I’ve never managed to be friends with someone online in the absence of a strong shared activity. Sorry.
No problem, you can always try one more time, taking into account that moving around the world or even city is kinda restricted now. I live by myself in remote location, yet it doesn’t stop me from keeping in touch with friends, not due to activity but because they understand and accept me. Not sure i understand what do you mean by “strong shared activity”, we do share activity by deeply discussing lots of subjects here. Anyways, it’s up to you, imposing myself is not on my list of preferences.
Yeah, okay, technically the troll killed Hermione. Asides from that quibble, Voldemort killed Skeeter, a centaur, the real Quirrel, and a nameless Death Eater. He might have killed other people, but those are the deaths I can recall off the top of my head.
Thank you for pointing this out.
Ehh, kind of. Transhumanist might be the wrong word, but from an objective perspective, the sun is stupendously wasteful. Far better to stop the fusion reaction, extract all the hydrogen, and fuse it under controlled conditions to extract more value. Aka “tear apart the stars”. Same idea with the earth (which would, literally, end the world). This seems to be the intended interpretation, but you could be right—after all, Harry almost destroys the world at the very end of the book via unintended side effects.
Oh, i thought that was related to Hermione being witch-troll-unicorn mutant. I just though, that in case Voldemort had not brought her back, Harry in case of successful resurrection might had try to make her unable to die, even if she desires so. Agree, it is stupendously wasteful and it might be better to extract materials and create another one star under controlled conditions or surround sun with something that can absorb energy, but imho it is only from the perspective of the one who wants more energy and thinks that he’s alone and only, subjective, not objective perspective. Who knows how sun’s “wasteful” radiation and gravity affects everything around.
Also, if fear of death is the moving force for creativity, the transhumanist answer isn’t to keep death around. It’s to remove death, and find another way to solve creativity. Same with work expanding to fill the allotted time; that’s not a law like a law of physics, it’s a bug in our brains.
Removing death may well mean removing it’s opposite, birth. Also, sometimes this “bug” helps people to evaluate their actions and focus on more important stuff. Even the laws of physics, or rather their interpretation, sometimes turn out to be imperfect.
True enough. Voldemort was the first time I could really relate to a character but even I would consider him evil (and, more importantly, insanely dangerous).
True, he is evil, this is a book about the struggle between good and evil after all, as controversial as the struggle itself. It seems to me that the “interaction” to a greater extent reflects the essence of what is happening then “struggle”. Yet somehow he have forced “good ones” to unite and cooperate. Also by teaching several life lessons he played role of father for Harry. Probably, because Potter have lost his father and his step-father was not too good at parenting, nevertheless, was also able to pass on some important skills to his adoptive son. (Honestly, I find it difficult to answer who is more dangerous: Harry or his teacher).
What? Are you saying that once you turn a brain off, there’s no way to turn it back on, because everything is stored in the equivalent of volatile memory?
Wow. This is not what i said, but you might have a point. I said that structure of brain might define properties of energy it stores and this properties could mirror memory. And that destruction of brain might lead to release of this energy to the surroundings. As for your question, what do you mean by turn a brain off”? As far as i know, brain of people in coma or even frogs frozen in water not “turned off” and show slight activity. So i would call it hibernation. As for human brain freezing it will likely cause cell membranes to be torn apart by asymmetrically freezing water, as it increases its volume while turning into ice. In case of heart failure, stopping feeding of brain cells, after exhaustion of nutrients in the capillary system and intracellular fluid, will lead to the beginning of irreversible necrotic processes, it is matter of a few minutes (speed of decay depends on temperature). So yes, in some sense, brain is equivalent of volatile memory, since the life of its constituent cells strictly depends on the ability to convert ATP into energy and use of energy to communicate and store information. Also, I must confess that i don’t have official degree in medicine, physics or chemistry, it is just side effect of family traditions and my curiosity.
No problem, you can always try one more time, taking into account that moving around the world or even city is kinda restricted now. I live by myself in remote location, yet it doesn’t stop me from keeping in touch with friends, not due to activity but because they understand and accept me. Not sure i understand what do you mean by “strong shared activity”, we do share activity by deeply discussing lots of subjects here. Anyways, it’s up to you, imposing myself is not on my list of preferences.
Thank you for pointing this out.
Oh, i thought that was related to Hermione being witch-troll-unicorn mutant. I just though, that in case Voldemort had not brought her back, Harry in case of successful resurrection might had try to make her unable to die, even if she desires so. Agree, it is stupendously wasteful and it might be better to extract materials and create another one star under controlled conditions or surround sun with something that can absorb energy, but imho it is only from the perspective of the one who wants more energy and thinks that he’s alone and only, subjective, not objective perspective. Who knows how sun’s “wasteful” radiation and gravity affects everything around.
Removing death may well mean removing it’s opposite, birth. Also, sometimes this “bug” helps people to evaluate their actions and focus on more important stuff. Even the laws of physics, or rather their interpretation, sometimes turn out to be imperfect.
True, he is evil, this is a book about the struggle between good and evil after all, as controversial as the struggle itself. It seems to me that the “interaction” to a greater extent reflects the essence of what is happening then “struggle”. Yet somehow he have forced “good ones” to unite and cooperate. Also by teaching several life lessons he played role of father for Harry. Probably, because Potter have lost his father and his step-father was not too good at parenting, nevertheless, was also able to pass on some important skills to his adoptive son. (Honestly, I find it difficult to answer who is more dangerous: Harry or his teacher).
Wow. This is not what i said, but you might have a point. I said that structure of brain might define properties of energy it stores and this properties could mirror memory. And that destruction of brain might lead to release of this energy to the surroundings. As for your question, what do you mean by turn a brain off”? As far as i know, brain of people in coma or even frogs frozen in water not “turned off” and show slight activity. So i would call it hibernation. As for human brain freezing it will likely cause cell membranes to be torn apart by asymmetrically freezing water, as it increases its volume while turning into ice. In case of heart failure, stopping feeding of brain cells, after exhaustion of nutrients in the capillary system and intracellular fluid, will lead to the beginning of irreversible necrotic processes, it is matter of a few minutes (speed of decay depends on temperature). So yes, in some sense, brain is equivalent of volatile memory, since the life of its constituent cells strictly depends on the ability to convert ATP into energy and use of energy to communicate and store information. Also, I must confess that i don’t have official degree in medicine, physics or chemistry, it is just side effect of family traditions and my curiosity.