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helices · @helices
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The charm of a way of life is that it enables most people to renounce their freedom unknowingly

#liberal #johngray

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helices · @helices
117 followers · 5209 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

While the growth of allows humans to improve their material conditions, it also increases the savagery of their conflicts

#knowledge #johngray

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Queer Lit Cats · @QLC
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#jezebel #existentialriskfromartificialgeneralintelligence #philosophyofartificialintelligence #computationalneuroscience #technologicalsingularity #artificialintelligence #compaqcomputers #issoprivileged #businesspeople #raykurzweil #teslamotors #scottfisher #futurology #kevinkelly #technology #exmachina #kotomurai #elonmusk #johngray #samantha

Last updated 2 years ago
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helices · @helices
113 followers · 5033 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Among the virtues, is one of the most shaped by convention. For that reason it is among the most changeable

#justice #johngray

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Dziga Vertov 2 · @DzigaVertov2
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Open media

Caturday's book of the day just arrived today so I haven't read it yet. I don't hold Gray in high esteem but I'll give it a shot.

#johngray #catbooks #caturday

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R.C. Roberts · @rcwisehack
11 followers · 106 posts · Server mastodon.world
YouTube - John Gray Will Self Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death RSA

A fantastic video and discussion that ought to be listened to:

youtu.be/Yk7UOdUOOno

#johngray #willself #immortalizationcommittee #science #marxism #immortality

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

All our inquiries come to rest in groundless facts

#johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?

#johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

promise security - and release from the tedium of everyday existence. To be sure, this is only a confused fantasy

#tyrants #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

is not now, if it ever was, something that comes to us from outside. It is a part of the society in which we live

#terror #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

is an artefact of custom

#justice #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

In evolutionary prehistory, emerged as a side effect of language. Today it is a by-product of the media

#consciousness #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Like the Church in the past, has the power to destroy, or marginalise, independent thinkers

#science #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

We cannot attain the amoral of wild animals, or the choiceless automatism of machines

#selflessness #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Just like faith, reason must at last submit; the final end of science is a revelation of the absurd

#johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Modern begins when observation and experiment come first, and the results are accepted even when what they show seems to be impossible

#science #johngray

Last updated 3 years ago
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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

The time and place we are born, our parents, the first language we speak - these are chance, not choice

#johngray

Last updated 3 years ago
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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Modern begins when observation and experiment come first, and the results are accepted even when what they show seems to be impossible

#science #johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

They return under different names: torture as enhanced interrogation techniques, slavery as human trafficking

#johngray

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helices · @helices
110 followers · 4737 posts · Server mastodon.xyz

Rather than trying to escape , human beings more often become habituated to it

#violence #johngray

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