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The value of humanity & intellect
    #26703181 - 05/29/20 01:33 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I cant decide whether or not we're beneficial to the universe as a species.
On one hand we've fucked up the earth so bad it's like we're a bunch of parasites, and now we're even looking for new planets to invade.
But on the other hand we might well be the most intelligent life in the universe, so maybe its acceptable that we had to deplete Earth as a resource in order to evolve.

I asked my dad if he could be God and end humanity, would he? He said of course not cause we're too intelligent to just kill off.

But what's even the point of intellect? Smart people are boring and depressed for the most part anyways. Unless we get smart enough to escape the simulation we're in it seems kind of pointless doesnt it?

Every time I take mushrooms I look at my hands, my feet, and I just think "fuck, what am I? a dog? a fish? a monkey?" It feels so unnatural to be intelligent, and I want to just ignore that feeling and move on, but every trip it comes back and makes me wonder.

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: deniskov] * 1
    #26703201 - 05/29/20 01:50 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Well, We are here aren’t we? 

You could ask the same question of any species that exists, or ever has existed, or ever will.
Non escape the mark of impermanence - so are they really necessary then?  I would say yes.  In the grand scheme of things were just babies (I’m terms of length of time on earth in our current form).  To erase us from existence in a flash, may be what happens, but another possibility is that we are necessary for the next iteration of evolution.  Prematurely annihilating humanity would then leave that stone forever unturned.  Plus, all things considered - I think the good and the bad balance out.  Ala - The unity of opposites.

We can display both aspects of parasitism & mutualism.  And the other forms of life we live with do the same.  If we were not the top of the food chain, something else would be.  Ex. Another evolved hominid that was the runner up perhaps - who is to say if they had gotten the better of
Us and survived , that things would be any better or worse?  Rather than just the same but different?

One can choose to let the mind’s faculties grow dull (like the intellect, or memory, etc) or you can develop them, hone/sharpen them, explore their limits and usefulness & it’s aid in creative endeavors, and survival.

Everyone has got it, but as you can see - not everyone has found a way to make it best serve themselves or others. 
Almost makes it seem like a Failure of the imagination is a crime.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26703239 - 05/29/20 02:09 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Humans are likely to cure any problem they have with technology..

Given enough time

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #26703477 - 05/29/20 04:40 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

we have the capacity to take care of the natural world around us and each other - to make improvements, and to maintain through seasons and disasters. some animals help us, some technology helps us, and some of us get in the way of doing good work, so we get organized around that.

the next 30 years of green energy, and hopefully of free education and other social support could make a big difference in our outlook.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: deniskov]
    #26705443 - 05/29/20 06:45 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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deniskov said:
Unless we get smart enough to escape the simulation we're in it seems kind of pointless doesnt it?




Maybe it's not intelligence we need to escape this simulation?

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deniskov said:
"fuck, what am I?




Maybe it's the answer to this question.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: Forrester]
    #26705453 - 05/29/20 06:48 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Stewardship of the natural world is highly underrated


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: Forrester]
    #26705827 - 05/29/20 09:31 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

It seems to me the only progress we're making is intellectual... everything else, religion, spirituality, has pretty much stood still.
If we don't have the answer today and it isn't attained through intellectual advancement, how can it ever be?

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: deniskov]
    #26705973 - 05/29/20 10:42 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Because the future is uncertain.. we therefore have allot of freedom in determining our course set destiny..

Just because we don't understand something now.. doesn't necessarily mean we can't in future have a grip.. a solid understanding of something..

In this case saving the Earth and upgrading our moral utility..

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: BrendanFlock] * 1
    #26706622 - 05/30/20 08:05 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Well our measurement of intelligence is somewhat biased towards humans. For all we know, some whales may have far more CPU power than us, which they could use in ways we may not think to measure.

I'd also wonder if our so-called intellect isn't just hubris. Sure, we are great at making tools, but what would happen if a more advanced alien race found us, but... might not even want to bother trying to communicate with us because we are proportionately so dumb. Would we try to talk to ants?

(OK, maybe some of us have tried talking to ants)

If the singularity happens, and artificial intelligence robots take over the world and enslave humanity, as the A.I. doubles its own intelligence every 90 days, and after hundreds of years of this, would our robot masters want to keep us around due to our intelligence? Or would they view us as ants?


