Yes, I tend to agree with you on this. There are, of course the pantheists who suppose that all sorts of things are conscious, but which I hold is bullshit because otherwise anesthesia wouldn't make us unconscious, if you follow?
But I am smarter than the universe. Lots of people are smarter than me but the universe is as dumb as a sack full of rocks and at least I'm smarter than that. John K Clark -----Original Message----- From: John Clark <johnkcl...@gmail.com> To: everything-list <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Sent: Sat, Nov 29, 2014 2:38 pm Subject: Re: Edge: Myth of A.I. On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM, spudboy100 wrote: >> The word "purposeless" is purposeless unless there is a referent. >> Purposeless for who? Maybe the universe finds me to be purposeless but I >> don't care any more than the universe would care if I found it to be >> purposeless; we both just ignore the others opinion of and continue to go >> about our business. > But the universe is stronger than you are But I am smarter than the universe. Lots of people are smarter than me but the universe is as dumb as a sack full of rocks and at least I'm smarter than that. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.