This post is called 'bigger fish' in reference to a Star Wars quote as Qui-Gon and Obi-wan travel through the planet core to Naboo city. They get chased by a gigantic fish and then an even larger one eats their pursuer. "There's always a bigger fish" Qui-gon says.
This principle can be applied to progress, whether financial, advancement at work, education, family, anything.
There will ALWAYS be something better. What will you satisfy yourself with?
I am pressed for time so I won't write much more, but here's something I wrote 2 years ago speculating on the implications of an infinity universe (a common defense to my TSM arguments)
Supposing the world is infinite (atheistic defense for cosmological argument), then there can always be (or I might argue there is) a civilization so far advanced above us that we don’t matter. This destroys all motivation for scientific progress (because they will eventually overtake us), the improvement of the human condition (why are humans special if there is a better race?), the search for ultimate truth (because reality is infinite and therefore unknowable), etc.
10 October 2010
2 evidences that humans are special
Size and Texture:
The macro world of galaxies is arranged in particles (earth, solar, milky way, local group/cluster, Virgo supercluster, pisces-cestus supercluster complex...) and the microscopic world is arranged in particles (cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, gluons, quarks...30 levels more). This dimension that we live in, starting from earth and reaching to cells, is all textured. There are objects with funny shapes, design, complexity, etc. This indicates that we inhabit a special size in the universe.
Animals:
We alone of the animal species have created tools and run all over the earth and make technological marvels. How come there are not other dominant species? Nearly all other animals have reasonably alike cousins, we have none. All animals are on relatively the same level, none exercise control over another, none are significantly more powerful than another. We humans are special. The chimpanzee doesn’t have a word for ‘evil.
I realize that both these arguments (and all my others) are left relatively undefended and do not touch on common counter-arguments. If you have any, please pose them and I will reply as honestly as I can.
The macro world of galaxies is arranged in particles (earth, solar, milky way, local group/cluster, Virgo supercluster, pisces-cestus supercluster complex...) and the microscopic world is arranged in particles (cells, molecules, atoms, electrons, gluons, quarks...30 levels more). This dimension that we live in, starting from earth and reaching to cells, is all textured. There are objects with funny shapes, design, complexity, etc. This indicates that we inhabit a special size in the universe.
Animals:
We alone of the animal species have created tools and run all over the earth and make technological marvels. How come there are not other dominant species? Nearly all other animals have reasonably alike cousins, we have none. All animals are on relatively the same level, none exercise control over another, none are significantly more powerful than another. We humans are special. The chimpanzee doesn’t have a word for ‘evil.
I realize that both these arguments (and all my others) are left relatively undefended and do not touch on common counter-arguments. If you have any, please pose them and I will reply as honestly as I can.
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