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: Moses_Davidson]
    #26706626 - 05/30/20 08:08 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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but what would happen if a more advanced alien race found us, but... might not even want to bother trying to communicate with us because we are proportionately so dumb.




There are many books of channeled material that say this is precisely the case, but I suppose that's a whole different topic :lol:


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: Moses_Davidson]
    #26707137 - 05/30/20 01:19 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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what would happen if a more advanced alien race found us, but... might not even want to bother trying to communicate with us because we are proportionately so dumb. Would we try to talk to ants?




That's an interesting point. We might not talk to ants, but we still interact with them. Kids squish them, pick them up, destroy anthills, feed them, so I'm pretty sure ants know about our existence as another living being, despite never communicating with us. If there were aliens significantly more intelligent than us, wouldn't they send some sort of sign? Just as a "hey, look, we're out here" kind of thing?

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: deniskov]
    #26707200 - 05/30/20 01:53 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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If there were aliens significantly more intelligent than us, wouldn't they send some sort of sign? Just as a "hey, look, we're out here" kind of thing?




Imagine though that the aliens are far more advanced than us, and given our destructive nature and propensity towards fear, choose not to let their presence be known lest it cause us more harm than they wish to.  I mean it's possible.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: Forrester]
    #26707210 - 05/30/20 01:57 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Reminds me of the prime directive from Star Trek.  Or how bio experts, when working in the field, handle themselves by a certain code of conduct when studying a community of wild animals. As Hands off as possible, leaving of a little as footprint as possible, non-interference with the natural order of their community & state of affairs etc.  Basically trying to be as invisible as possible.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: Moses_Davidson] * 1
    #26707742 - 05/30/20 06:53 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

Regarding AI as malevolent I must say.. a monitoring system with the possibility to truncate any bad, evil, or damaged code.. is a way to save us..

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #26708500 - 05/31/20 05:32 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Regarding AI as malevolent I must say.. a monitoring system with the possibility to truncate any bad, evil, or damaged code.. is a way to save us..



so you want an ai to determine if you are evil or not, thereby putting it on the judge's bench above us.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: The Blind Ass]
    #26708510 - 05/31/20 05:46 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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Reminds me of the prime directive from Star Trek.  Or how bio experts, when working in the field, handle themselves by a certain code of conduct when studying a community of wild animals. As Hands off as possible, leaving of a little as footprint as possible, non-interference with the natural order of their community & state of affairs etc.  Basically trying to be as invisible as possible.




Exactly!

It seems reasonable to me that any life form more complex/advanced than the one it was observing could/would/should operate this way.


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: redgreenvines]
    #26710003 - 05/31/20 08:36 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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redgreenvines said:
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Regarding AI as malevolent I must say.. a monitoring system with the possibility to truncate any bad, evil, or damaged code.. is a way to save us..



so you want an ai to determine if you are evil or not, thereby putting it on the judge's bench above us.



Sorry if you mis read...

I'm saying we better have a delete button for wrong doings of the AI..

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: BrendanFlock]
    #26710119 - 05/31/20 09:53 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

how can you undo death?


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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: deniskov] * 1
    #26710157 - 05/31/20 10:28 PM (3 years, 9 months ago)

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I cant decide whether or not we're beneficial to the universe as a species.





what an odd idea.

.    It contains so many unexamined assumptions...

just for fun consider apoptosis
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apoptosis&t=hk&ia=definition
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=apoptosis
and the microbiome
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=microbiome

"Every time I take mushrooms I look at my hands, my feet, and I just think "fuck, what am I? a dog? a fish? a monkey?" It feels so unnatural to be intelligent, and I want to just ignore that feeling and move on, but every trip it comes back and makes me wonder."

of course you are not a fish! We are not as smart as we think we are. Humans are mostly motivated the same way all animals are. Don't ignore your feelings. Explore them while not tripping before tripping again. Wonder is good. Often better than answers. Have fun exploring, for yourself. Others answers may be right for them but not for you.

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Re: The value of humanity & intellect [Re: laughingdog]
    #26710507 - 06/01/20 05:21 AM (3 years, 9 months ago)

I am not a fish either, but I might be a worm


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