Let's backtrack. In Production Of Anti-Matter, we summarized a conversation between Venator and Lirion but missed one part.
Lirion says that, without more energy from anti-matter, the Lunarians at Proserpina will be imprisoned in sameness. Venator asks whether they have:
"'...no inner resources.'" (p. 69)
Lirion scoffs. Machine intelligence admires its own:
"'Abstractions, mental constructs...'" (ibid.)
- but that is not:
"'...for living creatures...'" (ibid.)
Like passivity versus violence, this is another false dichotomy. Organic intelligence encompasses pure mathematics and its application to the empirical universe and everything else: emotions, social interactions, artistic creativity, spirituality, whatever else we might think of. Stop splitting up the truth and fighting over the parts!
A parable told by Jiddu Krishnamurti:
The Devil's friend saw a man picking up a small piece of the truth. The Devil said, "It doesn't matter. He is only going to organize and systematize it."
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This is interior vs. exterior. I'm for exterior. Inner-focused individuals tend to be narcissistic.
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