TheAtomicMoose

Private Investigator? :-O

Part of this is about how we draw a balloon around what 'you' are. If you are a talking ape, then that ape might be lying to itself. If you are a rationalist trapped in part of the brain of a talking ape, then you are just tricking another part of it's brain, which is entirely rational.

I absolutely love that idea. But I think a clearer way of explaining it is that we are talking apes who have picked up this blunt, rotting bone of rationality and are using it as any other tool to pursue the same old talking ape desires. While the means are rational, the ends aren't even close. Anyway, great point and lovely imagery!

I regret my tone, since I was not aiming to shock. I think my own excitement and impressions of materialism, which I have only recently been introduced to, came out as a smug and pretentious. I am still impressed and shocked myself :) I am new here and I will hopefully get better at this. But still, I was trying to put an idea out there, which I see now I did so very poorly. I might as well get some practice and try to clarify:

Pain responds solely to stimuli and cannot be argued with. If your arm is severed, you could explain to your senses that you fully ... (read more)

Ouch, pitiless pith. Thanks for truth :)

Oh noes, I has been down voted! :( I thought what I said made sense; too much bong-fueled nihilism, I suppose. Could someone please criticize me, I'd very much like some feedback concerning my errors (was that off-topic, was it written poorly, did I get something wrong?).

If you wouldn't mind, Mr. FrankAdamek, which genetic overlords would you like to overthrow and which are your pals?

As far as pain being bad, I think it can be a little excessive sometimes. It would surely be nice if our negative sensations could work more cooperatively with our relatively ... (read more)

We routinely deny, or act in spite of, inconvenient truths. We can recognize that there is no meaning to love beyond evolutionary and chemical triggers, yet we fight for it just as fervently. Nihilists write books about nihilism despite it's admitted pointlessness. We are as blind as our very genes which multiply and propagate themselves despite our executioner sun which grows daily above our heads, eventually to the point of consuming everything we know. By the very act of living and pursuing human concocted dreams and desires, we are in a constant denial of our situation.