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> Based on what?

Consciousness, downgraded due to cultural conditioning.

For example: sometimes climate change is a huge deal, other times it is just fine. Consciousness (2024) seems unable to (try to) be consistent, it's like it lacks an index or logic processor or something. Maybe there's a startup idea here somehow.



What if when climate change isn't a big deal you have the equivalent of a person using a free app with ads to tune your piano reporting to you, and when climate change is a big deal you have that piano repairman that can hit a key and tell you the string is rusted when struck too hard from experience.


And what if it is the same person in both instances?

Perhaps we will find out if Mother Nature shares your sense of humour.


It's not the same person.

Mother nature isn't a humorous process, it's physics.


What if the same Human thinks climate change is serious sometimes, but other times not, depending on the topic? Is this impossible?

Also: it is not possible to know if everything is solely physics based. Faith comes in many forms, and scientism is one of them.


I'm not accepting of your mysticism.


That's fine, and nor do I accept yours.

You and your kind are welcome to play the game as you like, and you will be rewarded accordingly, as you are as we speak.

Saaaay....how's that climate change thing going?

Anything new and exciting happening in the middle East these days?

Don't worry though, "it's all good". And that which isn't good will be fixed by science and democracy, "any day now". This is Known.

More seriously...for fun, I can think of a game where we would begin here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysticism

...and then each post links to other articles on the internet in an exercise to reveal which of the two of us has more genuine competence in this domain.

I am highly confident that I would be the victor in such a contest. Can you think of any games where you could outperform me, Surely Highly Rational In Fact Human?




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