Aurora
It should be reassuring that humans don’t get what other humans are thinking, either, but it just highlights how fucked up human neural tissue can be.
Martha Wells • System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries Book 7)
we persist in believing that, if we stay on the same path, we will eventually find those answers—instead of admitting that there is something wrong with our approach. Trapped within this paradigm, it is difficult to grasp the idea of something that reductionism cannot measure in its entirety.
T. Colin Campbell • Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
With the emerging ability to improve the embodied experience for all sentient beings, our species is entering a painful adolescent phase. We must realize it is no longer acceptable to coast along on values and purpose inherited from the past, without needing to exercise agency and responsibility to decide what we will work toward. We have to accept... See more
Michael Levin • The Space of Possible Minds
Only the future can tell. But we need to mend our ways. Otherwise, nihilism will win and we will deconstruct ourselves into oblivion. Maybe this is will be the million dollar question of the next century. What do we do, when we do not have to do anything?