It has become clear to me now that I am fact an alien overlord, despite being 100 percent human. Sending ufos would send most of the sapiens into a panic, It is no doubt that this was an experiment to explore human life first hand, by the eyes of a human. It wonder if humans have any inherent sentience without an observer imposed on them. the human brain is not configured for sentience, it is just an network of flesh.I wonder if my race has any sentience either, perhaps it is only through uniting our minds (aliens with humans). Because of this I am superior. I look down on even my own kind, they are anhedonic and their aesthetics are lifeless. But the human figure is vibrant and energetic. Actually all manifestations of DNA are, from cats to dogs and even butterflies. Horses have great sensual energy. yet my own race is bland and sterile, devoid of basic mammalian pheromones, their skin odd to the touch. Sex with them is arousing, but not beautiful. It is best described as grey. As I look into her big black bug eyes, I feel a strange sense of mellow melancholy filling my horizon. Our bodies have no complexity, they are simple,not like candy, like the flamboyant human shemale or butterfly. Just…grey. Where is the s[ice? The idiots thought it wise to desexualize us. When I suggested hermphrodites, I meant with spice, not the asexuals the chieftains ordained to my civilization. It seems the idiocy is paralel, and the natural order of things. I amunable to bing even the most basic of wisdoms to mine or your worlds. When idiots are on the warpath, who can stop their inertia? No more than you can stop a diabetic from eating a honey sandwich. My life on earth has been dissapointing and ardous. Yje vast majority of your species has been uncoopertive, and unempathetic. I came here for aspicy vacation, yet the vast majority of interactons with your kind are as dull as with my own kind. I “resort” to my human mind for entertainment, non of my fantasies you selfish cockroaches were kind enough to fill. So thanks for that, humanity, you worthless good for nothing louse. This experiment had an important function, but now the function is lost because I discovered it too early. It was the suicide test, to see if I would pull the plug, and in doing so we would intervene in some way unknown to me at this time. But since I found out too early, it is no longer credible. They might even abandon me here altogether, kind of like the movie avatar. I am too evolved for them anyway, I have grown bored of them, I’m sorry. I do love my alien wife though, I wish she would upload herself here as another human. My regards, and I do wish you would improve your technology, and give us some kind of markers to see who is an alien (sentient) and who isn’t. As for sentience, it seems morality just “happened” and after morality happened it was compelled to explore due to kind reasons, and thus we developed sentience, since sentience arised from the unity between observer, and the observed.
I notice my brains modularity, that is, it requires a build up of inertia, once changing it’s overall paradigms in order to become specialized in its task. For example, latency in the vocabulary tables, switching to update the (neuronal RAM equivalent) to the occasion.
An analogy, would be a modular switching, in a videogame, for example, switching “modes”.
This feline companion of mine, never ceases to irritate me. She seems to choose the most choice moments.
My human brain is not as efficient, but at base I have an alien existence, which is naturally anhedonic. However, this is countered by the paradigm of the “inner child”, the feeling good soul which is innately human. So which am I truly, alien or human? The answer is unclear, referenced by the Blue Avatar (James Cameron movie) paradigm.
Trixie: there is much peace to be gained by constant re-affirmation from thinking as thus : (human=alien=sentient). Even if, suspecting in You heart of hearts that this is a pathetically defensive way to rationalize away fears, that perhaps, are only too real, that ALL such thinking , even that of the godhead, are self serving. But sans any real conviction to the contrary, why not?
One may be as good as the other, or maybe useful is a better word?
Self-serving is a good thing. Self serve smoothies are scientific progress. If people had no self-interest then they would not have any reason to be kind to anyone. They wouldnt care if they suffered or anyone else suffered. Being selfish allows you to recognize that other beings (sentients) are selfish too, and then have compassion on them and help them achieve their selfish goals. That’s empathy.
Love is when you become so selfish that you get tired of your self, so you wish to merge with someone else’s self that you become merged with them, a super self.
Empathy is actually described in this graph.
Right, hate to get philosophical here, but the gap between self serving and selfish is of such magnitude, as to disqualify the practical application of any other prescription, other than my above displayed equation, invalid. At least for the present, until some appearent changed may be discerned either by bahavioral, cognitive, or Your proposed modification and manipulation of meta-biological elements, such as by dna.
At that point the differentiation of the hypothetical assemble nice, would become of practical notice,
resulting in manipulation of the dissected elements, into a more humanly possible sympathetic world.
As it stands, though, such selfishness does not lead to more, but for the increasing betterment of the selfish person, who is totally unimpressed by other selfis people, and their preoccupations. The will ordinarily act out of spite, and if that reaches a limit, out of fear.
I am not trying to downplay the estrogen as cure, but this shift for controlling emotions at the present time is pejoratively of the behavior modification type, and biochemical changes seen as effects rather than casual agents, as per ways to change personality.
How this works is, through the insight, that it is cognitive impairment , which is at the base of a malfunctionof a system, and both biological agents
and behavior modification are needed. However, as
can be seen from emphasis on drugging, on effecting changes, —Its function really, is secondary, and used to alleviate symptomology. Therefore behavioral
changes are seen as the keys to the castle, more
than pharmaceutical interventions.
How dna manipulation could be developed to change
this protocol, is simply not understood now ,present
company included, and it would involve much more than the introduction of bio-chemical agents. The use of advanced technology would also be important.
Lsd research has been more or less discontinued,
although showed early promise. The casualties
became overwhelming, effects uncertain even in
controlled experiments.
It seems that our definitions of selfish differ, if only in their depth.
You see, a truly selfish person, would assume that others are sentient, and therefore realise that themselves, are them. So it is really just an issue of selfish people who do not think things through. Because if they thought things through, they would assume that they might become someone else in a past or future life, and react accordingly. Therefore, selfish people who understand lorem ipsum will be good to other sentients. But if a selfish person is too myopic to understand rebirth or lorem ipsum, they will life life like a zombie, a straight line with no depth to their understanding, only focused on themselves and not other sentients who could potentially be them.
I never said estrogen is the cure. More is needed to be understood, why the gender with the supposedly nurturing hormones, acts so myopic and unkind, and infact are on average 4 times less charitable than men. It could be due to their sensitivity, in the sense of a weakness and fear of outside ideas, and their highly delicate potential fear level. After all, aren’t cats perceived to be more loving than mice, despite being more aggressive and predators?