"GRAVY FOR YOUR BRAIN!" – Conspiracy Theory (1997)
… and I can’t imagine a Christian that wouldn’t be, with Pascal’s Wager as a CAUTIONARY backdrop.
“Consequentialists” or Utilitarians or any “the ends justifies the means” freaks drool over the TROLLEY PROBLEM … but it’s a Skinner Box, it’s a torture chamber. As with the Milgram Experiment: it might just be Doritos for the brain.
BTW: great exploration of the “trolley problem” is the 1964 CLASSIC “FAIL-SAFE” …
“Of all the rabbit holes you can go down intellectually, Carl Gustav Jung is one of the DEEPEST and most arcane.” – Dr. Freckles
Was the psychic right?
Is there freewill?
Just let the fucker on the tracks call their loved ones to say goodbye … if there’s time. Maybe just live stream it … like George Floyd … too close to it? Eh, boyo?
“You are surfing on the wave of the universe.” – Dr. Freckles
“Respect does not mean approval.” – Dr. Freckles
“Spock would have been happiest as simply a software engineer. God forbid you enter that field AFTER 30, as a human, and KNOW the ‘squishy stuff’ that doesn’t fit into logic – then you are truly doomed.” – Dr. Freckles
Why is it views from low Earth orbit look like shit, invariably?
TBH:
The essential metaphysics of a “simulation universe” isn’t really that different from a “the universe is a manifestation of God’s will and thought” …
(first there was the Word)
(another name for a series of bytes)
If you can imagine THE DECEPTION, as being, as ugly and deep that a 10 billion year old universe can instantiate?
Then you are kind of groping in the world of Lovecraft.
(and we might simply be NPCs in an ocean of semi-deterministic bullshit)
(but there’s beer and cigs)
