From 817f70c6af4fdc36374d8809f19879d53457089c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jet Hughes Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 15:18:23 +1200 Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2022-07-26 15:18:23 --- content/notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md b/content/notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md index 4daf6e4b2..2076c2aad 100644 --- a/content/notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md +++ b/content/notes/094-a-look-at-suffering.md @@ -16,14 +16,19 @@ fyodor dostoyevsky says suffering is a necessary part of human life. How do we define human progress? Transhumanism/hedonistic imperative -- we limit physical pain by drugs +- we limit physical pain by drugs (this seemed unrealistic to earlier humans) - why not limit all pain and place ourselves in an eternal state of bliss +- we are the last of a dying breed +- the last to exist in the "darwinian pathology of conciousness" This idea has a lot of implications: -- if we cant feel any pain, will we still be able to experience pleasure +- if we cant feel any pain, will we still be able to experience pleasure? will life become numb? - 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 - +- Will we still be motivated (to make things better) to create new things, experiement, improve our condition etc +- "mental strength" (e.g., stoicism, buddism) might be unnecesary +- future generation will look at us the way we looked at e.g., plato (how different their world is) +- we base a lot of judgements (eg., what is progress) on limiting suffering +- deeper more complex emotions (pleasure)? Dream thought experiment - if every time you slept and had a dream you lived a ful 75 year lifetime in that dream