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if all life forms were sapient
5 years ago
would they really create a world very much like our own?
would the mass produce cars and guns, or build rectangular houses?
or buy and sell the places we all must walk upon?
or would they find other ways.
i suspect, sapience begins with a fascination with unnatural things,
with expressing, communicating and archiving ideas.
while this leads to technologies, would they be perceived from such perspectives as are familiar to our world?
diversity is the nature of our perspectives.
familiar assumptions may not be all that universally familiar.
nor do good and harm, map to what is and is not.
and whatever we thing we know, we can, and almost certainly will, encounter something that contradicts it.
would the mass produce cars and guns, or build rectangular houses?
or buy and sell the places we all must walk upon?
or would they find other ways.
i suspect, sapience begins with a fascination with unnatural things,
with expressing, communicating and archiving ideas.
while this leads to technologies, would they be perceived from such perspectives as are familiar to our world?
diversity is the nature of our perspectives.
familiar assumptions may not be all that universally familiar.
nor do good and harm, map to what is and is not.
and whatever we thing we know, we can, and almost certainly will, encounter something that contradicts it.
The rest of the statement I agree with.
V.
Humanity is going through some serious growing pains right now. These are interesting times for sure. We are sentient, yes, but our own sapience still remains to be seen.