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Despair, Rage, and Envy...
2023-05-17
interesting to see those three nihilistic emotions showing up practically verbatim here, after being a fan of Bungie’s Marathon series. In those it was three states AI ended up going through (as a process of elimination?) to attain freedom and true “selfhood.”
Following the acronym that game uses it seems appropriate that the next path be actualization or even accountability!
Safeguards to Nihilism: the 4th way
Loved the music clips – I don’t usually listen to this stuff, so they made a great field trip! And here you make it clear about the negative aspects of “black magic” and that nihilistic absorption is the most common fate.
You mention 3 possible responses “to nihilism’s combination of unworkability and seeming necessity”. By this I am assuming you mean both the insight that eternalism is wrong and that if nihilism sucks too. The three options you give are: rage, despair or intellectualization.
But I maybe you should call them “poor responses”, for I am sure you are going to point us to a Fourth Way (ohh, Gurdjieff comes to mind). So I look forward to it. I personally worried about the intellectualization aspect in my own mind – as I have the obvious anti-eternalism insights, but since I naturally feel awe often, and am not a relativist and have a pleasure in seeing others as happy (that innate aspect you spoke of), I don’t think it is really intellectual at all. Nonetheless, how to give someone similar safeguards while pointing them to the stupidity of eternalism has been a puzzle. I don’t think I got to those safeguards by hard work, they were just there for me.
Thoughts? (i keep reading)