Everything, everywhere, points to her.
I love her. I want to swallow her and keep her inside my skin. I want my bones to keep her safe, my blood to keep her warm.
“The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.”
"Real power doesn't come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest. No, it comes to those who will do anything to achieve it.""Gerçek güç, en güçlü, en hızlı ya da en zeki olarak doğanlara değil... Onu elde etmek için her şeyi yapacak olanlara gelir."- Silco
Even if we’d bet against an accelerator experiment or a genetic disaster destroying humanity, I think it is worth considering such scenarios as a ‘thought experiment’. We have no grounds for assuming that human-induced threats far worse than those on our current risk register can be dismissed. Indeed, we have zero grounds for confidence that we can survive the worst that future technologies could bring. It’s an important maxim that ‘the unfamiliar is not the same as the improbable’.
These ethical questions are far from the ‘everyday’, but it’s not premature to address them—it’s good that some philosophers are doing so. But they also challenge scientists. Indeed, they suggest an extra reason for addressing questions about the physical world that may seem arcane and remote: the stability of space itself, the emergence of life, and the extent and nature of what we might call ‘physical reality’.
They are the 'ones' — those who are different, those who do not conform, those who see the world differently. And perhaps, in the end, it is they who will inherit the earth, because the rest of us will be too busy trying to figure them out.
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Onlar 'olanlardır'; farklı olanlar, uymayanlar, dünyayı farklı görenlerdir. Ve belki de sonunda dünyayı miras alacak olanlar onlardır, çünkü geri kalanımız onları çözmeye çalışmakla çok meşgul olacak.