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- From: mcvos@cs.vu.nl (Vos MC)
- Subject: Re: Wire-Head Sex, VR sex, Sex with Droids and Noids.
- Message-ID: <BzMCHu.2s0@cs.vu.nl>
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- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:58:41 GMT
- Lines: 45
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- Jeffrey Clark writes:
- Philip Nason Burt writes:
- : >Why is pleasure the main goal of human existance?
-
- I think I prefer truth. But that's only personal.
- :
- : >Some of my favorite moments in life are when I can experience the
- : >rawness of reality and know that my creater knows and understands that
- :
- : What's your mum and dad got to do with your pleasurable experiences?
-
- ??? What does this mean?
- :
- : >rawness. "Artificial pleasure"? Thanks, but no thanks. I will take
- : >reality and enjoy the pleasure when it comes...
- :
- : Depends what life philosophy you want to take. If the pursuit of happiness
- : (or pleasure)
-
- I don't think happiness is the same as pleasure. Happiness is pretty
- independent from pleasure actually.
-
- : without the harm of any other being is your life philosophy
- : then maybe a brain implant for pleasure might be the way to go (then again
- : addiction to crack might also be the way to go). However if you also want to
- : live long and prosper (possibly a selfish notion requiring a far greater
- : amount of the world's resources to keep you in existence) whilst seperating
- : the stimulations of pleasure over a long period of time then reality is
- : probably the way to go. Put in those terms it actually seems like a close
- : decision! Hmmmm.
-
- You only really talk about pleasure here. IMHO happiness is much more
- important than pleasure. Addictions may give you pleasure, but they'll
- never give you happiness. (sometimes I'm even worried about my computer
- addiction.) If pleasure's the main goal in your life, it might be the
- way, but as for happiness (or truth, in my case) definitely NOT.
- :
- : Jeff.
- :
-
- Great Greetings,
- mcv
-
-
- (mcvos@cs.vu.nl)
-