True, but when generation N decides that having children is creating slaves, and they blog about their superior morality and behavior, the probability of generation N+1 being born is greatly reduced.noddy wrote:the trickyness of this ideology is its not self correcting in the next generation, as its the previous generations fault!
https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/02/opini ... und-burke/In the manner of Burke, the US president may see that trade with an “outsider” like China unequally benefits Silicon Valley but adversely burdens America’s manufacturing sector. In addition, by way of California’s US-industry-sponsored (along with Chinese government money) “Confucius Institutes” where Chinese scholars and technicians find temporary intellectual homes as they transit back and forth across the Pacific, brain capital trade may “unfairly” benefit US high tech in the short run, while aggravating the unpaid-for export of American intellectual property.
“The only dominant theory we have of consciousness says that it is associated with complexity — with a system’s ability to act upon its own state and determine its own fate,” Koch argues. “Theory states that it could go down to very simple systems. In principle, some purely physical systems that are not biological or organic may also be conscious.”