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Negative Entropy posted:I would bet that most intelligent life has ugly and checkered pasts and a penchant for domination, mainly due to gene-centered evolution which hardwires lifeforms to eliminate or subvert competing genotypes (i.e. different races, ethicities) and predators. Aliens might look and perceive differently but they're probably cunts just like us. quote:From The Killing Star by Charles Pellegrino and George Zebrowski don't read that book though it sucks
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Battlestar Galactigoon.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 17:16 |
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Negative Entropy posted:How so? The internet is a new form of communication invented by humans. It will change the nature of society and human interaction. It already is, I think. Look at us losers. What happens to humanity when we're able to quite literally access a hive mind?
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 17:32 |
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Wtf no denisovans in poll A and B you need a new book op cuz thisquote:Art began about 20,000 years ago. is straight up bullshit there are representational (Venus) statues going back 40000 years, and non representational art is probably millions of years old back to when the first pre human gay apes or hominids smeared ashes in their buttholes to attract more dicks and to explore the expression of their primordial I'm gay angst
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 17:41 |
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I can't wait for when I have to install adblock in my brain-plug so I can skip over all the commercials that pop up in my mind-stream.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 17:48 |
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nomadologique posted:Wtf no denisovans in poll A and B you need a new book op cuz this Yeah, I was wrong with that number. I didn't think the Venus statues went that far back though. Also, the first cave art is in Australia of all places, circa 45,000 years ago. I'm sure there's jewelry that's far older, and I guess you could count body paint as art. But I think art itself is the creation of humans. One of our defining traits.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 17:52 |
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i cant wait 2 die
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 17:52 |
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lol literally the history of western civilization with everyone else as recurrent side characters + the first people are white ??? racist bullshit
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:06 |
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40,000 years ago ffwd to modern day, we have air flight, space flight, microchips and nanotechnology ... then we produce this
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:10 |
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redshirt posted:Yeah, I was wrong with that number. I didn't think the Venus statues went that far back though. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels "35000 to 40000" so I overshot a tad E: oh wait poo poo there's also this guy http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_man That's cool about Australian cave art I didn't know it went back further than statues. There's no way art is (historically) exclusively human considering that contemporary non human animals (eg elephants) are capable of artistic creation.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:11 |
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tentative8e8op posted:I super hope our generation will be able to effectively live forever, like, upload my mind into a machine please.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:13 |
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Question: In this book I've referenced, they have a map showing the locations of discoveries of pre-humans. You have the neaderthals concentrated in Europe for the most part. Homo Erectus bones are all discovered in China and East Asia, and nowhere else. Is it logical to conclude that the differences in appearance among humans AND the differences in culture originally stem from different populations of pre-humans? Given the new discoveries of neaderthal and denisovian DNA in modern people, are we all, in fact, the "same"?
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:13 |
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redshirt posted:Question: In this book I've referenced, they have a map showing the locations of discoveries of pre-humans. You have the neaderthals concentrated in Europe for the most part. ask again in 40 years some of these questions mighht have some consensus
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:15 |
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nomadologique posted:http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Hohle_Fels "35000 to 40000" so I overshot a tad We have evidence of Neaderthal art - things they put in burials. But I recall a theory stating they adopted this behavior from humans. I don't think it's controversial to consider art uniquely human.
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Lawman 0 posted:I have the same book op. me too! my girlfirend picked it up in a thrift store for five bucks. we like to get really baked and open it to random pages. cue like 30 minites of silence except for page turning
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:16 |
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Claven666 posted:me too! my girlfirend picked it up in a thrift store for five bucks. we like to get really baked and open it to random pages. cue like 30 minites of silence except for page turning It's great. One of my favorite maps is the one showing the colonization of the South Pacific by the Lapita culture from New Guinea. Those folks were bad rear end - how the gently caress did they find Hawaii, for example? Boggles the mind.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:18 |
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redshirt posted:I don't think it's controversial to consider art uniquely human. I don't care about whether or not it's controversial lots of uncontroversial things have turned out to be bullshit and I strongly suspect this is one of those. Humans still, despite advance in science and philosophy, are struggling desperately to differentiate themselves from "lower" animals, and it's always painful to give up an age old marker of that difference.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:23 |
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nomadologique posted:I don't care about whether or not it's controversial lots of uncontroversial things have turned out to be bullshit and I strongly suspect this is one of those. Humans still, despite advance in science and philosophy, are struggling desperately to differentiate themselves from "lower" animals, and it's always painful to give up an age old marker of that difference. No animal is creating art in the wild. That some captured elephants make art is more a product of their human captors than the animals themselves. Did Erectus have art? There's no evidence. He had fire, and I'd argue fire is necessary for culture. So, maybe?
