Re: Why the Fermi Assumption matters

  John Harshman wrote:

But that's the purpose of the "humans are apes" idea: to emphasize our relationships to other animals.

But it's not the relationship, as I pointed out. It's mere the
conventional means of categorization.

Secondly, it's not a "Truth" but a "Convention." It's a way that
we order things... our relationship to other animals. It's how
we put things together in our minds to aid on our understanding.

 

It's not real. Logically, it makes just as much sense to go the
other way:  "If we are humans than our ancestors were humans and
the LCA was a human and so on & so forth..."

 Taken to its logical conclusion, then, you would like to declare that all of life be considered human.

No. Taken with reading comprehension, I just said that the goal is to
communicate not act dogmatic. As a narcissist, you must control
conversations. They exist as an exercise in power, in your ego.
Calling humans "Apes," though not a reality of nature but a human
convention, was a barrier to communication with many creationists. And
you're a narcissist, you can't cede that as you need control.

That's actually logic. You really need to summon a healthy dose
of idiocy to not be able to see this. Just because we have
selected to group things a certain way does not mean that there
aren't other ways to group them. So why get all dogmatic in the
first place? I mean, in addition to the communications issue..

You aren't actually

Again, as a narcissist this is sacrilegious, "Ceding power to
others." To people who aren't a head case, there's nothing to even
argue.

Also, it's inaccurate. The LCA was bipedal and all in but absolute
certainty used tools for real, not some idiot "I'm using hammer
as a noun, instead of 'bang' or 'whack', so that manifests the
noun into existence!"

 What LCA?

It's a mystery!
That's it! That's the ticket! (You headcase!)

There seems to be no connection between

For you, the only thing that can matter is yourself.

You seem to be assuming that technology will stay at its current state forever. Why?

Let's test if you're saying someone of any value or merely expressing
your narcissism:  Assume technology does not "stay at its current state
forever"... look around. See aliens?
Whoops!  Your opinion is yet another expression of your narcissistic
personality disorder.
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