I totally love the Huxleys!!! When I was 15, I wanted to hunt down and marry one… Oh Thomas Henry and his iron will to flaunt society… Aldous and his mescalin-fueled orgies because of his bad luck in marrying a lesbian when he 19… Julian and his microscope and myosin heavy chains… Andrew and his cephalopodiae and wacky electrical theories of mind… What a bunch of fantastic geniuses! Can the superintelligence resurrect them? PLEASE!!!! Can it throw in Yeats and Keats while it’s at it??? That would be awesome. That would be a dream come true.
This is a cool post. I like hearing how smart people evolved. We need more such evolutions.
My first intro to ev psych was as a little girl (7?), listening to my friend’s psychiatrist father, whom I met at the Unitarian Universalist church, talk about Carl Sagan and the cosmos… Got me obsessed with the X-files too, even that young. My first revelation of where my mind came from was at age 12 when I read “Blueprints, Solving the Mystery of Evolution.” Actually… No, it was when we were discussing Greek mythology in social studies… I thought, “Gee, Man invented God. What else could he do with what he knew at the time?” Then again, I had never believed in God, I just realized why We invented Him. Incidentally, I learned what sex was at the age of 2, when my parents showed me the video ‘Where do I come from?’ Great fun. I recommend it to all.
Eliezer: “And if, in the meanwhile, it seems to you like I’ve just proved that there is no morality… well, I haven’t proved any such thing. But, meanwhile, just ask yourself if you might want to help people even if there were no morality. If you find that the answer is yes, then you will later discover that you discovered morality.”
I totally love the Huxleys!!! When I was 15, I wanted to hunt down and marry one… Oh Thomas Henry and his iron will to flaunt society… Aldous and his mescalin-fueled orgies because of his bad luck in marrying a lesbian when he 19… Julian and his microscope and myosin heavy chains… Andrew and his cephalopodiae and wacky electrical theories of mind… What a bunch of fantastic geniuses! Can the superintelligence resurrect them? PLEASE!!!! Can it throw in Yeats and Keats while it’s at it??? That would be awesome. That would be a dream come true.
This is a cool post. I like hearing how smart people evolved. We need more such evolutions.
My first intro to ev psych was as a little girl (7?), listening to my friend’s psychiatrist father, whom I met at the Unitarian Universalist church, talk about Carl Sagan and the cosmos… Got me obsessed with the X-files too, even that young. My first revelation of where my mind came from was at age 12 when I read “Blueprints, Solving the Mystery of Evolution.” Actually… No, it was when we were discussing Greek mythology in social studies… I thought, “Gee, Man invented God. What else could he do with what he knew at the time?” Then again, I had never believed in God, I just realized why We invented Him. Incidentally, I learned what sex was at the age of 2, when my parents showed me the video ‘Where do I come from?’ Great fun. I recommend it to all.
Eliezer: “And if, in the meanwhile, it seems to you like I’ve just proved that there is no morality… well, I haven’t proved any such thing. But, meanwhile, just ask yourself if you might want to help people even if there were no morality. If you find that the answer is yes, then you will later discover that you discovered morality.”
This is beautiful. It is, more importantly, True.