Frederick Bott
1 min readSep 21, 2023

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Ben this is an interesting, even entertaining, seemingly harmless flight of thought.
But if everyone thought like this, nothing would ever have been achieved by us. What would even be the point of "intelligence", if it just came to the conclusion nature has no rules, no good, no bad, no purpose, only absurdity?
Our own existence has to become pointless if we think nature is pointless, absurd.
We don't need god or gods to at least see some order in nature.
But we have to believe life has a purpose to be in any way supportive of it.
We might even need some superhuman intelligence who might seem to have some god-like powers to lead us.
If your way of thinking came to be popular, a cult, you would maybe be leader of it, given you might be identified as the first to come up with it.
You seem to be doing the opposite of what I would say is constructive.
The odd person thinking like you isn't a problem, but a lot thinking like this would be a big problem.
The herd / systemic movement would be to rush to suicide, to make their belief true.
In that circumstance you would have led them, though not necessarily by example.
I am saying this as someone with a lot of experience in systemic analysis of motivations.
Or do you already know this, and be actually wanting that outcome?
If it happened, would that make you feel good and powerful? Would you lead the charge?
Or would you maybe do after the charge?

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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