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:26 |
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tentative8e8op posted:I super hope our generation will be able to effectively live forever, like, upload my mind into a machine please. I hope your brain machine gets corrupted by someone uploading a ton of scat porn to it.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:31 |
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SirEvelynTremble posted:40,000 years ago being against modern art is not only anti-feminist and anti-gay, it's also very republican welcome to the 20th century, grandpa
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:32 |
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redshirt posted:No animal is creating art in the wild. That some captured elephants make art is more a product of their human captors than the animals themselves. I think it's an open question whether animals are making art in the wild. Whether or not elephants learn art from humans doesn't change their artistic capacity. I think humans are differentiated from other animals, and the evidence is all around us. But what exactly differentiates us is incredibly complex and as yet poorly articulated. This involves but is not reducible to our biological differentiation as a more or less stable and individuated species. I think any thorough articulation would involve art, but it's not as simple as "art is uniquely human," which is demonstrably false. I think it would require exploration of the variety of human relationships to art, like how much art we make, why we make art and what we use it for, what we think about our art, etc.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 18:46 |
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nice thread, Homo Aspergiensis
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 19:05 |
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nomadologique posted:I think it's an open question whether animals are making art in the wild. Whether or not elephants learn art from humans doesn't change their artistic capacity. it does, they are threatened with beatings to follow their handler's instructions who is pulling on they ears. they are literally just following a motion someone else is making. elephants aint got no art
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 19:06 |
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Poor elephants they should try being graphic designers lolololoololol
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 19:10 |
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we have guided missiles and misguided men - barack obama
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 19:32 |
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humanity will start as soon as the conglomeration of traits that make up your genome has been bred out of existence through a centuries long eugenics program, op
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nomadologique posted:I think it's an open question whether animals are making art in the wild. Whether or not elephants learn art from humans doesn't change their artistic capacity. I don't think it's demonstrably false at all. Your example of elephants making art is certainly not proof otherwise. Same with that famous gorilla that made art too. These examples of animal art are clearly created due to the promptings of their human handlers. I've never heard of an example of an elephant or gorilla making art in the wild, completely unrelated to humans.
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Mulefisk posted:being against modern art is not only anti-feminist and anti-gay, it's also very republican Agreed because you could infer that the simplicity if a lot of modern art counters the mass of information you receive every single second
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 19:50 |
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redshirt posted:I don't think it's demonstrably false at all. Your example of elephants making art is certainly not proof otherwise. Same with that famous gorilla that made art too. These examples of animal art are clearly created due to the promptings of their human handlers. I've never heard of an example of an elephant or gorilla making art in the wild, completely unrelated to humans. dolphins like to make funny rings that are pretty complex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT-fctr32pE
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:17 |
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I unironnically hope that one day we bring dolphins, whales, elephants, and the great apes with us when we go colonize other star systems.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:23 |
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Nature is art
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:25 |
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Lawman 0 posted:I unironnically hope that one day we bring dolphins, whales, elephants, and the great apes with us when we go colonize other star systems. As if we'll see off-world colonization in our lifetimes, friend. No, those dreams are for future, as yet unborn humans.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:48 |
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SirEvelynTremble posted:Nature is art Tangentally, is the lady in your AV getting it from behind in that picture? If not, what is going on there?
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:49 |
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redshirt posted:As if we'll see off-world colonization in our lifetimes, friend. No, those dreams are for future, as yet unborn humans. yeah
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:56 |
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Lawman 0 posted:yeah Blame Reagan.
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 21:59 |
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redshirt you should kill yourself, an action that is truly uniquely human
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 22:18 |
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Frostwerks posted:redshirt you should kill yourself, an action that is truly uniquely human I've been thinking about it, thanks for the reminder. It's true though, does any other animal commit suicide if completely healthy?
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# ? Aug 8, 2014 22:19 |
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i hope we explore the stars by uploading our brains to a computer and sending it into space since you won't need to worry about oxygen/food/water/etc and it would be a lot cheaper to have digitized humans explore the stars and play EVE online irl
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redshirt posted:I've been thinking about it, thanks for the reminder. whales
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OMFG FURRY posted:whales Isn't beaching usually a consequence of some sickness with the whale? Or just stupidity?
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