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content/notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md

@@ -9,4 +9,23 @@ niel degrasse tyson said two things to live your life by
 - know more today than you did yesterday
 - limit the suffering of others
 
+Is the second one something we should all do?
 
+How do we define human progress?
+
+Transhumanism/posthumanism:
+- we limit physical pain by drugs
+- why not limit all pain and place ourselves in an eternal state of bliss
+
+This idea has a lot of implications: 
+- if we cant feel any pain, will we still be able to experience pleasure
+	- one arugment is that yes we will since people who are in almost constant pain still know they are in pain
+- Will we still be motivated to create new things, experiement, improve our condition etc
+
+
+Dream thought experiment
+- if every time you slept and had a dream you lived a ful 75 year lifetime in that dream
+- at first you would live a perfect life, you would have everything you wanted: money, sex, etc
+- but eventually this would get boring and you'd introduce variance and things out of your control
+- then after some time, you'd want to not know you were even dreaming at all
+- at this point, you are just living in real life

content/notes/095-are-we-living-in-a-simulation.md

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+---
+title: "095-are-we-living-in-a-simulation"
+aliases: 
+tags: 
+- podcast/philosophizethis
+---
+
+This question is becoming more and more popular. 
+
+breif note about descartes "cogito ergo sum". I think before I am. He systematically doubted everything and realised that the only thing he couldn't doubt was that since he was able to doubt, and he was thinking, he must exist. From this base be built up a sort of proof that the world is real. But it wasn't very good and he made many assuptions along the way.
+
+2005 paper about are we living in a simulation presented three options:
+1. we die

content/notes/philosophize-this.md

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 - [091-nietzsche-wilil-to-power](notes/091-nietzsche-wilil-to-power.md)
 - [092-nietzsche-pt3-thus-spole-zarathustra](notes/092-nietzsche-pt3-thus-spole-zarathustra.md)
 - [093-nietzsche-pt4-love](notes/093-nietzsche-pt4-love.md)
+- [094-a-look-at-suffering](notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md)
 -