Post by gw on Nov 30, 2020 5:29:01 GMT
Nov 30, 2020 4:05:13 GMT gw said:
You got most of it. As for the 'perfect world' I don't know for sure whether it exists or not. I do know, or at least assume through observation, that by the standards of perfection that we live a very imperfect world. If there is a multiverse with universes of varying degrees of perfection then we'd likely not be anywhere near the top. If we assume that there is a multiverse then if one were to take out the imperfect ones then most of the possibilities would not exist. And yes, the choices one could make would be very limiting to us because there's not any alternatives to an ideal choice or that there's multiple choices but each one is essentially meaningless in a way. That would be also because we need imperfection but in limited amounts, just enough so that we don't need to worry about failure to be perfect since complete perfection is unachievable so we needn't strive for it, but also varied degrees of imperfection so that one choice is better than the alternative and we thus have a reason to make the best decision we can. A perfect universe would be like the town in the movie Interstate 60 where there's a drug that makes you blissfully happy but you just end up craving the drug and don't have the freedom to feel happy as a result of good choices. I'm having trouble expressing an important thought but I'll give it a try: There is an importance of choice that exists due to the complexity of the outcomes due to compromise in a less than ideal universe, and that lack of ideality gives us a purpose beyond mere abstraction by giving us a sort of sensory and conscious quality that allows us a perspective that a more perfect one needn't have. I'm not sure that I phrased that well enough, and I suspect that it may be a very flawed idea even if phrased correctly.
The disconnect between me and you is that you find more meaning in it than I do. I often make bad choices, knowing they are bad choices and just not caring. There is of course reasons for why I do this, but I am not willing to get into that right now.
I am hanging on to the little bit in this life that I give a shit about.
Maybe I am off base here and this has nothing to do with what you are talking about.
