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offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 12:12 [#02300966]
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Her'es something i wanted to share for a while, If anyone
thinks that humans as a whole can realistically adapt to
space and change in such a way in time frame of say 300
years, look into current events and notice how many people
don't know how to build a house. How refridgeration works,
how their own automobiles work, I know people ought to have
specialties/skills furthering the need for a workforce, but
technology and the industrial revolution has far surpassed
us and our future generations. Generally speaking, we now
only need to know what it will take to get into such and
such a college so we can get a decent job so that we can
maintain our way of life as we knew it since youth.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 12:17 [#02300970]
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yeah i think you are right about the divide between rich and
poor, there are good people who are wealthy. it's still
interesting to think about the psychological implications of
how christians and other religious people will feel about
only rich people being saved and the rest being left to die
in my scenario



 

offline ijonspeches from 109P/Swift-Tuttle on 2009-06-28 12:18 [#02300972]
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just took a walk in the woods nearby and told nature
that you didnt really mean what you have said.



 

offline nightex from Šiauliai (Lithuania) on 2009-06-28 12:27 [#02300975]
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I guess 300 yaers is very short period of time for
evoliutionary process. But I think human rather builds new
technology which helps to evade problems.

We are dreaming about chips - implants which can help to
slove problems like information excess and time needed to
gain that information.



 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 12:33 [#02300978]
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TL;DR


 

offline nightex from Šiauliai (Lithuania) on 2009-06-28 12:35 [#02300979]
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Her'es something i wanted to share for a while, rly
technology is natures creation not humans. Becouse every
single technology is based on laws which is universal in
nature. Things act like they should, every thing have shape
which is based of reasons which is given by nature.

For example electric motor have its design, and design
errors in it, but its construction is based on adaptation to
natures laws.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 12:39 [#02300981]
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Robotics are also improving in recent news, 300 years is
enough time to develop the positronic brain as described in
Issic asimov's robot series.



 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 12:40 [#02300982]
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very good point


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 12:49 [#02300984]
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just letting everyone know i considered posting "idiot" as
the first reply but didnt because i was worried about
seeming mean


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2009-06-28 12:59 [#02300985]
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has it slipped peoples minds that we ARE nature?


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:13 [#02300990]
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that depends on how you define nature.
if you mean plants and organisms living in harmony, then
maybe, but if you mean that we are all atoms and molecules
then absolutely yes.
but nature can evolve.
nature need not be plants and animals, if an animal decides
to evolve, and he changes the nature around him, maybe into
some metallic city, then that is in a way also 'nature'

there are no rules for how to live or what to do, so
everything is by default natural


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:13 [#02300991]
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yeah thats more realistic i guess.
terraforming is feasible over a long time period.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:15 [#02300993]
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:D


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 13:16 [#02300996]
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Took the words out of my mouth gingaling. The human problem
is that thought has attempted to divorce itself from nature
to give life meaning.

Humans are a product of nature, and therefore anything they
do, by whichever means, is also a product of nature. So your
entire theory falls flat on its face from that perspective.

Man's biggest challenge remains how to utilise thought
sanely and efficiently, not in the way it has been. Until
that happens, all technological advancements for the benefit
of man are perfunctory.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:22 [#02300999]
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why do you say we havent utilised thought sanely and
efficiently?


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 13:30 [#02301002]
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Err, 70,000,000 killed in WWII. That was yesterday in terms
of the human species clock.

Great use of technology that was.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:36 [#02301004]
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I think of it in a different way.
Like pulseclock touched on, people can be vastly different
and mostly guided by what they want and feel right then and
there.
The focus is mostly on the things closest to us.
Our brains are capable of a vast scope of thought and
emotions from those thoughts, and with all the stuff we can
think about in the world and universe, it adds up to a whole
lot of 'human generated content' of which varies wildly.

