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"The sea makes people feel as if they are in a whirl of action ... But this is wrong thinking, We say waves “cause” a ship to break up ... but the wave itself
by jacknews 7y ago
"The sea makes people feel as if they are in a whirl of action ... But this is wrong thinking,
We say waves “cause” a ship to break up ...
but the wave itself is passive and without the power to act."
Nope, the wave is energy transmitted, from the sun, to the wind, to the sea ... to the ship.
In the same way a mind is a wave, constrained and channeled by it's neuron substrate, and by external stimulii.
The article is nonsense to me, there is no such thing as passive - the universe is all active, seething.
- ozim 7y agoI think main point is that "wave" does not have any agenda, it does not have any purpose. By itself atoms cannot "decide" to cause chain reaction. All of this is just "programmed". This kind of topic is taken on by Stanislaw Lem in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible Really liked this book.
- ozim 7y agoTo add to previous comment. "What's to Fear", if author would read that book, he would notice there is still a lot to fear. Synthetic life form, without even mimicking humans could be dangerous. The same as waves in the ocean, even if those waves have no agenda to kill us all, if it is 10 in Beaufort scale you better stay away from those waves.