The Philosophy Thread (reminder: philosophy is not politics, religion, nor conspiracy theories)

These past few days doing my scientific thought experiments with mathematics and then applying mythology of different cultures all using chatgpt. Was an absolute mindfuck…in the best way.

Even though there are probably some errors…I am pretty content with the findings..

Greatest intellectual mind brain boner of all time…

And that’s saying a lot because thicc butts weren’t even involved. Lol

Reality is unified without being uniform, it is both chaos and order simultaneously as functions of each other…existing as an symmetrical asymmetry of balance and impermanence of which constantly transforms, as subsystems evolve simultaneously thereby affecting greater systems in relationships beyond themselves.

Socialism or capitalism…

Answer is neither

Because people gotta learn how to be independent and rely on themselves..

Socialism or capitalism is a framework for societal cooperation…but any system will eventually fail when people are unable to be self sustaining and coexist.

This feels contradictory. Can you dig into that a bit more?

I feel that the second is more true, ie systems require some amount of cooperation and trust in order to work. I think I’ve written about this before, but before society you couldn’t really have a group of people larger than about 100 or so. Everybody has to know everybody else without some social hierarchy or some system that helps organize people into smaller functional units (classes, families, guilds, etc) with heads that know each other. People have the capability to “know” about 100-150 individuals on a deep level throughout their life. That’s it. Any bigger and you need to abstract the relationship into a simpler form. Employers, schools, governments, and religions all have to contend with this. How do you make someone you’ve never met who’s been called to Jury Duty to hear your case and convict the guy that assaulted you? Why do they care at all?

That’s the question that society has spent about 10,000 years trying to answer. Nowadays I think it’s different things to different people. Religion. Status. Power. Wealth. It all sits on top of this question though.

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It does seem contradictory…but a community is somewhat built by self sustaining individuals. It’s because that they can take care of themselves, that they can also create as well as be the foundations that support communities and society as a whole.

Every individual is a Lego…

A single Lego can be on its own…

But also a Lego with other Legos can build something…

If a Lego is broken then what is built from the Legos isn’t complete or fully functional in what it was built for.

Ironically this idea is present in both Malcom x autobiography as told by Alex Haley…when they talk about the goal of the nation of Islam to uplift people by building community and also in web dubious essays and articles.

In terms of society and economics…if the farmer is unable to farm their land and produce crops due to incompetence…than the community has to resort to other sources for food…or the community starves…if the farmer can’t produce crops they cant trade for the things that they need to survive. If the person they trade their crops to, solely relies on the farmers business…they cant survive either…and their family becomes poor…so maybe the children start doing criminal stuff to earn money…and that causes issues in the community…and the community starts to suffer…because people don’t feel safe…and when they don’t feel safe or trust each other the community falls apart. And when that happens the community resorts to social darwinism.

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