(November 2, 2014 at 11:57 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: I prefer to think of myself as a nest or a habitat for trillions of infinitesimal micro-robots, thank you very much.
All working in unison to create some sort of meta-robot that is self-aware of its experiences of pain and joy, yet somehow theists speak negatively of this understanding, as if we cannot value these experiences as much without belief in a quasi-comforting, anthroprocentric fairy-tale. The funny thing is that by devaluing our view, they're really just demonstrating their own insecurities.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