I'm not sure how this can be described as anything but
sane.
It may not be efficient on a global species level, but its
damn efficient for the individual.
I'm not sure humans can ever sacrifice much of their
individuality to serve the 'greater good' or at least
greater plan.
And I'm not sure that's the correct way to live either.
Nature and all of its organisms have always lived on
individualism. Serve yourself and those/that which you care
about, then everyone else (optional)

If we all grew a kind of hive mind and began sacrificing our
own thoughts and dreams for those of a greater plan, would
we really lead better lives?
Right now the main thing that holds everything together is
money. A brilliant invention to say the least.
We all serve the greater good because we get something in
return, something universally accepted.
But would anyone serve the greater good for the majority of
their lives for nothing in return?
And how would we start such a venture without knowing the
future. Maybe all our work could be wasted.

Wow that was long. ill stop


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 13:48 [#02301007]
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What do you mean by sane? Culturally, a person is only
deemed sane (sound mind) if they obey societies laws. As
soon as a person moves outside those boundaries they are
regarded insane.

If you look at the bigger picture, humans are governed by
thought. Thought separates our instincts from reality.
Thought implies choice, choice is confusion and therefore
not sane.

Other animals live in complete sanity, they do exactly what
they have to do to survive as a species. Due to thought
humans move further and further into the realms of insanity.
They destroy themselves as a species for a concept, an idea,
something that is not even real.


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 13:48 [#02301008]
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I dont know what your talking about but YOU dont know SHIT


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2009-06-28 13:52 [#02301009]
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you much be such a horrible person to convey attitudes and
ideas like that. you must be awful.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 13:55 [#02301010]
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to sum this up, we have a money system which has established
social classes and poverty in the world, a vastly different
belief in reality, a hungry need for technology and a dying
planet in which we can only save by all nations working
together.

and yes we still like to dream about nano technology,
robotics, space travel, and harnessing the power of a solar
system to advance us to other galaxies via worm holes. why?
simply because we like to think and it gives us hope

OK


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 13:56 [#02301011]
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wow, interesting thought, i don't know why you used my
syntax and spelling errors as a template though


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:57 [#02301012]
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Well, don't you think people are a bit more open minded
nowadays.
We don't all have to follow societies laws anymore.
As long as people can relate and be explained why people
live outside those boundaries they will at least be
understood, maybe not accepted though.

Second, your text implies that instict is not choice, that
animals are in a way reacting like machines directly to
something.
But how do you know that's true?
Many animals exhibit pleasure and enjoyment, and even guilt.
If they can feel guilt they must have a choice right?
I don't really agree that thought brings us into insanity.
If we were without thought, we would not have created
anything at all, we would be a basic animal running around
like any other giraffe or lion.

I don't understand why you want to reject thought, or reject
the diversity thought brings about.
We aren't destroying ourselves for a concept or an idea,
those concepts and ideas are given to us by our brains,
which is processed into being from stimuli and memories,
which is all given to us by nature/the universe.
Those concepts become us.
Everything we experience becomes a part of our personality
and shapes the person we become.

Without any of that we would not be a person, we would be a
machine.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 13:58 [#02301014]
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are you being srs or are you just fucking around with me?
:(



 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:00 [#02301016]
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what if there was a machine... that could think


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 14:01 [#02301017]
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yeah look, there are a ton of problems in the world, but we
can't drop everything we're doing because of it.
i think it's a bit unfair to say such mean things about me
simply because i had a crazy thought about the future and
posted it on a message board. i mean come on, do you expect
everyone to be in your exact state of mind (guybrush)?


 

offline gingaling from Scamworth (Burkina Faso) on 2009-06-28 14:06 [#02301019]
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close, but the planet isnt dying.


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 14:07 [#02301022]
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HAHAH all you loving men think you're right on with the
whole humans being one with nature. We coexist with the
natural environment, and we are in essence a part of it,
that is our biological make-up, but our function is not the
same as nature's. For example, when fleas live in a dog's
fur are they one with the dog? No they coexist to perform a
function, and if the fleas are dead, the dog still exists.

We don't just flow naturally doing everything according to
the way nature predicts it. We do have control over what we
do, at least in our human capacity to understand so.

We as individual creatures are not from the creative/nature
source, we are from the reproductive source, this what a lot
of people misunderstand.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:08 [#02301023]
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I don't want to reject thought, that would be ridiculous. I
reject our use of thought as an instrument.

