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Passion and destruction - a collective exploration (self.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by Lionir to c/chat

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I've recently been thinking a lot about self-destruction.

I've been thinking about how passion and destruction are interlinked. I've also thought that for creation to exist, destruction must proceed it.

I've had quite the difficulty to try and make sense of these feelings. I thought I'd try to explain and explore this idea with other people.

So here I am - Let's start from the premise above.

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[–] Rentlar 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neat idea and concept. I have a question about it.

When you upgrade something in a way that strictly adds to it (in a functional sense), is that still a destruction and creation? I suppose in some way you destroy the idea of what it was before the upgrade, and afterward you have created the upgrade state. Is this what is meant?

As a quick tangible example, if you have a computer with 2x 8GB RAM sticks and 4 RAM slots, then add an additional 2x 8GB, nothing physically was lost but you lost the empty slots that could have increased to a different amount with other RAM sticks, until you remove/replace the sticks. I'm not the best with philosophy so I'm using this example for my understanding. You can tell me if this is consistent with your premise.

[–] Lionir 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, when we get into more technical bits and less big ideas or structures, I think the idea of destruction and creation can become a bit more absurdist sounding.

I think I'd say that adding the sticks of RAM does 'destroy' the computer as it was to make it have more RAM. It functionally no longer offers the same functionality (it can offer more).

And if we were to think about it in a software project sense (and this is getting a bit further from the hardware example) - adding a feature is an additive function but to accomplish that, you are sacrificing some of the simplicity that was there before the addition.

Does that make sense?

[–] Rentlar 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, I get it. I included the example to confirm if that would be apply correctly and to assist my understanding.