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我的思考
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相对于没有高级感受的物种，人类的追求不在一个维度——自由平等博爱，心流空性成佛
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那相对人类，也有可能有更高维度的文明，脱离了肉身、脱离了能源限制等，追求别的东西？
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主要内容
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Chapter 1: truck/container of genes, survival software vs higher-mind
- higher mind posseses the skill of reason, imagination and communication. Imagination+communication creates long-term plan together; Imagination+reason creates empathy
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Chapter 2: Emergence tower of life, and human’s **variable **range on the tower
- the larger threaten, the larger “giant” human will form
- selective kindness: a toggle switch to show kindness selectively by target
- This is NOT higher-mind since higher-mind shows kindness ALL THE TIME
- 这解释了我之前关于“人类总是真善美的但团体为什么总无疑是邪恶”
- 我们的primitive mind不能适应当前社会
- 社会上的一些问题和个人问题比就像分形的关系——也是旧东西不能适应新社会
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Chapter 3: Motivation, Perception of Realiaty, and Story (narratives)
- On the one hand: Selective kindness cannot be extended to far-family so large human tribe breaks easily
- On the other hand: Human behaviors are subject to motivation, perception of reality and narrative
- Therefore, a good narrative serves like a super glue that glues mass-scale human tribe together
- A strong narrative shall make human tribe both *big *and mean. The latter is achieved by de-humanize “other” tribes.
- Delusion is fog plus the illusion of clarity
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Superglue of human society:
- tribal values: what’s good/bad, dehumanize the bad
- A queen bee: a society contains so many *small *families, but all could be closely linked to a same queen bee
- identity attachment:
- Make people identify themselves with a super-glue story
- human are bad at distinguishing psychological identity with physical body, so when the story (identity) is challenged, they fell physical danger
- Then, as long as there are enough people believing a story then it becomes true because non-believers are killed or pushed out of the group
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After all these years, the human world are still playing the power game, just in a much bigger scale
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Chapter 4 The Value Games
The power games is about using *force *to get what you want from others. The value games is about using everything but not cudgel.