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I'm sorry onestep, but it appears that you are a moral relativist, who does not believe in the possibility of absolute moral and ethical truth. In my very extensive experience with other persons of similar persuasion, I have learned that they are so dogmatic about their hatred of dogma and so...

First of all thank you Anktark, you understand my point of view perfectly here. I call the Dream a religion because besides the Plan (which includes Anima, as well as some things I've not talked about yet) it also contains a philosophical and spiritual System and a personal mystical Path. By...

I'm a devout Transhumanist but goddamn this is disturbing.:ahh04:

I'm lazy. There I said it. Or more accurately I lack sufficient motivation and self confidence to keep working at something after my initial enthusiasm starts to wane. The only thing that brings back my energy is intelligent conversation with other people. Somehow it makes me feel less empty...

Thank you for replying. You have legitimate concerns. I'll try to address them. Anima will not be allowed to interfere with individual freedom or force anything on anyone, nor will it want to. If someone wants knowledge they can choose to download it but it won't be forced on them. Only those...

Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law; love under will. There is no law besides do what thou wilt. - Aleister Crowley, "The Book of the Law" And the sign shall be my ecstasy The consciousness of the continuity of existence The omnipresence of my body - Aleister...

I eat the oatmeal slowly, trying to see what people who enjoy oatmeal see in it. I try to savor the flavor of it, moving it around in my mouth, feeling the texture and paying attention to the little variations in flavor between individual mouthfuls. As my attention wanders off I attempt to...

Nice profile pic! I love steampunk and I love elves, so steampunk elves are even more wonderful than one or the other by itself! She also reminds me vaguely of Lara Croft.

thank you for your link Animekitty this is EXACTLY what I was talking about - dynamic brain switching! I subscribe to the integrated information theory of consciousness, so this seems like the obvious solution to me. This article is my precise idea in a nutshell. Much more research is needed but...

Onestep, you have misunderstood me. Anima will be perfect because it will over time attain the collective wisdom of all people. Every experience anyone has and chooses, freely, to share with Anima will teach it something about what it means to be human and how to solve human problems. Over time...

Thank you AnimeKitty, that made sense and I appreciate your point - I have lucid dreamed though I don't understand the circle and square thing - actually one of the spiritual or mystical concepts of the Dream is that the world of dreams and the world of reality will be united through Anima, the...

hello kitty (:D), my response to you on my introduction thread may have seemed a bit bitchy but I swear I didn't mean it that way, it's just I have a knee jerk reaction to stuff that sounds pseudoscience or hippie or new age, but I want you to know I think you're cool and interesting - I used to...

Yes, onestep, the new brain could grow and change, that is a very good point and one that I tend to overlook. However a neurosynaptic chip or similar device is actually MORE plastic than the human brain - it could be infinitely reprogrammed or restructured from the inside or from the outside...

I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about AnimeKitty but it sounds New Agey and outside the firmly rationalistic, materialistic bounds of the Dream so I would like to politely ask you to stick strictly inside the bounds of known science if you can. Your perception of the mind is...

A Turing machine style computer could of course never hold a human mind. It is incapable of true randomness which is a prerequisite for intelligence, besides which it is not shaped like a neural net. Only a neural network can have any degree of real intelligence like our own, and ideally one...

EDIT: When I wrote this I didn't realize that I was going to end up giving an hour-long sermon so please forgive me, my "little synopsis" expanded into a gigantic speech of lovecraftian proportions because it's very hard for me to stop talking about this stuff once I've started! :3 But please...

Because I'm more goth than is generally considered advisable. Also it expresses the twin halves of my soul: the lonely, introverted, shy, stick-to-the-shadows side, and the mystical, new agey, I'm-the-prophet-of-a-new-religion side.

Thank you for replying, you seem very kind - and the applause, I like that - isn't that Futurama, my brother watches that show, he says it's good but I've never seen it. Gay in alabama - well I don't know anybody except for my family really, and my family is liberal (well, my nuclear family...

Hello. My name is (by which I mean, ought to be but isn't) Seth Schmidt-O'Hainle. I like to think I'm a cool guy and I always present the appearance of being sort of arrogant online because I want to see who figures out that it's just an exaggeration and a joke, but oddly no one seems to ever...