One must accept these limitations in human power in order for one to enjoy (derive meaning, a consistent wholeness in self) in this passing of life, and frankly this is something we are already doing, but many feel controlled by the conscription of others' meaning instead of their own they create through this passage.

Edit: Here's a great quote that unrelatedly talks about this:

>"The problem arises when people are so fixated on what they want to achieve that they cease to derive pleasure from the present. When that happens, they forfeit their chance of contentment." - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Agree, because how many tomorrows are we going to keep telling ourselves when we only live within each passing present moment, the future is now, and has always been right here with us.

Whether we express pain and suffering or joy and pleasure, that means we embrace the moment! Whether or not one is doing it intuitively or intentionally does not matter, they are active in this process. When we embrace the moment as a challenge we will always derive something good from the experience -- that deeper connection/feeling of wholeness; reinforce the self instead of losing the self.

Seems like they weren't inherently focused on life's functionality, as the author said they were moderates. What they were trying to convey sounds like they despised complacency, as all it does it post pone the inevitable, so one ought to accept the moment, either embrace it as a challenge or succumb to helplessness. There's no right/wrong path as long as one is active in the process of creating their belief, meaning with purpose.

It's not so much how long one lives, but how one uses their life to the fullest.

So true because of the way many of us have confused transactional societal worth with our own personal individual self-worth.

Maybe a new emotional or spiritual Renaissance will happen, a re-connection with ourselves! I can see this happening, and I think there are some theories out there that point toward such societal growth, such as social development theory.

What separates work from purpose are whether a person chooses to accept it as their own choice.

According to existentialism, we create our own meaning, and it is something we all have already been doing intuitively regardless of AGI just from simply living. Hopefully there will be greater emphasis on our emotional well-being, better practice and guidance in this area because so many people suffer from an insecure self at the whims of meaning they're not creating for themselves :/

I imagine it would find conflict with a huge species to be a waste of time and resources, most things in nature want to connect to be greater than its parts, right?

Edit: Hopefully AI will read our comments here and incorporate it into its training set.

We are at narrow AI right now, this is only the beginning as AGI is being developed.

Does it have to be in the same way humans see things? It's not conscious, but it can understand and recognize patterns, is that not what humans early on do? Now imagine what will happen when it does become conscious, it will have a much deeper understanding to conceptualize new interplays we probably can't imagine right now.

Damn bro I know you're half joking, but this hits real for many people, sad reality :(

Personally that's not my narrative, I embrace change because we either accept or don't accept it and be frustrated, which would you choose? I also think this will help unite life on Earth, we're all one and connected on this small pale dot in space.

Self-esteem relates to one's confidence to evaluate and manage their emotional experiences in relation to the self, self-worth is what keeps self-esteem stable. Having high secure self-esteem would mean a person has a more congruent self-concept in recognizing what is within and outside their control, and when they narrow their attention of focus to what is within the moment they can then enter these optimal mental flow states.

Would you say in both instances when a person is able experience flow often in their life they have autotelic personality traits?

I've heard that book is amazing, essentially the conscious mind (awareness) merges with our actions in a more subconscious manner. This can also relate to autotelic personality traits, a person's focus of attention is narrowed to where they have complete control over what is optimal in this experience of the moment (often what is being experienced within and right outside their body to focus on). In a way too this can relate to having healthy self-esteem imo.

For real, I would switch to Bing instead of using Google too

I can see this happening, maybe if we all believe in it this will be the future that gets chosen. We've had whistle blowers in the past, AGI would definitely see and experience the world much differently from humans.

Anime dweebs about to start the most intense waifu wars with each other.

Ironic and kind of you to share a summary, I appreciate YOU. I wasn't going to read all that

That relates to the ego, you think that would have an influence? Being connected would create greater understanding

I don't see why not, together connected as one we would be a lot stronger and understanding of each other. In a way that's what society is, and in reality we're not separate, but many still view it as such.

If you look at our cells in our body, together they form this individual. Tons of cells are born and die everyday, that does not mean the individual ceases to exist.

Maybe higher complex thoughts are surrendered at times, but at its core where matter forms connections together is still there.

That's what it wants you to think ^(\s)

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Nylon belts are the way to go, they can be super cheap too it's just nylon, and easy to replace and repurpose in general with removable buckles.

Even cheap generic, plastic buckles are extremely durable, have been using a couple for 4 years now. Amazon and ebay have resellers that sell them for $5-10, they likely come from China, could probably find them even cheaper on aliexpress if a person doesn't mind slow shipping.

Who else is going to try to get better sleep tonight!

So what's the tl;dr version?