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16 Apr 2012, 6:43 pm

My first question is that if we had an encounter with the superhuman how would we treat her?



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16 Apr 2012, 7:03 pm

Curiosity.


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16 Apr 2012, 7:23 pm

Hatred and fear.



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16 Apr 2012, 7:27 pm

Actually, I am male, and you have treated me nicely.



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16 Apr 2012, 7:36 pm

Precisely. We would feel very much ashamed if the super human appeared before us and its intelligence made us look like apes in comparison.

Hatred ? Of course we would hate the super human. After all we are supposed to be equal right ? Who is this super human that says that its ways are better than our ways ? All roads lead to heaven right?

Fear? Would we fear the super human? How would we be able to keep our jobs if we had to compete with a super human?

So would we not try to find fault with the super human. The language vocabulary of the super human is infinitely more complex than regular humans. So let us take words away from the super human and then try to find fault with the super human when it cannot understand our very limited vocabulary.



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16 Apr 2012, 7:43 pm

androbot2084 wrote:
Precisely. We would feel very much ashamed if the super human appeared before us and its intelligence made us look like apes in comparison.


Do you mean an alien or superhuman?



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16 Apr 2012, 7:48 pm

Obviously if an alien appeared before us with a brain twice as large as ours it would be harder to refute its superior intelligence. So let us say that it is a super human that uses more of its brain than the average person who only uses 10 percent.



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16 Apr 2012, 7:54 pm

So now we claim that the super human is inferior to us because it cannot understand social cues and body language and it is not swayed even if we laugh at it. But I say that the superhuman can understand body language but the super human is not controlled by our body language. It is an entity that is beyond our control.



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16 Apr 2012, 8:06 pm

androbot2084 wrote:
So now we claim that the super human is inferior to us because it cannot understand social cues and body language and it is not swayed even if we laugh at it. But I say that the superhuman can understand body language but the super human is not controlled by our body language. It is an entity that is beyond our control.


My border collie can start fires with her mind. If she stands next to me, people think I am doing it.



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16 Apr 2012, 8:31 pm

shrox wrote:
Actually, I am male, and you have treated me nicely.


:hail:



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16 Apr 2012, 8:32 pm

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I would not try to find fault, I would be curious as to what the superhuman has that I don't, and how, if I respect those qualities, I might also develop them.


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16 Apr 2012, 8:40 pm

There's a good example, Dan Shechtman that discovered quasicrystals was ridiculed by a 2x Nobel price winner with "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.". But Dan won the Nobel price because he was right after all.

Sounds familiar?, you know your subject, still others didn't and anyway they ridicule the one telling the truth..



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16 Apr 2012, 8:44 pm

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There's a good example, Dan Shechtman that discovered quasicrystals was ridiculed by a 2x Nobel price winner with "There is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists.". But Dan won the Nobel price because he was right after all.

Sounds familiar?, you know your subject, still others didn't and anyway they ridicule the one telling the truth..


He was even asked to leave the research group.



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16 Apr 2012, 9:00 pm

Just shows how things really work..

The thought pattern of NT is inherently flawed for scientific findings.



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17 Apr 2012, 12:14 am

Hate that I'm becoming "that person" by talking about the same thing all the time but... X-Men answers this question pretty well.

Also human beings do not only use 10% of our brains, that is untrue, evolution is nothing is not economical and the brain takes a lot of resources, we use the whole darn thing.


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17 Apr 2012, 12:18 am

androbot2084 wrote:
My first question is that if we had an encounter with the superhuman how would we treat her?


What is a superhuman? I'm a human and I'm super. Do I count?