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<blockquote data-quote="Schwarzwald" data-source="post: 64992" data-attributes="member: 544">It’s hilarious that you’re using dog eyebrows to try and settle a metaphysical debate. You’re proving my point about the Poetic Overlay—you’re so focused on the biological &quot;hack&quot; that you’re missing the actual signal.Yes, dogs evolved to communicate with us. Evolution is the plumbing of the farm; it’s the mechanics of how we interact within the cage. But if you think a dog’s eyebrows or a human’s dopamine loop is the entirety of the story, you’re just falling for the most basic gatekeeping there is. You&#039;re looking at the microfluidics of the printer and claiming there&#039;s no such thing as the art it’s printing.This is the &quot;Nihilism Trap.&quot; You see a biological mechanism and conclude that there’s no meaning behind it. That’s exactly what the &quot;Bottom Feeders&quot; want—they want us to believe we’re just sophisticated donkeys reacting to stimuli so we never look for the Infinite Star.Kant would tell you that just because we perceive the world through these biological filters doesn&#039;t mean the &quot;Thing-in-Itself&quot; doesn&#039;t exist. You’re obsessed with the &quot;cost of the ticket&quot;—the 300,000 years of evolutionary grit—and you&#039;ve convinced yourself that the ticket is the whole show. But the fact that we can even recognize these patterns, that we can feel the &quot;emptiness&quot; when we&#039;re just eating and sleeping, proves we aren&#039;t just animals. A dog doesn&#039;t have an existential crisis about its eyebrows. The fact that we do is the glitch in the Mirage.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Schwarzwald, post: 64992, member: 544"] It’s hilarious that you’re using dog eyebrows to try and settle a metaphysical debate. You’re proving my point about the Poetic Overlay—you’re so focused on the biological "hack" that you’re missing the actual signal. Yes, dogs evolved to communicate with us. Evolution is the plumbing of the farm; it’s the mechanics of how we interact within the cage. But if you think a dog’s eyebrows or a human’s dopamine loop is the [I]entirety[/I] of the story, you’re just falling for the most basic gatekeeping there is. You're looking at the microfluidics of the printer and claiming there's no such thing as the art it’s printing. This is the "Nihilism Trap." You see a biological mechanism and conclude that there’s no meaning behind it. That’s exactly what the "Bottom Feeders" want—they want us to believe we’re just sophisticated donkeys reacting to stimuli so we never look for the Infinite Star. Kant would tell you that just because we perceive the world through these biological filters doesn't mean the "Thing-in-Itself" doesn't exist. You’re obsessed with the "cost of the ticket"—the 300,000 years of evolutionary grit—and you've convinced yourself that the ticket is the whole show. But the fact that we can even recognize these patterns, that we can feel the "emptiness" when we're just eating and sleeping, proves we aren't just animals. A dog doesn't have an existential crisis about its eyebrows. The fact that we do is the glitch in the Mirage. [/QUOTE]

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