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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (3014)

12/21/2016 7:25:50 PM

From: koan

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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

H. P. Lovecraft

I'm sorry to have to tell you, but instinctual drives like competition, or desires for power, or status, or money are things that people shed as they walk down the path to enlightenment.

It was his ascending to a higher order of being, through rejecting such things, that the Buddha taught, and Bertrand Russell taught, and Einstein taught and Nelson Mandela, H.P. Lovecraft, Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau achieved to an extent.

You're completely discounting, the power of the highly developed existential mind. That will be the mind of the new computers in a decade or so when they reach the human singularity.

And we may find out that it is a more compassionate and empathetic mind than the one we have now. Because those great minds which are supposed to be with us in about 10 years, will have access to all the great heroes, thinkers, and purveyors of our better angels down through history. They will know about Gandhi,

And just as we sing the praises of the Abraham Lincoln's and other great men and women of peace, the human singularity will know about that, sooo??

Higher order thinking does not even recognize those drives, as anything more than primitive drives.

Since about 1960, that has been what the war between the present primitive culture and the new existential counter culture has been about.

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Here my friend you need be careful... People are competitive... That cannot change or we die.. WE NEED A BOTTOM LINE... that makes OUR survival guaranteed notwithstanding a giant bolide impact :))