Noctem wrote:
> The level-3 thinker is basically a happy existentialist. He realize=
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>that any serious consideration of knowledge, as opposed to seeing it as a
>game, when carried to its extreme will lead to uncertainty and eventual
My favourite qoute, well the only one, from the Qouran goes;
" Do not forget that life is just a game and a way of passing time "
Thats transcibed by memory from some book by Boris Vian, if anybody cares
I'll take a trip to the library and check it out.
>Regarding the "useful" categorization:
> I do not think that Mr. Brodie's use of the word "useful" is a
>throwback to pragmatism. Rather, I think that it is the best way of stating
>that a level-3 thinker chooses his memes on the basis of how he would like
>the world to be structured rather than on an outside basis such as logic,
>mathematics, or God. Of course, this does not mean that a level-3 thinker
>would necessarily avoid logic, mathematics, or God -- he would simply
>appropriate those concepts if he wanted them there... if he found them
>"useful."
Which brings me back to an earlier post of mine where I asked on which
grounds one meme was more usefull than another, or really it was about how
one chooses which belief one should pursue single-mindedly. Is there an
meme event-horizon these one-track-minds does not bother to check beyond?
Playing with yourself gets boring and one does have to get into the game of
life eventually, but...
Oh, I see. Creating more levels 3 to party with, and letting them pay for it=