. So yes, certain freedoms would return through heathenism. But certain freedoms would also be removed.
Much like Science, the real answers are beyond the current mindset. Merely removing the current accomplishes nothing but temporary chaos while a different regime takes over and reestablishes the same ole story but with new weapons added to ensure that it cannot be defeated again.
Thus in the long run, heathenism brings less freedom, not more because what didn't completely kill it, made it stronger.“ **
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„I guess I didn't understand her. Will nature »consume« biology or its artifacts--technology?“ **
„Kriswest wrote:
»Let nature consume them.« **
Consume whom?“ **
„Six billion people dead upon the collapse of technological industrial society.....that's a lot of dead people. I don't think we have enough coffins to put them in.
Where are we going to put them all?“ **
„Let nature consume them.“ **
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„I have Joker (Laughing Man; HB) on ignore“ **
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„Arminius wrote:
»James, would you say that your theory is more holistic or more reductionistic?« ** **
Emmm ..., no.“ **
„Actually, I have a little trouble discerning what people mean when they use those terms.
And my »theory« is more than merely »a theory«. RM:AO is first an ontology that leaves no option but to be true (feel free to take that as a challenge). But more than that, it happens to necessarily include ALL fields of science, religion, governance, psychology, economics, or whatever. If it is real, RM:AO covers it. In that sense, it can be said to be »holy« (from being »whole« and flawless). But is that really what they mean when they say,»holistic«?
Yes, it deals with »the whole« as well as any portion, so technically, it is »holistic«. But it also explains the inner details of the greater existence, so in that sense, it is »reductionistic«.
I just say that RM:AO is rationally incontrovertible.“ **
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„It's worth noting that Fukuyama has abandoned and rejected his position since.“ **
„I don't see China as moving towards liberal democracy, politically or culturally. While they're growing in power, history is alive and well. In addition (related to your other thread) mechanisation/posthumanism is maybe a longer term challenge that will keep history alive. History will always be interesting while there is change and uncertainty. I think there will most likely always be change and uncertainty.“ **
I define »history« as a »cultural evolution«. All »archivable artifacts« belong to history. So e.g. padded dinosaurs in a museum belong to history because they are archived artifacts, although dinosaurs themselves belong to eveolution-without-history because they did not archive artifacts, they did not have any history. Even human beings had not had any history for the most time of their existence. But they have been having story (here »story« means only »telling story«, »told story«, etc.) since they began to speak. So »story« as a »oral tradition« (tale and so on) does not belong to history.
Do you agree with that definition? If yes, then we can think about the »Eloi« as an example for humans without history in the future, can't we? The question in this thread is not, whether humans will have story in their future or not, but the question in this thread is, whether humans will have history in their future or not.
Why am I saying that? Because we should not confuse history with any development, for example with the natural development or with the natural evolution. History is cultural evolution. Archivable artifacts belong to history, and history belongs to evolution, and evolution belongs to development in nature. So history is embedded in evolution and in natural development, while evolution is only embedded in natural development. All events are based on natural (physico-chemical) development. Evolution is based on natural (physico-chemical) development. History is based on natural (physico-chemical) development and on (biological) evolution, history is defined as a cultural evolution. Story - as I define it (cp. above) - is also defined as a cultural evolution, but in contrast to history story contains no archivable artifact (except all kinds of an engineered story like an audiotape and so on). Story in this text and context means merely oral tales or oral narratives - not more.
So if we are asking in this thread, whether history ended or not, ends or not, will end or will not, then we are always asking, whether cultural evolution ended or not, ends or not, will end or will not, whether the relation between human beings and archivable artifacts ended or not, ends or not, will end or will not.
The „house of development“:
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|______ Development ______|History is merely the „roof“ of the „house of development“.
Arminius wrote:
»The ›end of history‹ means the end of all great narratives, of all great stories, of all ›historical existence‹ (Ernst Nolte), of all culture, of all great wars, and so on.« ** **
End of history or not, end of historical existence or not - that's the question of this thread.“ ** **
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„I'm a firm believer in global peak oil and energy. It's only a matter of time until the wheels spin off of technological industrial society.
When this happens never again will humanity experience such a technological industrial society ever again.
We will be forced into what I like to describe as permanent 18th century living standards.“ **
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„ISIS is Taliban 2.0. A US-created force to annoy Russia and Iran and keep the Middle East in chaos so that current UN/US policies can not be challenged. At least everything points to this; their logistic capacities, their technological skills and equipment, very notably the production value and style of their videos (that's top of the line American craft, no other nation produces that quality even in expensive tv productions), the name naturally (The Egyptian pantheon being the subject of the dollar bill and the architecture of DC) but most importantly, the powers that suffer most from this new violence.
If ISIS weren't created by the US, it would certainly be a fortunate coincidence. The shiites are fucked, Assad is fucked, Putin is at the very least disturbed, and the chances of muslims organizing in a somewhat rational manner is virtually nil.The western powers understand Islam all too well, much better than muslims understand it. For starters, they understand that people with no education except Mosque-education are the easiest people in the world to manipulate. It's the easiest thing in the world to have them fight against their own interests, or against the interests of anyone in their direct environment.
As long as people believe in Allah they deserve to be enslaved. It's just sad for brighter humans who live nearby them.“ **
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„My theory is that in our universe bodies move in a spiral-cyclical way.
The orbits of both moons around their planets and the planets around their stars, and even the stars around their galactic center clearly do not describe circles or ellipses, but spirals. For example, while our Sun spirally orbits the center of our galaxy, the Earth spirally orbits the sun, and our Moon spirally orbits the Earth. For bodies that move around bodies, which also move around bodies, do not move two-, but three-dimensionally. They move spirally and thus also cyclically, more precisely said: in a spiral-cyclical way. If something moves around a body or a point which does not move around another body or point and is not moved in a different way by external forces, then (and only then) can this (and only this) motion be two-dimensional.“ ** **
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„My whole (natural and cultural) theory is based on spiral-cyclic motions - almost all developments, thus also evolution and history.“ ** **
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