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>That's a very specific view of Utopia that I suggest most regular folk would not agree with The pain of learning and remembering and the zero-sum nature of fo
by shrimp_emoji 8y ago
>That's a very specific view of Utopia that I suggest most regular folk would not agree with
The pain of learning and remembering and the zero-sum nature of forgetting make me disagree with it, but you can call all of those "hindrances". If I could swell my processing speed and memory capacity to absurd levels and become one of many god-like intelligences, able of satisfying all of my curiosities with any and all facets of reality with no particularly strenuous effort before, as a last resort, exercising my power to mutate my mind to the point where I put myself in ceaseless ecstasy for its own sake (in these dimensions or the others[0]), that has to qualify as the definition of paradise.
Let's hope we crack the conservation of energy sometime. : p
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sublimed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sublimed
- sonnyblarney 8y agoFrom a classical view, maybe you're wanting more and more intellectual heroin. The Eastern answer would be to 'let go' then you break the cycle of incarnation and then you 'get it'. I think high level Abrahamic metaphysics would put 'God' far beyond any kind of acquisition of knowledge, 'states of ecstasy' etc. etc.. Once we crack the law of conservation of energy we'll be up against another boundary :)