@dilanesper@brent_waggoner@DanielParker_13 i mean is it not obvious that a non-spatial realm has no image to depict? so the sky stands for it because it shares the salient characteristic of being beyond reach
@Apples5149@whiteratxd@mean_field_zane I can see your point though I wouldn’t describe it that way. I think few people believe the mind is completely unquantifiable. I think more commonly people feel threatened by what they perceive as reductive to the point of being dehumanizing
@Apples5149@whiteratxd@mean_field_zane but yeah i agree with the general idea idk if I’d go as far as to call that dehumanization, maybe mystification or exceptionalism
@CaliTenDay@elleaory If someone tells you that you can be or have been replaced they’re trying to humble you. It’s not necessarily “offensive” but it also does not reflect hubris to be hurt by that
@cynugwudike this actually exposes your own self-centeredness. she wasn’t apologizing hoping to be forgiven for not “showing up.” Whatever that means. she was expressing grief and regret, you missed the point and made it about your ego
@Nathan07516751@KirillChernysh6@dee_of_e You’re the one saying I misunderstood you, not me. I feel I understood what you said, but what you said was incorrect. It’s now on you to either demonstrate the former or contest the latter.
@Nathan07516751@KirillChernysh6@dee_of_e I understood you just fine. If you don’t think so, maybe you should try to articulate what I’m missing instead of resorting to childish insults. unless that’s beyond you
@Nathan07516751@KirillChernysh6@dee_of_e No.. “You can become smart…” leaves open the question of HOW SMART you can become. “You can become arbitrarily smart…” answers that question. It says for all degrees of smartness, one can reach it, no matter how high. You also seem to think “arbitrary” means “superfluous”
@GenericAtHere@JuvenileBluster@Synthesecond2@VaughnPrime@timtheaton What are you even criticizing? This is like, trivial to see. We can have high standards for people in specific roles that don’t apply to just anyone, while also having grace for people in dire circumstances we’ve never experienced. There is nothing inconsistent about this
@GenericAtHere@JuvenileBluster@Synthesecond2@VaughnPrime@timtheaton There’s no double standard. You made a false equivalence between a pilot in a plane that is certain to crash and a cop in a vague stressful situation. People rightfully criticize the police when they abuse their power and neglect their duty, they aren’t being picked on…
@GenericAtHere@JuvenileBluster@Synthesecond2@VaughnPrime@timtheaton you’re talking out of both sides of your mouth, somehow it’s an unreasonable expectation of robotic perfection to want police to show restrained and lawful use of force but it’s not reasonable to show weakness in the face of certain death?