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>>10037683

>This is what retards actually think

Not really, but if that's what you need to tell yourself. The truth is most of them lack a real sense of curiosity. You can't teach that. They can feign it for a time but they'll never have that lifelong burning desire to know and improve -- a few will, and those few might go on to say something worth hearing, but most will simply live life going through the motions.

This is one of the few fields where you can skip tertiary education and be none the worse for it if you're driven enough; in fact it might even prove to be a net positive.

>>9687429
I should say, *sentience* > madness. At the extremes the two polarities of the brain suggest something like a choice between T-1000 autism or vampire cannibalism, Scylla and Charybdis. Neither is particularly great. Consciousness is a question, remains a question, and is a question worth pursuing. One asks it in good faith while prostrate before one black hole or another and as the controls on the ship continue to burst into flames. To my mind if you're not standing around with your head cocked to one side and drool leaking out of the side of your mouth thinking about this stuff then some step has probably been skipped. We don't know anything (and as AO says, we haven't seen anything yet).

My own hope is that it's possible that intelligence, like chaos, is also a kind of fractality. When any of us gets smarter we all get smarter (and more fragile?). When any of us gets crazier we all get crazier (and more antifragile?). When any of us gets dumber we all get dumber (and more robust?). The mimetosphere fucks with itself and we keep catching up to it just as it turns another corner. Like people wandering in labyrinths indistinguishable from cities, cities planned on Borgesian maps seeking out exactitude in science.

>>9687501
This. Meme existentialism in every category loops back to capital, imho. Mimetics is the real forbidden science. To imitate with sincerity, to know that there is nothing more powerful under the sun. It's working on us long before we know it. It always does. Copies without originals. Nietzsche intuits it. Everyone intuits it. We can't simulate the simulation. We just make updates that eventually become autonomous.

*Silence* is the anodyne, obviously. But who has fucking time for *silence?* Hence a consumer world that runs on constant *stimulation,* constant *provocation,* constant *seduction.*

hey guys,

recommend me a good video that talks about Baudrillard and just explain his ideas casually.

thanks