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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

My mind was just blown.

I've been contemplating, surprisingly only for the past hour and a half or so, some deep philosophy. I've also been reading up on some incredible (currently) theoretical science regarding things such as the uploading of an individuals brain into the mainframe of a robotic body or computer network, and other strange proposed phenomena. Let me give you a pretty straight-forward example of how complex some of the stuff I was reading is:
A Far Edge Party addresses one of the main problems regarding the theoretical human exploration of the stellar systems of a galaxy at some point in the future, here, I'll quote it for you:
FAR EDGE PARTY: One of the main problems of exploring the stellar systems of the galaxy even for very advanced civilizations is that a serial journey even at the speed of light would take so long time that most of the stars would have died during the journey. One solution is to parallelize the problem: the explorer travels to a new system, creates a number of copies of himself and sends them to other systems, while he remains behind exploring the system. After around 10 million years, when all of the galaxy has been explored, the explorers gather together at a prearranged place, and exchange or merge their memories ("The Far Edge Party"). This was proposed by Keith Henson as a possible method for a single individual to visit all of the galaxy within a reasonable time.
(Note: the above italicized text is not my own. It's not stated who the individual author of the page or definition is, and as such, I'll give you this link as to prove I have not taken credit for the text, as well as send you to the website which I have derived the information from. I hope that, if you choose to check it out, that you're just as pulled-in by it as I was: www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Mental/rules.html).

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The world is meaningless,

there is no God or gods, there are no morals, the universe is not moving inexorably towards any higher purpose.
All meaning is man-made, so make your own, and make it well.
Do not treat life as a way to pass the time until you die.
Do not try to "find yourself", you must make yourself.
Choose what you want to find meaningful and live, create, love, hate, cry, destroy, fight and die for it.
Do not let your life and your values and your actions slip easily into any mold, other that that which you create for yourself, and say with conviction, "This is who I make myself".
Do not give in to hope.
Remember that nothing you do has any significance beyond that with which you imbue it.
Whatever you do, do it for its own sake.
When the universe looks on with indifference, laugh, and shout back, "Fuck You!".
Rembember that to fight meaninglessness is futile, but fight anyway, in spite of and because of its futility.
The world may be empty of meaning, but it is a blank canvas on which to paint meanings of your own.
Live deliberately. You are free.