all reasonable people,
Now we all look forward to JoVo's insights , meanwhile i feel
compelled to continue with my story about my own reason in order
to complete the picture i am trying to paint.
In my childhood, i was fascinated with science and particlarly
technology and i read most science fiction books, my favourite
being A.C. Clarke and the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey literally
blew me into a strange experience and also led to my interest in
artificial intellegence and i often wondered if it was possible
to construct a machine that far exceeded human intellegence.
( I believed that the purpose of existence was to discover all
the laws of science. What else could it be ? said my reason.)
Now just that possibility was staggering , which ment that all
scintific and technological problems could be solved in no time
at all, it ment unlimited power, i thought , an end to all
human problems and suffering !
What a joke that seems to be in hindsight, now that 2001 is just
around the corner ! Reality is far far more staggering ! How
little we know about nature and about ourselves ! How moronic it
is to think that we can conquer nature with laws of science and
then destroy it with technology and then GET AWAY WITH IT to
move on to other planets to keep doing this and meanwhile
entertain ourselves with Star Wars enroute.
Even primitive man was not this stupid !
But our Reason is convinced otherwise, because what a great thing
science and technology is ! How easy our lives have become ! And
we have faith that every problem can be solved with technology
because there is no proof otherwise ! So who gives a s*** about
morals ? Ain't got nothing to do with science and technology, pal.
Give your reason a break.
To be continued...
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