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Hey @unseen !  The only reason we are conscious, is to give us something to entertain ourselves with so our DNA can continue to mutate and evolve without interruption.

Zeus used to shag anything that moved, livestock included, and created a host of Demi-god heroes, all with splendid tales of achievement.  The Christian god got ONE chick pregnant, apparently without even having sex, and we still never hear the end of it.

No Zeus???  Way to ruin a good friday!  Give me those old Greek gods anytime.

Monitors for what purpose, Simon?

It’s not a stretch for Christians to say that Jesus was the son of God, Simon, it’s the absolute core basic tenet of their faith. It’s what ‘Christian’ means. It means you believe that Jesus was the Christ who is the son of God.  Literally that.

@simonpaynton There wasn’t any hell until Jesus turned up.

Viruses are like any other life form. All we do is live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.  Everything else we do is fluff to keep us occupied whilst we live and reproduce and try to stop ourselves being killed.

Its what makes ‘heaven’ so futile.  No death, no reproduction, nothing at all that generates adrenaline. Not sure I…[Read more]

But would the new AI robots be programmed to ‘thrive’?

Avant-garde means something like ‘the cutting edge’. Surely it has to be contextual.  An item cannot be cutting edge in isolation. It has to be compared to similar items in an acknowledged grouping.  Without a perceived edge, it’s a meaningless expression.

I visited the Dali exhibition when it was in Amsterdam. Do I need to say any more?