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RE: somewhere on the holo-deck (Letters 6.1)
Maybe you remember that I predicted we would arrive at those questions in the Intermezzo.
I often think about them and the implications of being able to answer them. Especially the question: Why are we here?
I'll go into that, first on my answer tou (6.1). and then, on my next letter.
Today is Carnaval (party, party, party), so, I won't have much time for this, but I'll be back soon. :)
This is not for the first time I read this formula, and I did not regard it as important - up to now, because just in this moment I came to the question: why?
Do you want to say, I should wait and not go for the mentioned issue?
Go for the issue. I'll go into it just the same. I just mean that I intend to get there. Also, I have an half written text. I'm not finishing it today.
"why" is a bit ambiguous.
Do you mean the origin or do you mean the purpose?
"What for are we here?" seems exciting and philosophically interesting to me, "Why..." with the meaning "What is our origin?" seems to me interesting in a scientific sense, since we know the evolutionary principle. There are many sub-questions of high suspense, but I do not see there any longer a strictly philosophical implication.
"What for are we here?" on the other hand implicates such philosophical questions, primarily: "Who are we?" and "Where is here or what means 'here' while it seems to include 'now'?"
One thing I regard as given:
When I press ENTER then my computer initiates emitting this message, and later yours (or your smartphone) will receive this message consisting of bits & bytes, of letters and words.
Sometimes I forget I'm talking to a German and I need to be more precise because we use a mutually understandable language, but not the same base language.
Why, in this case means: What is our purpose here?
Our origin is also an interesting subject, but it seems to be on the other end of the scale. Though knowing the origin may prove to lead to conclusions about the purpose, I don't believe them to be causally related.
I'm living in Germany and I'm speaking German - is this sufficient to conclude that I am a German?
;-)
It may be enough to conclude that you depart from a very different linguistic scheme from mine. An that is notorious in some of our exchanges.
You could be Nepalese for all I care, but you think like a German.
Cheers.
You're kidding, aren't you?
;-)
Obviously. lmfao
P.S.- As you can see... Provocation can go both ways. I do sarcasm too. A lot. ;)