Originally Posted by gogodoll
the reality of our human condition reminds us at every breath that we are limited by our restricted senses and a prisoner of our fragile bodies .still we never give up wanting to do more , to know more and to simply be more.Now how do you explain the condition of being human?
Loaded questions such as this that can cause confusion between emotions, belief, condition, and reasoning. The desire to know more and simply be more may lead to trans-humanism contemplation because of the physical and mental limitations for sapient beings such as us.
Here are some concepts (but not everything) that may pertain to the human condition:
- Being aware of our own physical limitation, and yet our minds that presumably has a higher level of cognition and reflective nature that can allow us to speculate beyond those physical boundaries. Combine that with a lucid dreaming forum such as this, there’s all sorts of individuals who dive into consciousness exploration in their non-lucid and lucid dreams where they may become aware of more cognitive processes which may lead to further questioning.
- Our gregarious nature can allow the probability for individuals to be either malevolent or benevolent. Of course, there’s going to be people who have beliefs in soft and hard determinism, and combine that with the arguments of antinatalism, nihilists, fatalist, and other impasse philosophies, we can get into semantic gymnastics here (e.g. free-will and trying to find some compatibility at an individual and aggregate level (i.e. communal, universal).
- Our driving forces, entrenched predispositions, conceptual schemes, upbringing, personal dispositions, and such. We may contemplate on debates with whether or not there’s another life or if there’s a supernatural entity and those who debate about it (e.g. through ontological, teleological, and cosmological means), but we are still aware that we’re mortal.
- Then there’s the question on how we would distinguish ourselves from other species, and whether or not certain abilities (e.g. metacognition, cognition, pattern-recognition in a complex reality) are exclusively reserved for just us. Especially when there’s cases of other animals (metacognition in rats) that are non-primates that can be reflective of their own mental processes. If there’s a probability of self-reflective entities to figure out their own mental processes to survive, it would make philosophical discussions like this look like we’re in some kind of petty angst or something.
It's just a matter of disposition.
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