Will 'Understanding' be Extinct by 2050?

To the extent that city people are a few bits of gristle short of a hamburger I would go along.

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You have a positive talent for coming up with the most egregious tripe. Define "understanding." Just how the hell do you equate "understanding" with "the need to create." God, this is some of the silliest stuff you've come up with, and that is quite an accomplishment.

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Re: Will 'Understanding' be Extinct by 2050?
In that case, based upon the only imperfect conception of "understanding" provided in that forest of semi-mystical gobbledygook, in response to this question:

coberst wrote:

No, i don't agree. That's the silliest question i've heard in a month of Sundays.

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Setanta

I suspect most people never have the experience of understanding until their schooling is past. As an adult understanding is possible but it requires curiosity, caring and a great deal of effort. I suspect many people never have that experience that Carl Sagan called "a kind of ecastasy".

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What you suspect (a very elitist and condescending "what" it is) is no plausible basis for claiming that "understanding" will cease to exist within 50 years.

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I'll be 90 in 2050. I suspect my understanding will have slipped a bit.

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I'll probably be dead, and unlikely to understand anything. If i were alive, i'd be 100 years of age, and unlikely to care if i understood anything.

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"Understanding" it might be argued is currently experiencing exponential growth.

Consider Carl Sagan's "understanding" vs Aristotle's

or my "understanding" vs a similar person just 200 years ago.

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In that case Chuck we've had it or, in greenspeak "we've **** our hole full".

Not that I think so mind you.

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coberst wrote:

I can see it already on the Internet discussion forums where communication is becoming a stream of consciousness without coherent grammatical or thoughtful content or construction.

Been reading up on your posts? Twisted Evil

Sorry cob, couldn't resist.

But seriously, even though I can relate to the claim that technology can be degenerating to people's ability to come up with creative solutions, I do not think that it will completely erase our wits.

All in all, I do not think the contrivances of our modern age will have much impact at all on the things that matter. Humans today are the same as they were 50 thousand years ago.

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Cyracuz wrote:

Humans today are the same as they were 50 thousand years ago.

Hear Hear

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Setanta wrote:

Cyracuz wrote:
Humans today are the same as they were 50 thousand years ago.

Hear Hear

NOt true, not true at all. Humans are taller and heavier they they were 50 thousand years ago.

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You need to check out Cro Magnon man, Dys.

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Setanta wrote:

You need to check out Cro Magnon man, Dys.

Cro Magnon were French, and entirely different matter.

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They may have eaten cheese, but there is no reliable evidence that they were surrender monkeys . . .

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cyr wrote-

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Humans today are the same as they were 50 thousand years ago.

I think we probably have much better looking ladies than they did then and they may even be less trying now as a bonus. That seems an important difference to me.

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Point is that I do not think 'understanding' will ever end.

Still, our current understanding of things is a thing that changes constantly, for better or for worse.

When we think about the lifespan of any culture in history and the time it takes for them to end, there may be a possibility that the understanding of the world of 2006 may be obsolete in 2056. Who knows?

Humanity will probably survive our modern civilisation.

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