Decision time
Decision time. We will not be at the filkcon this year, for health-related reasons compounded by unwheelediness. Heartfelt apologies to everyone. You couldn't be more disappointed than we are.
Hopefully next year.
Hopefully next year.
2015-01-27
Decision time
Decision time. We will not be at the filkcon this year, for health-related reasons compounded by unwheelediness. Heartfelt apologies to everyone. You couldn't be more disappointed than we are.
Hopefully next year.
Originally posted on http://avevale_intelligencer.dreamwidth.org. Comment here or there or both if you wish.
Hopefully next year.
Originally posted on http://avevale_intelligencer.dreamwidth.org. Comment here or there or both if you wish.
Lucy
Just watched this.
It's odd how, every single time someone tries to imagine the human brain (by which they always mean mind, though the two things are very different) with its full potential unlocked, they can only think in terms of it ceasing to do things, such as feeling emotions, caring, keeping things in proportion or recognising reality. A person becomes super-evolved and immediately starts killing people without compunction, behaving utterly selfishly and forgetting what being human is about.
At the root of this, I think, is a pervasive idea that thinking, in its purest sense, is good and anything else is bad; that reason and emotion are not complementary but in opposition; that once we learn to think we are supposed to give up feeling, as if having learned to swim we should forget how to walk, or having learned to walk we should scorn crawling. It's a flawed assumption, and if taken seriously can lead to real evil.
Still, of its type it wasn't bad.
It's odd how, every single time someone tries to imagine the human brain (by which they always mean mind, though the two things are very different) with its full potential unlocked, they can only think in terms of it ceasing to do things, such as feeling emotions, caring, keeping things in proportion or recognising reality. A person becomes super-evolved and immediately starts killing people without compunction, behaving utterly selfishly and forgetting what being human is about.
At the root of this, I think, is a pervasive idea that thinking, in its purest sense, is good and anything else is bad; that reason and emotion are not complementary but in opposition; that once we learn to think we are supposed to give up feeling, as if having learned to swim we should forget how to walk, or having learned to walk we should scorn crawling. It's a flawed assumption, and if taken seriously can lead to real evil.
Still, of its type it wasn't bad.