I loath drama. Lawlz is fine, drama is not fine. It’s either annoying or stupid or arrogant or all of the above. Obsessing over dramas is also annoying. However, this one exception is most definitely worth it. The Lost finale has an interesting portrayal frankly far better and more poignant than most anything else out there. You can skip through the whole series, and most of the finale, all you need is about the last 45 minutes or so. It gives probably one of the best nutshells to ponder on where and why q’s to life, but the cross/back-flashes remind you to ponder what now really is.
The “why are you here” – “better question why are you here” could very well be a lot closer to the way it works than we may give it credit. At least it tracks with the notion of a persistent consciousness. There’s an intrinsic assumption, that based on a finite now, then must be a discretely different, with a distinct cognitive state change. If the cognitive state though is (for all intents) formed at whatever point into a static state, then the assumption is that the sensory mechanisms are what vary. Of course those are highly contextual as well. A tangent here: at least at shuttle orbital elevations, actual gravity is not massively reduced, instead the ‘true’ context is one of inertial equilibrium in a reduced friction environment. Returned to the philosophical realm, do we have a methodology for logical evaluation of our sensory limitations?
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