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Because if we're the only one's actually capable of appreciating the beauty of the universe, if we are in actuality the only mindful expression of the universe,
by mrkstu 8y ago
Because if we're the only one's actually capable of appreciating the beauty of the universe, if we are in actuality the only mindful expression of the universe, we are more incomparably valuable than any other element existing as part of that universe, and an irretrievable loss once gone.
- thfuran 8y agoWhy is perceiving beauty so valuable? It does exactly nothing except for the one perceiving.
- TuringTest 8y agoThat's why it's valuable. To us.
- Atlantium 8y agoWhen this species becomes capable of observing our feelings objectively and not simply saying "I feel it, it's mine so it must be truth" people like you are going to feel something very different.
- TuringTest 8y agoTruth != value. Of course my feelings are valuable to me; I don't need them to be true (and I don't even think being true or false _applies_ to judgement values). "I once heard a wise man say that if anyone were to know the whole answer, he would cease to exist." https://books.google.es/books?id=KuFwDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT181&ots=z2ut_ZFt-o&dq=%22I%20once%20heard%20a%20wise%20man%20say%20that%20if%20anyone%20were%20to%20know%20the%20whole%20answer%2C%20he%20would%20cease%20to%20exist.%22&pg=PT181#v=onepage&q=%22I%20once%20heard%20a%20wise%20man%20say%20that%20if%20anyone%20were%20to%20know%20the%20whole%20answer,%20he%20would%20cease%20to%20exist.%22&f=false https://books.google.es/books?id=KuFwDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT181&ots=...
- otippat 8y agoAn irretrievable loss to whom?
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