I think that having little meaning and no hope is actually not boring when you can feel your body.
I think that we have been brought up in an environment where we look to the thinking mind to achieve meaning, pleasure and satisfaction. And that, as status-seeking animals, we develop the impression that we should just "be okay" through thinking activity; that's it's a sign of mental health to be okay just through thinking.
And that all this is basically untrue. Thinking of itself actually can't deliver on its self-stated promises. It has its uses but only within a wider context. Yet, this realisation puts the intellectual and the academic into a quandary, for they're very good at something which of itself is actually useless. They're acquiring status from it. Do they give up their lifelong investment in thinking and look elsewhere, facing God knows what craziness? Or just chug along as they are, perhaps getting into anti-human or anti-life philosophies or maybe seeing if they can drag anyone else into their nihilistic state.
Personally, I think that the former option is best.
becoming inanimate also connected to becoming machine? the intertwining of biological and machine, unallocated excess energy from the resulting gain in efficiency, before the discovery of new tasks or the infrastructure to support the effort on new problem
I think that having little meaning and no hope is actually not boring when you can feel your body.
I think that we have been brought up in an environment where we look to the thinking mind to achieve meaning, pleasure and satisfaction. And that, as status-seeking animals, we develop the impression that we should just "be okay" through thinking activity; that's it's a sign of mental health to be okay just through thinking.
And that all this is basically untrue. Thinking of itself actually can't deliver on its self-stated promises. It has its uses but only within a wider context. Yet, this realisation puts the intellectual and the academic into a quandary, for they're very good at something which of itself is actually useless. They're acquiring status from it. Do they give up their lifelong investment in thinking and look elsewhere, facing God knows what craziness? Or just chug along as they are, perhaps getting into anti-human or anti-life philosophies or maybe seeing if they can drag anyone else into their nihilistic state.
Personally, I think that the former option is best.
becoming inanimate also connected to becoming machine? the intertwining of biological and machine, unallocated excess energy from the resulting gain in efficiency, before the discovery of new tasks or the infrastructure to support the effort on new problem