WildcatMon, Oct 20, 2008 Gouranga: "us controlled by us"
interesting way to put it, how do you mean "controlled"? as I see it the common use of the word control is completely out of touch with the way 'things are'. our minds do not really have 'control' over anything, what we have , at the best of times, is something more akin to an interested observer . Note that even to be interested in that which we are observing about ourselves operating in the world is remotely connected to awareness and is more often than not a slight variation on our conscious experience of being 'us/me'.
as to 'life would be boring without death'.. allow me to disagree, death to me, is so banal and so expected that for all practical purposes it serves no purpose whatsoever to the conscious aware mind, other than to correlate a certain 'local-bio' end to that which is, to my eyes, endless (life).
immortality, whether technical in nature ( a la mind upload scenario) or otherwise is really nothing more than the removal of certainty, a break with inevitability giving the result of immersing our commonality into ambiguity and uncertainty, the very backbone of creativity and all life.
Gouranga: "us controlled by us"
interesting way to put it, how do you mean "controlled"? as I see it the common use of the word control is completely out of touch with the way 'things are'. our minds do not really have 'control' over anything, what we have , at the best of times, is something more akin to an interested observer . Note that even to be interested in that which we are observing about ourselves operating in the world is remotely connected to awareness and is more often than not a slight variation on our conscious experience of being 'us/me'.
as to 'life would be boring without death'.. allow me to disagree, death to me, is so banal and so expected that for all practical purposes it serves no purpose whatsoever to the conscious aware mind, other than to correlate a certain 'local-bio' end to that which is, to my eyes, endless (life).
immortality, whether technical in nature ( a la mind upload scenario) or otherwise is really nothing more than the removal of certainty, a break with inevitability giving the result of immersing our commonality into ambiguity and uncertainty, the very backbone of creativity and all life.