Hi Scott, I like your post, here are my thoughts. ---- What most people see as happiness is an illusion of themselves in a better environment being satisfied on every wish. Its comparable to someone who havent eat for weeks and dreams about eating a whole horse, which is just his mind playing tricks...

I think the common sense interfers with this question, throwing garbage concepts in the middle. Three things: tool, made by the man, and material. TOOL The common sense says a tool cant develop consciousness, since tools are meant to be manipulated by an external conscience. Tools are conscience-dea...

I do consider me a philosopher in the same group as Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Kierkegaard, etc

MyshiningOne wrote:We need more of them to save our world. We need
people who think outside the box!

Actually we need people who DO out of the box. Enough of thinking.