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Maybe just like everything in the history of mankind it is a material reality and we just dont understand it yet, just like we didn't understood how to fly for
by mattigames 5y ago
Maybe just like everything in the history of mankind it is a material reality and we just dont understand it yet, just like we didn't understood how to fly for millions of years, maybe it will take a few more to read a brain.
- jonfw 5y ago> Maybe just like everything in the history of mankind it is a material reality There are at least a gazillion things in the history of mankind that we have not been able to reduce to a material reality.
- mattigames 5y agoJust like people used to believe the sun was a god or something magical for centuries but now we know it's a mass of gas under nuclear fusion. In general believing that something we don't understand happens due magic (or however you wanna call non-material reality) has a bad track record.
- jonfw 5y agoUse the phrase 'god' or 'something magical' as a synonym for 'something beyond our understanding and control' and you'll realize we're a lot closer to that level of understanding than we are to having figured everything out. Abstraction makes it much easier to reason about complex systems, such as the world :)
- silent_cal 5y agoDon't you have knowledge of immaterial realities, like the lines, points, and angles of geometry? How is that possible if all you've got to think with is matter?
- mattigames 5y agoThe machinations of the brain are as immaterial as the bytes of a hard drive; which technically speaking are both material given that the information there is an electrical property of matter.
- silent_cal 5y agoOn the contrary - the more we focus on technology and treat everything as if it's a machine, the less we understand the true nature of the human mind. That's why the general trend in literature, art and architecture is down instead of up.