Personally I find having an inconsistent mind so intolerable that as far as I know, I’d face a choice between
A: blocking the aliens out of my head completely
B: Assimilating with them completely.
Correspondingly I have endeavoured to establish a rapport with evolution’s design deep enough that I can either
A: Consciously adapt it to the epoch of intelligent agency, for example, instilling within it a fear of solar collapse, a sense of the kinship linking all life on earth, and a cognizance of extra-solar hunting grounds for it to aspire towards. These might sound like rationalizations of noble goals we’d communally established post hoc.. well yes, they would either way, I think those goals were only able to be ennobled upon the favour of evolution’s old intents of surviving and spreading.
B: Truly accept as not horrible and perfectly normal, the subjectively horrible unacceptable things that would drive most people away from forging this kind of self-rapport. I’d give examples but these are by their nature hard to index, as if they’re communicated tactfully, they don’t seem horrible at all.
But then, I was drawn to this thread for a reason. I wonder if all my progress under A is just a mat of rationalizations and if the reality of Her Design is too ugly for me to publicly embrace, and if that very design has been built to anticipate that, and that is why our vocal selves are blanketed with confusion as to our intents.
Personally I find having an inconsistent mind so intolerable that as far as I know, I’d face a choice between
A: blocking the aliens out of my head completely
B: Assimilating with them completely.
Correspondingly I have endeavoured to establish a rapport with evolution’s design deep enough that I can either
A: Consciously adapt it to the epoch of intelligent agency, for example, instilling within it a fear of solar collapse, a sense of the kinship linking all life on earth, and a cognizance of extra-solar hunting grounds for it to aspire towards. These might sound like rationalizations of noble goals we’d communally established post hoc.. well yes, they would either way, I think those goals were only able to be ennobled upon the favour of evolution’s old intents of surviving and spreading.
B: Truly accept as not horrible and perfectly normal, the subjectively horrible unacceptable things that would drive most people away from forging this kind of self-rapport. I’d give examples but these are by their nature hard to index, as if they’re communicated tactfully, they don’t seem horrible at all.
But then, I was drawn to this thread for a reason. I wonder if all my progress under A is just a mat of rationalizations and if the reality of Her Design is too ugly for me to publicly embrace, and if that very design has been built to anticipate that, and that is why our vocal selves are blanketed with confusion as to our intents.