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.

if life is defined as something fighting against entropy…

how does gravity fit into the equation?

BTW: I just want to reassure everyone that I don’t do these to appear as a wise ass.

Our entire anatomy is bent on preserving a cycle.

But I see cycles all the time, electrons spin, planets orbit, and water falls and rises.

So are those living as well?

Our preservation protocols are surely more sophisticated; many more contingencies to take on a greater variety of cycle destroyers (things that kill you)

I’ve come up for a new perception on life … just now, like… just now… 30 seconds ago (mid post)

I’m going to redefine what “life” is. It’s something attempting to preserve a cycle against an uncontrolled environment. Defining entities is important with this concept because the understanding of reductionism completely dissolves this redefinition of life. In fact, reductionism dissolves all attempts of definition (shit, that just got deep)

This new definition encompasses all things. All things are alive on different cognitive levels&perceptions, it’s all a matter of what they are living for.

To say something is dying only means it is changing its purpose.

No I’m not on drugs, I hate to sound like a mini Terrance Mckenna but… it’s true.

I could say life attempts to disassociate things; it attempts to define contrast. As you go from the cellular scope downwards you’ll see all entities do this very same thing, just less and less effectively the less diverse the system is.

Maybe we could base our moral system off of this understanding. The more intricate a system is, the more responsibility it is given. This means we give more advanced creatures more rights and if they decide to be reckless jackasses, we put the hurt down on ‘em. This also means you wont be considered a dick for eating animals, but at the same time the more advanced you are the less you’ll need primitive sources for energy (yes, I’m talking about systems extracting chemicals from the air to sustain your body… Do you see how much technology solves? Do you see why I’m so pro tech?).

Complexity is difficult to quantify, but when it comes to creatures on our future cognitive level, good&bad behaviors seem to be near digital. (well it will be once we get out of this clash of ignorant cultures)

Any highly advanced invading alien race wouldn’t need to kill us. If they came here for our resources, they aren’t much above us… In fact, if they came here for our resources, they’re probably really stupid. (you can bend space-time but you can’t convert different forms of mass to quench your needs… you could actually use the bending technology to accomplish this)

Anyways, back to working on awesome battle

Wouldn’t the better filter be to just let the earth go on about its own and see how people behaved WITHOUT the selfishness-extracting incentive of gaining eternal life?

School

Work

Ambition

There really isn’t enough time in the day.

I have a little more than a year to complete school. School is dependent upon my job. I’m not sure if my job is dependent on school. My work is at risks because our last product is failing due to new Operating System standards. The other strands we have grasped at are very weak and probably won’t support me.

School and Work take up enough time as it is. That means the ambition can’t get done. If the ambition can’t get done then my life is pointless and I’d honestly rather die right now, right here, while typing this letter. Also I don’t have  enough time for the psychologically and anatomically healthy things like having a girlfriend and doing social stuff. So my health is shot too.

If I got the ambition rolling, I’d drop school and I’d drop work ( I’ll debate my reasoning for this later. I already have actually )

This would save me a shit load of time. A shit load… A wide wide wide shit load.

I could go about the ambition on my own time rather than having to squeeze and sneak it in my schedule, and I could also do some other healthy activities.

One problem, I don’t have  any room to get the ambition STARTED!!!

I need a household that will support me and a little bit of money. The good part about that is, it won’t take long to get it started. 6 months at max.

I need to find a way to get it started even with all the stuff I have going on now. That means I have to go into robo-mode. Which I’m not good at doing.