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> Our biology is an innate part of us - to improve, to fix, sure, but not to cast off. Right now, necessarily so. The more mysteries that science solves, the
by ben_w 3mo ago
> Our biology is an innate part of us - to improve, to fix, sure, but not to cast off.
Right now, necessarily so.
The more mysteries that science solves, the more we unweave the rainbow*, the worse the tension between rationality and our sense of what we are. Am I the atoms, or the pattern betwixt? Am I the present moment alone, my memories mere shadows of past patterns and my current form doomed to be a shadow to a future pattern of these self-same atoms?
Sometimes even the question is unbearable.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unweaving_the_Rainbow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unweaving_the_Rainbow
- dwb 3mo agoThere are many mysteries of the universe, but who we are, to the extent that I am rejecting the comment I replied to, is not one of them. I would love to see how humans explore reality and being (if we survive!) as time goes on and we figure more out, but I hope we do so as a whole species and not through the designs of a handful of zealots.