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TRN

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Re: TRN
« Reply #45 on: July 02, 2017, 07:15:58 am »
"finite" vs "infinite" hypothesis

I struggled between two goal systems - one is what most people have - "be socially acceptable and you are doing fine",  and one is well, grow up and wake up or die trying. Major source of cognitive dissonance.

Today it came to me when I was in the kitchen that the major public's lives are heavily and vitally dependent on limitations: "freedom" in the common sense means "the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint." which translates in real life situations as not being censored and choosing whatever brand of cereal they like, while they are bound in space and time, in perishable and pretty lousy human forms(frankly, we don't even have the freedom to lick our noses with our tongues.) The goal of life is to actively stay away from infinity through various means, and keep the mental + physical constraints on for as long as possible - the most "preferable" death occurs in one's 80s-90s, usually when one's sleeping or surrounded by one's children to keep up the illusion of "company" till the last minute.

We have this fundamental filter built deep under our skins - "good or bad", "positive or negative". Every single experience goes through it or it wouldn't even make sense in our minds. And this filter is built around the single goal of avoiding infinity: what preserves the idea of "me", a unquestionably separate special being in a whole wide universe, is treasured; and everything that points to the opposite triggers disgust, fear, and a burning desire to make it go away. This may be how things work in the finite game, and if I(anyone) choose to enter the infinite game, I imagine the labels are the other way around:  Love what upsets you, and hate what comforts you.


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