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Originally posted by ChaosMagician
I also believe aliens exist.... even if they are not as alien as we think they are. I have seen a classic "grey"... I have seen a stargate and I've seen what appears to be a hologram
you present your honest info, ask them to present theirs. It's really quite simple isn't it?
How did it become this complicated?
If the alien in the video is real and criminals attempted to trade him to the CIA then this video tape would not be on the internet
questioning the OP agenda, which they will never address...
It's not my design but I feel I'm pretty darn good at getting a lot of my thoughts and feelings across
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
why don't you stick to things you know
Here's an idea... why don't you remotely fix my jacked up computer? How's that for simple?
Why don't you stick to an area where you could actually be helpful ?
Originally posted by lowki
Truth be present moment now experience.
Real be agreed upon experience.
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
why don't you stick to things you know
That's exactly what I'm doing.
Knowledge be past-experience.
My university major was Cognitive Science,
specializing in Artificial Intelligence.
I've been meditating since I was 12,
So mind is familiar to me.
Here's an idea... why don't you remotely fix my jacked up computer? How's that for simple?
yuk. you probably don't even use Linux.
Why don't you stick to an area where you could actually be helpful ?
I'm creating content,
in the area I know most about.
I have lots of past-experience with alternative host-bodies.
Robots happen to be one of the host-species I intend on incarnating in future.
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
why robots?
why do robots need to be alive?
aren't there enough living things?
to perfect life itself?
If you can understand enough about living beings enough to replicate them precisely- yet improved which I'm sure is what is driving you, then why can't you simply perfect the understanding of living things first?
You would have to, which would be a big value in of itself to try to figure out how to incarnate something into a robot, but how is your progress in that? I'd truly like to know.
We don't seem to have much of an understanding of a lot of things now and you're already wanting to put souls into robots?
Don't you think that if people could freely incarnate into robots- if it were possible... don't you think they would give themselves all sorts of powers?
Concerning a living body,
is nothing sacred?
Maybe if you could pull it off you would be able to create something so complex that it in itself, would have living grace if it could interpret all things as reality and feel and truly believe that it was feeling.
Which side have you made any progress on? - Perfecting living systems or ultimate control of the spirit?...
because you would have to have both.
How are you going to combine the two?
How far have you gotten?
What kind of robot is it that you wish to create?
If you could have enough control over the spirit, why would you even need robots in the first place... you could control your spirit enough to where you wouldn't even need the physical world at all.
Describe your path to progress and the end which you wish to achieve.
Who gave you this idea and assuming that you could attach a soul to a robot,
wouldn't it be just as easy to transfer a soul into a perfected dna code? Why not just do that if you could transfer a soul... rather than have to construct something so meticulous piece by piece why not just perfect dna and let a living thing grow so that you don't have to construct it from the ground up? You have to learn how to transfer souls anyway.
but yes... you are definitely creating content. I'll give you that much. There's a fine line between what is real and what is not because maybe all sorts of things are possible, but the line is still there and it helps people from being mislead. Do you have any regard for this line?
Where are you lines of personal laws?
Seriously, can you draw a line?
Originally posted by Senz20
Is that you in your avatar?
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
ok.. assuming this were possible, why a robot?
if it's easier to switch out parts, it's not as vivid as an experience... because it is a simpler less feeling body.
is a living body not appreciated?
why reinvent the wheel?
transfer a soul into a living body. I wouldn't be someone you'd be marketing to... I think that would be a drastic leap in how it feels to be alive. if you could do it repeatedly, why not do it into a body?
I'm specifically asking you to tell me what the issue in that would be. Arrange your moral reasoning however you so choose outside of malicious intent, but tell me what is wrong with a life system as they are already designed? or design new ones but however, why robots... why not living things that can feel more than a robot can?
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
I'm asking you why living bodies are not sacred.
I didn't understand your reply but I think you misunderstood my question... I really didn't specify. Sacred things could be a lot of different things to a conscious... just you like you hold on to your own ideas. Some things are considered sacred. How you might regard life could be sacred, like philosophies you follow... and the experience of living in material form. It must be sacred... or you wouldn't be doing any of this...
from answers.com:
1. Dedicated to or set apart for the worship of a deity.
2. Worthy of religious veneration: the sacred teachings of the Buddha.
3. Made or declared holy: sacred bread and wine.
4. Dedicated or devoted exclusively to a single use, purpose, or person: sacred to the memory of her sister; a private office sacred to the President.
