# Rational Metaphysics: The Equation for Space

**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rational-metaphysics-the-equation-for-space/34536
**Category:** Science, Technology, and Math
**Created:** [August 29, 2012, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rational-metaphysics-the-equation-for-space/34536 "2012-08-29T21:52:49Z")
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### Author: ![James\_S\_Saint](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@James\_S\_Saint](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/James_S_Saint)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/rational-metaphysics-the-equation-for-space/34536/5 "2012-09-06T17:11:04Z")

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> [@victorel21](#):
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> Humans as they stand cannot have that kind of power since we are all self interested. The pinnacle of human interaction is the balance between once needs and that of others, the only reason someone would care for someone else is because of the necessity we have of working together due to our limitations which creates a need to live in harmony. Nonethless if this computer was made, then the users wouldnt need others and emotions would never arise, with that power they would seek their own benefit even at the detriment of others.

I call it “Inculisive Self-Harmony”.  
It means focus on the balance of harmony both within and surrounding oneself.  
The reward is the closest that can be achieved to eternal joy and eventually, actually achieved.

Even with RM, it is never proposed that others are not needed. Quite the contrary in that the first temptation is to use others so as to obtain more power and diminish any potentially contrary influence.

The issue and concern is the realization that such a social structure has a limit to its size and grasp - a provable limit. Currently the thought is that at the right moment, so as to achieve “sustainable” governance, a very large portion of the population must be deleted, else the governance will not be able to maintain its supremacy, a supremacy that it actually had no business attempting to create in the first place.

The ideal is distributed governance, distributed intelligence (Democracy), not central governance or central intelligence (Socialism and/or Communism). But that democracy must be of a specific nature, else it all starts over again.

> [@victorel21](#):
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> Although, it would not be too bad because even knowing what will happen does not mean that you can control it, humans are in the humility era they will learn that they do have limitations, somethings are just impossible to do.

I very much agree. But what RM proposes, unlike many before it, is the opportunity to discover exactly what is impossible and why. The problem, as usual, is even RM requires that one actually seek what is possible or impossible before they presume, before they try to gain what is beyond their grasp. They see some progress and lustfully rush into it and forget about whether it was anything actually worth accomplishing.

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