<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jef Allbright</b> <<a href="mailto:jef@jefallbright.net">jef@jefallbright.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I found this YouTube video to be both fascinating and enlightening.<br>Also interesting how much of this I can relate to myself. Lizbeth<br>says no surprise there, it's an INTJ thing.<br><br>Highly recommended.<br><br>
- Jef<br><br><br>> Amanda produced her own video to communicate how she perceives and interacts<br>> with the people and things around her and posted it on YouTube. You can<br>> watch her video at<br>> <<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc">
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc</a>><br>> It was this<br>> video that led CNN to share her story. Read why she created her video at<br>> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/">
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/</a><br></blockquote></div><br>It's a fascinating video, whatever the actual details of Amanda's life. It raises the question, what is the meaning of life? People judge Amanda's life as abnormal or suboptimal because she seems to value things the rest of us don't and not value things the rest of us do. But if we gain control over our own minds so that we are no longer slaves to the subgoals and supergoals set by evolution, and the biological housekeeping functions are taken care of by a trivial subroutine, then who is to decide that spending your life blissfully flicking a stream of water from the tap with your hand because that's what you have decided to want to do (not necessarily because that is what you were born or raised to want to do) is less worthy than any other activity?
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br>