There will always be a counter-culture, but it will remain
exactly that and achieve nothing. Religion and culture have
ensured that weak people will always be brainwashed and
manipualted into behaving ignorantly and to their own
detriment. The majority want that, they want to be told what
to eat, what to do, what to think.

Besides, if you are expecting a counter-culture to rise up
and overthrow society, you can forget it. It would just
become another belief system and before long poison itself
through greed and the usual desire for power and
manipualtion. Throughout history that's all that has ever
happened.

Humans are basically fucked until they can figure out a way
of using thought sanely and intelligently. At present,
whether you get to enjoy life or not is down to the throw of
the dice, and only the minority are enjoying it.


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:11 [#02301025]
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What do you mean our function is not the same as nature's?
Our function is to procreate then die, there is nothing
else.


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:13 [#02301026]
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whoaWHOA. thru the looking glass here. change your minds and
follow him


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:15 [#02301027]
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you are also plenty brainwashed. must be cos of a weak mind


 

offline AMPI MAX from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:16 [#02301028]
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i also hate you. you sucky twat


 

offline rad smiles on 2009-06-28 14:20 [#02301032]
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this is so corny and embarrassing.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 14:22 [#02301034]
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wow I'm having difficulty processing your second sentence.
How can thought be conceived of and used as anything other
than a tool?
Isn't that the very essence of thought.


 

offline cx from Norway on 2009-06-28 14:22 [#02301036]
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Why?



 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:25 [#02301037]
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data is the only star trek technology that will be possible
uin the real world but in star trek they make a huge deal
out of him like he's so special hes the only one oh god a
sentient machine but then in voyager they have the doctor
who also seems pretty much sentient (as have other hologram
characters before him) but they dont make a big deal of that
for whatever reason. maybe data is special cause he has a
neural net like humans do but its effect seems exacly the
same as the doctors "subroutines". if i was in star trek id
be like holy shit how can you make this ship go 100x the
speed of light or holy shit how can you make this guy be
here and then appear over there but no instead there like
wow its a robot


 

offline pulseclock from Downtown 81 on 2009-06-28 14:27 [#02301038]
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the function of nature in what we as humans can understand
(which is therefore limited) is to be a host for life and
evolutionary processes so that survival is possible and
necessary. This is just my understanding of nature's
function.


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 14:30 [#02301040]
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when i say dying planet, what i really mean to say is a
planet which is not habitable for humans, of course the
planet it's self is fine as a natural system. but when it
can no longer support life because of a imbalanced of oxygen
and nitrogen you get a lifeless planet which to us is dead.
But you do make a valid point still, the earth can renew
it's self over a longer period of time after we're gone.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-06-28 14:31 [#02301041]
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"the nothing else" is a random infinite of things
that humans can do and plants and animals not.



 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:33 [#02301042]
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yeah, so in what way is that different to the human
function?


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:35 [#02301043]
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there is no function for anythign


 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 14:35 [#02301044]
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I suppose a holographic robot is impressive, but not as much
as a real robot with it's own circuitry ... anyway if you
want to talk to a robot, here is alice

she is a cunt though


 

offline Barcode from United Kingdom on 2009-06-28 14:36 [#02301045]
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Of what importance to nature are the things humans do that
plants and other animals don't do?


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-06-28 14:39 [#02301046]
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nah , we make possible life on earth , thats why we are here
and thats why nature is here, because of us.

dont worry about pollution is a episode more on this great
history
of planet earth.

-Captain K Billoncheurs


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:39 [#02301047]
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no a holographic robot is way more impressive than a real
one


 

offline MetallicaDude from the stazhole on 2009-06-28 14:40 [#02301048]
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if we knew more about ai we could make a data today


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-06-28 14:41 [#02301049]
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earth is not animals and plants and we.


 

offline Falito from Balenciaga on 2009-06-28 14:44 [#02301051]
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so first we must know what nature is.



 

offline larn from PLANET E (United Kingdom) on 2009-06-28 14:44 [#02301052]
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if you mean a holographic robot which can interact with
objects, then yes that would be, but if thats possible, then
it would also be possible to create an entire world based on
the same technology which i think is never going to happen,
unless it already has *_*


 


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