(May 20, 2009 at 3:25 am)lrh9 Wrote:(May 19, 2009 at 5:07 pm)Saerules Wrote: As for the more serrious discussion in this thread: The power of life is to be able to choose, even if one is wrong. So you would like to rid the world of choice, and make us all logical and unfeeling computers?
Hardly. The power of life is to have the power to enforce one's decision.
A decision is a choice. Just as non-decision is also a choice. In all reality, the only thing that makes life differant from rocks... is its ability to choose. The only thing that makes life differant from a computore, or other logical machine, is its capability to make the wrong choice.
The pleasure of life is to be able to choose. The privilege of life is to have the power to enforce one's decision. The power of life, I think, is the ability to question, to challenge and to overthrow previous trains of thought. And as Marxism does put it, the process of a thesis and an anti-thesis clashing to form a synthesis; constant renewal, I think its this conflict that's the beauty in life!
That is sentience: the ability to choose logically. In this way... computers and other thinking machines are sentient, as are many animals.
[color]Yeah ... I am so looking forward to the final 3 films![/color]
1-3 were pretty good, and four was alright... but what they did with five was... i have no word in my mental dictionary to describe: A pointless action movie based roughly on a genius book, badly acted, with many inacuracies. I hope that a differant person directs the next one.... the last one was horrible...
[color]For me the pleasure of life is life. Not being able to choose. I don't even know if we really CAN make 'choices'...I don't think I believe we do any more than the fact we think we do.
But it doesn't matter to me because what matters to me is that we enjoy the ride either way. I love life, with or without 'choices'. We choose things, but I don't know how that's something to celebrate. We make good choices, we also make bad choices. That's obvious - I don't think we have any choice in the matter ultimately WHICH choices we make so in THAT sense at least I don't believe in choices.
Life itself is what matters to me ultimately. Nothing more because everything else truly real is included in that. Be it family, friends, curiosity, the truth, overall well-being or whatever.
Probably the most important things for me in no particular order are ultimately curiosity the truth and empathy and compassion. Because those things pretty much cover everything for me (including family and friends of course - I have compassion and empathy for them, love, etc, I am honest with them as in truth, etc, and I am curious in the sense I am interested by them/in them, etc).[/color]
Life must have choice... or else it is no more than a thoughtless machine. In fact... it often loses motor function entirley when choice is removed from life... becoming little more than a rock... if more at all.
Without emotion... we could not be more than a thinking machine. We would no longer be alive.
@lilphil1989: I enjoyed it immensly as well
And hey, the last one would have been massive if he hadn't split it up.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
