What book are you reading?

[Developereo]

The trouble with Asimov is that with I, Robot and the Foundation series, he covers so much territory that there is little left over for others.

Asimov didn't really get into aliens too much so that's a vast area of science fiction he left mostly untapped.

 

[panzerfaust 3]

What is the value of a single human life? How does one measure the value of a life? Can such a value even be measured? If it can, by what criteria do we measure it?
@RescueRanger @Joe Shearer @Nilgiri @VCheng @Oscar @Developereo @r3alist

You want to know the truth?

here's what I have found after searching for years(I am not old )- we are nothing more than (overly complex)walking chemical reactions! That's the reality of life !
And what importance do you think chemical reactions have?

I wanted to post so much more but let's leave it here

 

[Developereo]

You want to know the truth?

here's what I have found after searching for years(I am not old )- we are nothing more than (overly complex)walking chemical reactions! That's the reality of life !
And what importance do you think chemical reactions have?

I wanted to post so much more but let's leave it here

You could take it even further. Chemical reactions are just the macro view of electron-photon interactions. Everything boils down to an electron absorbing a photon or emitting one (Quantum Electro Dynamics, Feynman's QED).

 

[panzerfaust 3]

You could take it even further. Chemical reactions are just the macro view of electron-photon interactions. Everything boils down to an electron absorbing a photon or emitting one (Quantum Electro Dynamics, Feynman's QED).

Why leave it here ,Let's take up to the quarks!

But you must understand I am dead serious about it

 

[Developereo]

Why leave it here ,Let's take up to the quarks!

Quarks are only relevant inside nucleons: protons and neutrons. Quarks play no role in electron-photon interactions which underlie all of chemistry and biology, as well as most physical phenomena.

But you must understand I am dead serious about it

Your view is analogous to the view in the book The Selfish Gene by Dawkins where he argues that we are just lumbering robots engineered by genes to replicate and propagate themselves into perpetuity.

 

[panzerfaust 3]

Quarks are only relevant inside nucleons: protons and neutrons. Quarks play no role in electron-photon interactions which underlie all of chemistry and biology, as well as most physical phenomena.

Your view is analogous to the view in the book The Selfish Gene by Dawkins where he argues that we are just lumbering robots engineered by genes to replicate and propagate themselves into perpetuity.

Looks like I need to read this book- the selfish gene
That seems to be the only logical conclusion about the purpose of life

 

[Joe Shearer]

Asimov didn't really get into aliens too much so that's a vast area of science fiction he left mostly untapped.

Yes, quite so, but he covered the future of Mankind fairly thoroughly.
I think Foundation has seminal value. I think at some date in the future, there will be a gnomish professor in a room sunk deep into the earth of some yet uninhabited planet, carefully, after fifty years of study, rubbing out a particular symbol on an equation that covers the entire vast screen.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Looks like I need to read this book- the selfish gene
That seems to be the only logical conclusion about the purpose of life

Well, yes and no. Have fun, and give us a book review.

 

[panzerfaust 3]

Well, yes and no. Have fun, and give us a book review.

Okay , but what do you think about my theory?

 

[Joe Shearer]

Okay , but what do you think about my theory?

I have no thoughts about it. Let the wise men comment.

 

[Nilgiri]

I compare her command of English to Karen Carpenter's command of the voice: for the greats, mere technical perfection is just the beginning.

You have very good taste. I am biased towards Karen as my parents are 99th percentile fans of her....so I grew up with her voice....but I always enjoy when someone brings up Karen Carpenter spontaneously somehow, as very fond memories stream in along with her angelic voice.

 

[Nilgiri]

Looks like I need to read this book- the selfish gene
That seems to be the only logical conclusion about the purpose of life

I don't think so, as if humans are entirely selfish, you wouldn't even exist to enquire and investigate purpose and meaning. You exist from a long integral of social surplus capital that has developed by no small effort by our ancestors. It cannot be taken lightly.

Selfishness obviously exists and has some known utilitarian purposes, but its viewed negatively by the species collectively for a very long time for a reason.

 

[Nilgiri]

I don't think so, as if humans are entirely selfish, you wouldn't even exist to enquire and investigate purpose and meaning. You exist from a long integral of social surplus capital that has developed by no small effort by our ancestors. It cannot be taken lightly.

Selfishness obviously exists and has some known utilitarian purposes, but its viewed negatively by the species collectively for a very long time for a reason.

Kural 972 for example:

பிறப்பொக்கும் எல்லா உயிர்க்கும் சிறப்பொவ்வா
செய்தொழில் வேற்றுமை யான்.

Roughly translated:

Men are born equal, their differences come with their deeds.

 

[Nilgiri]

Thread bump time (see who's around etc)

@RescueRanger

 

[RescueRanger]

Thread bump time (see who's around etc)

@RescueRanger

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I am a real fan of his work.