Posted by Kazper at 5:35pm Feb 5 '07Perhaps evolving into a more... survival, enlightened being involves devising a new survival strategy... where we are aware that the many things we instinctively feel threaten our suvival... don't, and we act accordingly by not acting on them... to promote our survival...
Perhaps our survival strategy is still too primitive to allow us to have relationships with alien civilizations (unless they share our survival strategy)... Like, let's say we were completely unaware that a third party could manipulate our retaliator strategy so that we retaliate against an innocent or retaliate against an aggressor but where an other strategy would've been more effective. A civilization more aware than us would probably be very relunctant to form a relationship with us knowing that we could be manipulated fairly easily into attacking them... (I intend on looking into Game Theory. Very interesting, the little bit introduced in "The Selfish Gene".)
I think that what I've been glimpsing for years now may be a new survival strategy, one that would be capable of dealing with more primitive survival strategies and more advanced survival strategies.
Survival strategies devised to prevent others from killing us and survival strategies devised to prevent boredom from killing us. Since, I think, everything an other does affects our ability to survive, even if extremely slightly through all sorts of indirect routes, we should only prohibit the very direct things...
To risk your surivivial can ultimately be to help promote your survival... since we're ultimately motivated to survive... To worry about a particular individual and its personality traits because you think the personality traits are indicating that this one could be a threat to your survival may actually create an enviroment which poses much more of a threat...
What is the common desire that we all share? The desire to survive. From this desire comes our ultimate principle: Examine and discuss (discussion takes place even when you're by yourself because it's with yourself) causes and their effects and then do what you think best to survive. And from the ultimate principle we develop general principles which can generate less general principles...
... Conscious survival strategies should be superior to unconscious survival strategies...
What are the main things that each one of us needs to survive: food, water, shelter and hobbies (I include them (personal pleasures) because I'm probably correct on why they exist). So, let us try to consciously devise a survival strategy that facilitates the attainment of all these things by each one of us.
Experience is the only teacher. There is first hand experience and second hand experience. Everything is experience. First hand experience may be a better teacher though.
A definition for consciousness may be: awareness, by one, of their enviroment and their physical being and what they are doing and why they are doing it. Let's just say everything in existence has consciousness, just to varying degrees. The more conscious an entity becomes the more heightened its awareness. I think the individual components of consciousness in one could vary in the... magnitude of awareness so that one could have a very heightened awareness of their surroundings and physical being and of what they are doing but still not be very aware of why...
Ohhh. I glimpse a strategy. I long to see it completely and to express it exactly.
If you are surviving (if you have everything you need) do you also really need to have others survivie as you survive...?
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
Perhaps our survival strategy is still too primitive to allow us to have relationships with alien civilizations (unless they share our survival strategy)... Like, let's say we were completely unaware that a third party could manipulate our retaliator strategy so that we retaliate against an innocent or retaliate against an aggressor but where an other strategy would've been more effective. A civilization more aware than us would probably be very relunctant to form a relationship with us knowing that we could be manipulated fairly easily into attacking them... (I intend on looking into Game Theory. Very interesting, the little bit introduced in "The Selfish Gene".)
I think that what I've been glimpsing for years now may be a new survival strategy, one that would be capable of dealing with more primitive survival strategies and more advanced survival strategies.
Survival strategies devised to prevent others from killing us and survival strategies devised to prevent boredom from killing us. Since, I think, everything an other does affects our ability to survive, even if extremely slightly through all sorts of indirect routes, we should only prohibit the very direct things...
To risk your surivivial can ultimately be to help promote your survival... since we're ultimately motivated to survive... To worry about a particular individual and its personality traits because you think the personality traits are indicating that this one could be a threat to your survival may actually create an enviroment which poses much more of a threat...
What is the common desire that we all share? The desire to survive. From this desire comes our ultimate principle: Examine and discuss (discussion takes place even when you're by yourself because it's with yourself) causes and their effects and then do what you think best to survive. And from the ultimate principle we develop general principles which can generate less general principles...
... Conscious survival strategies should be superior to unconscious survival strategies...
What are the main things that each one of us needs to survive: food, water, shelter and hobbies (I include them (personal pleasures) because I'm probably correct on why they exist). So, let us try to consciously devise a survival strategy that facilitates the attainment of all these things by each one of us.
Experience is the only teacher. There is first hand experience and second hand experience. Everything is experience. First hand experience may be a better teacher though.
A definition for consciousness may be: awareness, by one, of their enviroment and their physical being and what they are doing and why they are doing it. Let's just say everything in existence has consciousness, just to varying degrees. The more conscious an entity becomes the more heightened its awareness. I think the individual components of consciousness in one could vary in the... magnitude of awareness so that one could have a very heightened awareness of their surroundings and physical being and of what they are doing but still not be very aware of why...
Ohhh. I glimpse a strategy. I long to see it completely and to express it exactly.
If you are surviving (if you have everything you need) do you also really need to have others survivie as you survive...?
~Shawn Savoie~
~Ottawa, Ontario, Canada~
Re: Ruminations. - Kazper