5. Worthy of respect; venerable.
6. Of or relating to religious objects, rites, or practices.
especially if higher densities are boring.
well, other than the fact it would be illegal, but let's pretend you can just break the law for the sake of creating a scenario. now what's stopping you?... gotta be easier than a robot for a comparable experience.
Like I said, you're reinventing the wheel.
why not at least do what seems easier.
it doesn't matter of others can do it, it matters if you can do it because you are the one trying to do the other.
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
Very intrigued by your comments 19 Dec in response to Chaos Magician, great food for thought,
I often tell people they do NOT HAVE a soul, they ARE soul; they do HAVE a body. Do you agree with that?
Or would you qualify it further?
My opinion is that if they understand that concept they are then able to exercise more control over their bodies for the purpose of healing, advancement, etc.
You have spoken of the limitations of a biological body and that a mechanical body could be superior. Given our current state of technology and industrial abilities I would agree a mechanical body could be stronger and more resistant to damage, but I will concede that on a more advanced plane a mechanical or robot body could be superior.
However, I am more concerned with the here and now. Do you believe our current bodies, ourselves, they could have much more advanced capabilities than we currently possess?
Would you agree that having a better understanding of our relationship between ourselves and our bodies could lead to advancement of those capabilities?
I feel our religious and social institutions may be intentionally blurring our understanding of that relationship. Opinion?
I do feel our bodies are "soul-traps" in that keep us completely engrossed in our physical senses so that in a very real sense and according to HOW we sense, we ARE our bodies. Do you feel there good reason to get past that relationship?
Or are we more effective being fully absorbed in our biological physical sensing machine, our "meat suit"?
I can fully understand why we may choose to to play this earthly game, it definitely has its rewards.
Also, I have a recent thread about my strange occurence in a bowling alley many years ago. I know what I experienced there and it is most easily explained away that I was being pranked, yet that in itself seems an improbable explanation. - www.abovetopsecret.com... - It is a very short thread, I was wondering if you might comment on that experience either here or in that thread, particularly regarding my OP and with regard to my last comment.
mind-over-matter sort of explanations, suggested my frustration about my poor bowling skills gave the emotional trigger to levitate the pins,
Thanks for your comments in this thread, they have given me a fresh perspective on a variety of subjects. -Eron
Originally posted by lowki
Originally posted by Senz20
Is that you in your avatar?
ya, this is me at a halloween party on Oct 30 2010
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Originally posted by ChaosMagician
ok.. assuming this were possible, why a robot?
if it's easier to switch out parts, it's not as vivid as an experience... because it is a simpler less feeling body.
Actually it can be a more-feeling body,
as I explained earlier feeling and electicity have a direct correlation.
Also sensations can be more complex as you can have more senses than a normal human, i.e. radio, sonar, radar
is a living body not appreciated?
are you appreciating the fact that robots are living bodies?
why reinvent the wheel?
what wheel are you talking about?
transfer a soul into a living body. I wouldn't be someone you'd be marketing to... I think that would be a drastic leap in how it feels to be alive. if you could do it repeatedly, why not do it into a body?
robots are also bodies..
we already incarnate in biological bodies regularly.
I'm specifically asking you to tell me what the issue in that would be. Arrange your moral reasoning however you so choose outside of malicious intent, but tell me what is wrong with a life system as they are already designed? or design new ones but however, why robots... why not living things that can feel more than a robot can?
.... okay robots are also living things,
due to being able to user higher amps,
can feel more than biological hosts.
I told you already that biology is insufficient for higher-density beings, like those over 6th density.
7th density is about movement, so have to travel to many different planets, star-systems and such. However biological bodies can't change quickly enough, to accommodate new environments, that may be found in these new planets or star-systems.
However it's still nice to keep memories in a solid-data-bank so you have some consistency.
Imagine cruising the universe, scouting out new planets, adapting host-bodies, and starting up tribes on various planets you visit, loads of fun and entertainment.
Originally posted by ChaosMagician
I'm asking you why living bodies are not sacred.
