Humans aren’t fundamentally anything. We’re highly variable, complex calculators, without much input validation on what we learn about or how we react to novel stimulus.
Exactly this. Studying behaviours and averaging it has reduced us into easily categorisable beings. The complexity just goes out of the window when the question itself has a design constraint that the answer is expected to meet. My idea is that even if there is an irreducible unit to which you can be reduced to—which I don’t think there is—the temporally emergent aspect of interactions with a larger whole such as the society that are combinatorially so large as to be intractable just do not allow for a siloed theory/inquiry to explain it all.
I’ve been using it too long to change now, but it’s kind of imperfect—it has enough historical and biblical usage that it’s not available on most sites, and far less clear than yours that it’s a reference rather than a given name. I do have a friend who tried to name his son “Yog Sothoth”, but he was overruled.
Humans aren’t fundamentally anything. We’re highly variable, complex calculators, without much input validation on what we learn about or how we react to novel stimulus.
Exactly this. Studying behaviours and averaging it has reduced us into easily categorisable beings. The complexity just goes out of the window when the question itself has a design constraint that the answer is expected to meet. My idea is that even if there is an irreducible unit to which you can be reduced to—which I don’t think there is—the temporally emergent aspect of interactions with a larger whole such as the society that are combinatorially so large as to be intractable just do not allow for a siloed theory/inquiry to explain it all.
Well said. I was caught up in the “what is good” trap and didn’t think to question how valid being fundamentally anything was.
I like your take on the question. It’s different than anything I’ve ever seen discussed about this topic, thank you!
Also, is that a Lovecraft reference in your username?
Indeed. ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.
I’ve been using it too long to change now, but it’s kind of imperfect—it has enough historical and biblical usage that it’s not available on most sites, and far less clear than yours that it’s a reference rather than a given name. I do have a friend who tried to name his son “Yog Sothoth”, but he was overruled.
Your friend is an absolute legend. My username on Reddit is Yogge Sothothe.
Dagon is without out a doubt the best. You too, are a legend.