/lit/ - Literature

>>4001703
>Another useless post and you still haven't presented the proof of the error.

Pic related is a pizza. (Now, please be sure to inform me where you get lost in this post; I hope it isn't here.) 'Pizza' is a "semantic construct". We take this construct and tag the abstraction of the physical object with it. We have this circular shaped dough thing with cheese, tomatoes and other toppings, and call it a pizza.

Now, suppose I put a biscuit on it. Is it still a pizza? You might argue that it is a pizza WITH a biscuit on top, you might say that it is a biscuit pizza, or you may say something else.

The pizza is made up of many sub-constructs. We have the construct 'cheese', we have 'dough', etc.. But because it is a semantic construct, it is only a DESCRIPTION of a set of abstractions. it is not, and can never be, THE abstraction.

So now what happens when I pour lighter fluid into the dough mixture? You might say it's not a pizza, you might still think it is. I could put one molecule of lighter fluid into the pizza and you would never know it is there.

We have one continuous spectrum from an object that is not-pizza, right through to an object that is pizza, and back out the other side again with not-pizza (It may help you to mentally visualise this as a disk, with 'pizza' in the middle, and 'not-pizza' at the edges of the disc), but the outskirts of the construct obviously progress to absurdity.

Because semantic concepts are Descriptions, the verges of the concept will always break down when tested. There will always be a form, acquired through a linear series of sequential changes, that hovers at the outskirts of the definition; a point where you will say "I'm not sure if this is still a pizza."

The is no one true form for pizza: two pizzas with varying ratios of tomatoes to cheese will both be valid pizzas.

I hope you can understand this analogy; I have deliberately kept it simple for you. You are treating 'transhumanism' as a redundant concept because the verges of semantic description will inevitably reach absurdity. Your error is in overlooking is that EVERY semantic concept is like this. If you throw out 'transhumanism' on this basis, you have to throw away 'pizza' because exactly the same thing happens with that construct too.

I can't read poetry.