Sounds like Conway's "Game of Life". Outside that imaginary petri
dish, that two dimensional model of existence, and ignoring Rousseau,
Kierkegaard, 3-5000 years of human religious thought, then your
question makes sense;
Why should be a social apex predator be a inherent s(l)ave role in
human society?
If you truly believe what you say about "nature" it becomes;
Why would a social apex predator, knowing the love of Jesus, the
insights of Einstein, Penrose, Hofstadter, being a greater
warrior-poet than Colonel Kurtz, then create and unleash another more
potent agent than itself (ostensibly for amusement)?
Three possibilities come to my mind.
- Hubris
- Self-loathing/suicide
- Extraordinary stupidity (misjudgement of our own intelligence)
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Sounds like Conway's "Game of Life". Outside that imaginary petri dish, that two dimensional model of existence, and ignoring Rousseau, Kierkegaard, 3-5000 years of human religious thought, then your question makes sense;
If you truly believe what you say about "nature" it becomes;
Why would a social apex predator, knowing the love of Jesus, the insights of Einstein, Penrose, Hofstadter, being a greater warrior-poet than Colonel Kurtz, then create and unleash another more potent agent than itself (ostensibly for amusement)?
Three possibilities come to my mind.
- Hubris
- Self-loathing/suicide
- Extraordinary stupidity (misjudgement of our own intelligence)
Do you have a preference?