[extropy-chat] Faculty X

[Dirk Bruere]

Ned Late wrote:

>Sociopaths as well as Psychopaths?
>Dirk, your post is a sobering one, disturbing. But I
>would like to point you to the existence of those who
>DO understand in depth what is they lack, as well as
>  
>
I suggest that is *not* possible, any more than someone blind from birth 
can appreciate colour. No matter how well it is described.
Obviously there are degrees rather than the black and white picture I 
have painted, but that was done for the sake of illustrating the argument.

>knowing the words for 'it'; what effects are manifest
>in others; and, yes, tend to consider those who also
>possess the faculty in different form to be
>irrational, enslaved. However in the free falling
>atmosphere of discourse one has to make a stand or at
>least a precarious decision, so as to avoid the queasy
>sensation of being a weathervane buffeted by contrary
>winds. Intellectuals & savants have to make bad
>judgement calls all the time, under the pressure of
>time constraints.
>Beyond this my limited but hyperdriven imagination is
>nonplussed. I'm stumped.
>  
>
When I was about 30 I took LSD for the first time.
The experiences had two remarkable effects.
The first was the (later) realisation that previously I had not been 
*capable* of imagining  aspects of the experience. I literally had a 
deficiency that was only manifest when it disappeared.

Second, I ceased to be a rabid militant pain-in-the-arse atheist of the 
type that infests Transhumanist lists.

-- 
Dirk

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