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Comment author: aausch 09 November 2012 08:27:53PM *  6 points [-]

Our brains are closest to being sane and functioning rationally at a conscious level near our birth (or maybe earlier). Early childhood behaviour is clear evidence for such.

"Neurons" and "brains" are damaged/mutated results of a mutated "space-virus", or equivalent. All of our individual actions and collective behaviours are biased in externally obvious but not visible to us ways, optimizing for:

  1. terraforming the planet in expectation of invasion (ie, global warming, high CO2 pollution)

  2. spreading the virus into space, with a built in bias for spreading away from our origin (voyager's direction)

Comment author: thomblake 09 November 2012 09:52:45PM 1 point [-]

I love that people are still commenting on this post.

Comment author: PrometheanFaun 20 October 2013 08:14:19AM 5 points [-]

Lesswrong's threads have defeated Death.

Comment author: MugaSofer 09 November 2012 11:56:13PM 1 point [-]

Hey, it's a good post. Thought provoking and so on.