/lit/ - Literature

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humans do not have access to objective reality, there is no Self (it by definition could not exist), physics cannot simulate most of the behavior of living systems, this is why we haven't mapped out the behavior of the genome or diseases very accurately, and why people still die from cancer and heart disease regularly and we're helpless to do anything, we have no idea what we don't know about matter and energy, hence debate continues about what constitutes them and what types they produce, some people doubt the existence of dark matter, others think quantum phenomena is mathematical bullshit and want to keep the standard model away from such species of thought, and still others think that there is an element of emerging intelligence or self-organization in physical systems which again we are only barely cognizant of. There is also a hard limit on computing which we're fast approaching as well as one for the human nervous system, we've just now reached and this is why art has died and why scientific genius has all but dried up (and why we will focus all our efforts on programming and social control systems, gene engineering and move away from deep space exploration, high energy physics, energy tech and theoretical physics; since we cannot go further). Beyond this, there is the issue of using language to communicate and that maths comes from language and human grammatical conventions, its rooted in the logic of barely sentient nervous systems which are not fine tuned for the task of maths. Finally, technology and biology are primary to economics, so it makes no sense to root one's philosophical understanding in economics, which is what Ayn Rand did. I could not imagine not just being a biodeterminist materialist who accepts the heterogeneity of irreconcilable elemental forces and an incomplete epistemology that continually leaks truth value and yields nothing like objectivity but works long enough to salvage a technological cocoon within which we can protect ourselves from the schizogenic effect of the screaming void. That's what I see as the most logical and painless philosophy possible. OF course this makes people want to die, which it should, and so they continue searching for meaning where there can be none.