>>118 Ultimately when you can reproduce something perfectly authenticity becomes a very silly idea. After all we are but points of intense transactional exchange on the surface of reality, we are but emergent chemical machines. Our components are not ours, there is no self other then the assemblage, but we have merely identified and abstracted that based on our limited faculties. Everything is sacred until it is reproduced in a lab, then it is merely a product of a process. This line of thinking is very disturbing to the western mind, that there isn't a you that is an individual soul but rather something that is part of a cosmic entity.
Ultimately when you can reproduce something perfectly authenticity becomes a very silly idea. After all we are but points of intense transactional exchange on the surface of reality, we are but emergent chemical machines.
Our components are not ours, there is no self other then the assemblage, but we have merely identified and abstracted that based on our limited faculties.
Everything is sacred until it is reproduced in a lab, then it is merely a product of a process.
This line of thinking is very disturbing to the western mind, that there isn't a you that is an individual soul but rather something that is part of a cosmic entity.