I didn't understand your reply but I think you misunderstood my question... I really didn't specify. Sacred things could be a lot of different things to a conscious... just you like you hold on to your own ideas. Some things are considered sacred. How you might regard life could be sacred, like philosophies you follow... and the experience of living in material form. It must be sacred... or you wouldn't be doing any of this...
you haven't defined sacred,
when you use the word you're defining that's an example.
from answers.com:
1. Dedicated to or set apart for the worship of a deity.
2. Worthy of religious veneration: the sacred teachings of the Buddha.
3. Made or declared holy: sacred bread and wine.
4. Dedicated or devoted exclusively to a single use, purpose, or person: sacred to the memory of her sister; a private office sacred to the President.
5. Worthy of respect; venerable.
6. Of or relating to religious objects, rites, or practices.
okay.. so sacred living bodies,
implies you'd like to use them in religious rituals.
As long as it's consenting and safe I guess it's okay.
especially if higher densities are boring.
higher-densities are more complex.
the spirit-world is geometrically simpler than the physical-world.
though more information is accessible from there.
well, other than the fact it would be illegal, but let's pretend you can just break the law for the sake of creating a scenario. now what's stopping you?... gotta be easier than a robot for a comparable experience.
not that I'm aware of..
Like I said, you're reinventing the wheel.
maybe reinventing soul-bots.
in m51 they fell prey to mass-consciousness,
with insufficent individuality,
and excessive slavery.
So that's why this time want to allow for individualized consciousnesses,
by having open-source operating systems which can be modified,
to allowing diverse reproduction of host-bodies through tribes,
and an economic system that values souls above materials via price-calculation.
why not at least do what seems easier.
I'll die from poverty of stimulus,
a bored soul leaves the body
if there is insufficient lessons for soul to learn.
Doing something "easier" like getting a job,
can actually be much more difficult,
as I'd be in excruciating pain with anxiety,
souls punishment for diverging from souls goals.
I walk on top a mountain ridge,
if I stray in either direction,
ice, rocks, pain,
and then crawling back.
it doesn't matter of others can do it, it matters if you can do it because you are the one trying to do the other.
I'm creating it.
btw ChaosMagic.
Randomness, Chaos or Shunso is a necessity of life.
if nothing new happened, no time would pass,
time is a measurement of complexity,
you're more complex every morning,
as it's you before plus you now.
If a world is too simple,
like if there are only rocks laying about,
then it's too boring for most human-level souls to incarnate,
unless they have a haven of complexity,
such as a technological base they maintain and replicate.
Having replicating robot tribes,
would add shunso complexity,
and diversify experience,
allowing more advanced incarnates,
and more opportunities for growth.edit on 20/12/10 by lowki because: reply to chaos magicedit on 20/12/10 by lowki because: funedit on 20/12/10 by lowki because: oct 30edit on 20/12/10 by lowki because: quotesedit on 20/12/10 by lowki because: ampsedit on 20/12/10 by lowki because: and rocks
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
Who says biological life has to be "sacred"? Some vegans feel that way and choose that lifestyle more for ideologically sanctimonious reasons rather than those of health, but I believe most of us have no problem with sacrificing a bovine to fill our Big Macs. Not sure how the cow feels about this though.
The "Life is Sacred" aspect to living gives us further impetus to continue the "struggle." Us humans are just so cute because we were converted hybrids that were never intended to continue our species, much like a mule that must be bred form a horse and a donkey to produce what some feel is a surperior animal, but that there was a little "cover of darkness" action taken to bring us into reproductive viability. This makes us somewhat an awkward fit for how we conduct our lives these past few thousand years or so; we are trying to do what we were never initially designed to do, merely re-modified to achieve, and our awkwardness has been the creative pulse for our art, music, and other forms of expression. It just makes our "life game" that much more interesting, no?
What you seem to be getting at is somewhat like the roles of the guitar maker or instrument designer and the virtuoso musician, one possesses the talent to design and build a superior instrument and the other to use it for exquisite expression. My career role as a technician was vastly different from the engineer that designed my equipment, I was the virtuoso and he was the designer. It is a symbiotic relationship, one dependent on the other, but their talents are clearly in different areas. Same with robot designer and operator. I don't need to be "gawd" to have a soul experience.
Lowki has past memory of other soul experiences and is perhaps ready to make a leap or a career transition. You, like myself it seems, is more interested in playing our current game and taking it to a greater level. Nothing wrong with that, I feel, but also nothing wrong with dabbling in other engineering fields or designing a superior interface.