Mar 23 2011: i cried and learned a lot, this both shows the documentary power of media, the creative ways to see correlational data to environment and an amazing new incite! last moment is... insanely heartwarming
Mar 23 2011: I can promise you being 24 (not that much older) that when I was 18 I struggled with the same answer, and I struggled and asked. I dropped out of highschool to goto bible college and then i joined the army for a year or so and then i moved to paris and was a boehemian existentialist, now i'm living back in texas as a postmodern psychiatrist wannabe... and you know what?
thats something that I continue to ask myself, sometimes depression is merely the act of asking this question too much "why do I exist?", the more important thing though. look at all the neat stuff i got to do in between!
more importantly be excited for all the things this perernial question will drive us too, and i hope you never come up with an answer that just "solves" it. I hope youre not reading a book one and your like "yeah i guess that sums it up, our power relations to our ontological subjectivity is meaningless and communication is hopeless and life is ABSURD" and you give up, never give up. keep asking and asking and asking and asking and asking and exploring
test out whatever theories come to mind... if you really believe the world is without reason, believe it... see what happens, doesnt the world strike you as oddly cosmological? accomodate to that new data, then what? don't things seem without a justification behind them?... what then? antithesis, thesis synthesis, this is the dialectical question that changes us throughout our life
Mar 23 2011: of course tautological statements must be true, did you really prove anything? the nature of these tautological statements (2 + 2 = 4) is bullshit, thats whats under suspicion here, not the conclusions of the premises.
Mar 23 2011: but what about in a situation where man is already playing God , its too late we've alreay gotten there and man drank the god potion. now what? now its more important to discuss the ethical considerations of this new power that we already have (this isnt a potential thing, this is already happening) rather than go into talks and talks about man not needing to have this much power. ok we get it, man having this much power = young frankenstein, but lets figure out what to do with the people that, in fact, DO have the power! right? i mean TED is basically the only place where these scientists are approached in this democratic setting anyway!
the biggest problem with genetic engineering is that genes are not circuits, genes work as a whole system and cannot be reduced to "gene 23 causes depression" sense. just like the brain isn't just synapses, its mostly white matter, the second we manipulate things prior to understanding of nature's original teloscopic reason (although i realize nature is reasonless still there was a functional purpose, right?) to the coding (the genes) then we can manipulate it.
genes are nothing more than the "do this" part of our cell, when we start to change that we get great things, we get things as artificial as hydroponic pot or dogs but also things like 6 fingers and cancer.
Mar 23 2011: I woudln't be able to answer your question because the epistemological qualifiers are too rough, so let me just say "what i think", heres what i think
1. life is nothing but matter in motion
2. everything i believe say and think is based off personal experience + books
3. emotions are the underlying motivational factor behind most actions
4. virtue and power are the same thing in the ultimate sense, a study of pleasure and pain and its relationship to action.
5. character is possible to both create and discover because we have plastique minds.
6. mirror neurons allow us to simulate other peoples worlds, so communication isnt out of the blue its via simulation.
7. faces have intrinsic value, i dont know why.
8. death is unexpected, so appreciate life because its short.
9. our adaptive unconscious is more powerful than our waking conscious if we can shape it through our decision making into smooth pattern recognition.
10. we lie to ourselves.
Mar 23 2011: also I think just like any other DESIGN the design for new forms of life should come out of real-world demands. The important key to all 3 stages of evolution is that diversity was meditated by demand not exploitive invention.
Mar 23 2011: the best thing we can figure out is how to perfect nature's intentions. i'm all for epigenetics but a little sketchy on the gene therapy, its not within my lifetime to change my genes through hormones but I WILL make decisions and take other drugs.
Mar 23 2011: 35. was allah created or was he himself created? (or was 27 years in medina not enough time for God to speak through his prophet?) "well God being in his qualities eternal was surely always" "ok so by tautologically including God as a description he is thereby out of the link of casuality?"
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thats something that I continue to ask myself, sometimes depression is merely the act of asking this question too much "why do I exist?", the more important thing though. look at all the neat stuff i got to do in between!
more importantly be excited for all the things this perernial question will drive us too, and i hope you never come up with an answer that just "solves" it. I hope youre not reading a book one and your like "yeah i guess that sums it up, our power relations to our ontological subjectivity is meaningless and communication is hopeless and life is ABSURD" and you give up, never give up. keep asking and asking and asking and asking and asking and exploring
test out whatever theories come to mind... if you really believe the world is without reason, believe it... see what happens, doesnt the world strike you as oddly cosmological? accomodate to that new data, then what? don't things seem without a justification behind them?... what then? antithesis, thesis synthesis, this is the dialectical question that changes us throughout our life
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the conclusion of the premise 2 + 2 = 4 is true
the premise 2 + 2 =4 is not true.
big difference.
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http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_root_wolpe_it_s_time_to_question_bio_engineering.html?awesm=on.ted.com_Wolpe
the biggest problem with genetic engineering is that genes are not circuits, genes work as a whole system and cannot be reduced to "gene 23 causes depression" sense. just like the brain isn't just synapses, its mostly white matter, the second we manipulate things prior to understanding of nature's original teloscopic reason (although i realize nature is reasonless still there was a functional purpose, right?) to the coding (the genes) then we can manipulate it.
genes are nothing more than the "do this" part of our cell, when we start to change that we get great things, we get things as artificial as hydroponic pot or dogs but also things like 6 fingers and cancer.
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1. life is nothing but matter in motion
2. everything i believe say and think is based off personal experience + books
3. emotions are the underlying motivational factor behind most actions
4. virtue and power are the same thing in the ultimate sense, a study of pleasure and pain and its relationship to action.
5. character is possible to both create and discover because we have plastique minds.
6. mirror neurons allow us to simulate other peoples worlds, so communication isnt out of the blue its via simulation.
7. faces have intrinsic value, i dont know why.
8. death is unexpected, so appreciate life because its short.
9. our adaptive unconscious is more powerful than our waking conscious if we can shape it through our decision making into smooth pattern recognition.
10. we lie to ourselves.
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this is going to be fun