Imagine if you understood your friend down to the edge of their reduction (or at least down to the quantum or atomic level)

Would it be difficult to see them still as an emotional attachment?

If you know too much, can your ability to emotionally attach be crippled?

I was going to write a long note on this…. about some of my views and such, but I have to work on something very important. So I’ll just bring out 1 quick point.

If we are nothing more than our components, would you care for a clone that has the same memories as your dead romantic interest?

Hopefully I said that well, but if not:
Imagine we kill your family (oh joy)
Now imagine we clone them (regenerating their full previous form) from other matter.
Are those the same people?

Believe it or not, this happens every 10 seconds (or is it minutes?) on the quantum level. Our quantum components are cycled out at LIGHTNING SPEEDS (technically faster)

I know some of you have thought about this before. The idea has been expressed in enough Science fiction that it would permeate the entire (my entire) relevant population.

Right now. My ignorance of myself and my ignorance of you is what keeps me emotionally limited.

Some don’t realize it, but this is why those may deny robots the status of “life”.
When we build a robot, we understand it; we see it breaks down to nothing more than it’s components.
When we build a friendship, we don’t fully understand it; the pool of mystery is what has been mistakenly defined as “the soul”.

Done.

In order to survive the crab has to distinguish it’s predator from the rest of the environment. Not doing this means it will get eaten. This is defining by separating the object from the environment.

In order for the crow to survive, it must know the week spot of the Cane toad. Seeking this is defining by decomposing the object into its parts.

Obviously separation is needed for decomposing. But at the same time you can say that separation is decomposing the environment as a whole. … but I digress.

The more we decompose the more we realize that the newly identified components aren’t as separate or attached as we think.

Tell me this. Where does the sun begin and end? Draw a white line around this picture defining it’s beginning and end, and then tweet it to me.

—————————————- Slight Digression —————————————-

This concept was brought up in a forum I was posting in.

These aren’t new revelations. Just things I’ve taken time to put into words.
I was actually surprised to see that in this forum poll, nearly 40% of the population denied particle physics being the engine behind our decisions, as if there were some other component to our brain aiding our thought. 13% said “I Don’t Know. This is why I’m posting some of these very fundamental ideas now, because apparently they aren’t wide spread or even thought about.