[extropy-chat] A vignette on incongruent points of view

[Colin Geoffrey Hales]

> One may ask,
> How can a being understand a new experience while retaining the old
> experience?
>
> A being may think:
> I live in the present state because I am derived from the past.
> While after some time this being decides:
> This conscious instance is momentary, reality is formed from a stream of
> chaos, jumping from random state to random state.
>
> Both are rational thoughts, but they contradict each other. Can we not
> understand both at the same time?
> One may understand both, but can only enact one's actions based on one
> belief.
> There are so many ambiguities in reality, that some ideas are never going
> to
> be held by consensus.
> The best we can hope to achieve is to context switch at the right time,
> afterall no one wants to be in a stagnant state for too long.
>

Put it this way.... the only complete autobiography of  'you' is your
whole life. Everything else is a condensed version. Throw away info to get
the condensed version and you end up with errors and ambiguities.... comes
with the terrtory.

Colin