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[Janus the Fox]

Main character? In my universe, It's Janus the Fox, the hero of the story

[Guest]

1. Everyone is the main character of stories that simply intertwine.

 

2. Yes, I believe so.

 

3. Yep, in fact there are a few such planets in the universe which I create (which I consider just as real as this one).

 

4. It would depend on the nature of the aliens, their technological capabilities, etc. But hopefully by that point Humans will be somewhat better at getting on with others, and will be able to coexist in some way.

 

6. Tesla.

 

7. Sun Tzu.

 

9. Yeah.

 

10. Yes, unfortunately.

 

(Note, I purposely missed 5 and 8).

[mercaesan]

I said there's no such thing as evil but really I think Evil exists, however it is fairly rare. A person does Evil if they do crimes and wrongdoings with the belief that they are wrong and unjustifiable. I'm convinced that this is sometimes the case, but most people usually believe that they are acting as a force of good or their actions are justified, no matter how strongly I disagree. Which doesn't mean it's okay to do whatever you want, but I would only consider it Evil if acting immorally is a conscious decision/you're aware that what you're doing is bad and do it anyway.

[Epitaph]

1. Yes. The main character is Terry Crews.

 

2. When I read about certain observable phenomenon, documented stuff that we know is there, but still don't have an explanation to, I think there is a unique energy signature much farther down within the atomic structures of living or thinking beings. Would it constitute as a soul? Who can say.

 

3. If there was a co dependancy synthesis, possibly. Ants and aphids.

 

4. The theory of the dark forest says no. The actual probability of us getting wiped out is high.

 

5. I'm going to write some stuff here. See what ya think.

 

Atoms are composed of electrons, neutrons, protons, and other miscellaneous bits. But what makes all these little systems work? Quarks. Quarks are sub atomic particles, and their "spin" or directional movement in a few other dimensions determines how every element within an atom can function and form. And what determines how quarks function? Another layer of sub-sub atomic particles. Quarks, at least have been verified and proven. The other lower sub atomic particles are theory, as we have no way of detecting them as of yet.

 

If we focus just for a moment on the brain and neural pathways, we get neuron clusters, which all primarily function through an electrical impulse. A memory is an electrical impulse that hits certain neurons in the right order and triggers many things. Old feelings. Memories, ghostly images within the mind. And that's where it gets interesting to me. A memory is not just a memory of a place or thing. It is a reconstruction of light passing through your eyes within your brain.

 

We store a very tangible image of light within our minds, and in order to access it in the form of a memory, we need the fundamental forces of atoms, quarks, and the others to even exist at this level. With no electromagnetism, we have no electrical signals to travel down neuron pathways. We have no bonds to form atoms that from neurons, or pathways and nerves. So, in theory, if we were able to select all the firing neurons of a memory, and cut them out all together, we can physically hold a memory. We can physically decode it if we understand how these electrical signals work and translate themselves into light.

 

Let's jump to another subject. Touch. You pick up a rock. Your mind thinks it's touching the rock because you feel it, and you see it moving. But the objective reality is that you're not. Atoms cannot touch due to the attracting but repelling forces that bind them together. The only time that atoms can touch results in two reactions. The sun, and the atomic bomb.

 

All those textures you feel and remember, all those objects you thought you moved, all the people that ever touched you and vice versa, the feeling they inspired? You never actually touched them. A weight lifter sees muscle and force of will that lifts a weight to overcome gravity, when the truth is, it's force of will alone, exerting itself through electromagnetic signals and the body they reside in.

 

To the actual subject of emotions then. Knowing all this, what would you think? That emotions are just chemicals and sensations? Those sensations and chemicals need very far layered forces to exist and function. Any organic life can develop muscle and bone and structures that move. But what's unique about emotions is that they singularily create entirely from nothing and they shape our small slice of the universe actively.

 

I talked of memory, but what about ideas? The person who first envisioned a machine? An invention that didn't exist yet? If memories could be sliced out and decoded because they have a unique energy signature, then so can ideas. Many of our ideas draw themselves from memories and experiences, but also emotion. We have cars that start with the turn of a key because one day an engineer at Ford lost a friend when the starting crank snapped back and hit him in the head, killing him.

 

Those emotions the engineer felt contributed to manipulating forces through specific force of will and research, because he vowed that an accident like that would never happen again. Emotion is a shaping determining force just as unique and etheral as the universe we are enveloped in, at least to me.

 

6. Wouldn't all of these people be smarter if alive today? Using the new knowledge we have access to they could all theorize or discover new things.

 

7. I couldn't really say. All people with generally far reaching thoughts in different categories. I know all the names but don't remember enough about everybody. I also know that a number of these individuals are flawed individuals. They sought answers to the strife that afflicted their lives. Sometimes the strife in their lives was created by them. In seeking answers, they found them, but whatever wisdom they had to share came from different angles. To say one was wiser than the other couldn't really be done.

 

8. While the universe doesn't drop a guide on what's evil, generally our emotions are probably the compass. Evil is causing distress and pain with intent. The greater the intent to cause pain and sufferring, the more elaborate the thoughts to make that reality, the greater the evil.

 

9. There's a few larger organisations out there that recognize poverty through debt as a form of slavery. I wouldn't say that poverty is serfdom. I'd say that the system we live in is still serfdom, with just enough fluffy pillows thrown in that nobody compares it, even though fundamentally it's the same. Poverty is a symptom of being in a differnt form of serfdom.

 

"Hey Serf, do work or die." Lack of obediance = punishment 

 

"Hey free man, pay the taxes for "your" property or go to prison." Lack of obediance = punishment

 

10. We already have. Not a question of will.

[verily-forsooth-egads]

Evil exists and it's none of those things. Evil is a state of mind, not an action.

 

Serfdom and poverty are not the same nor is one intrinsically far worse than the other.

 

I couldn't answer the poll on those grounds.

[iff]

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