Philosophical Questions: Remembered

[ysabetwordsmith]

People have expressed interest in deep topics, so this list focuses on philosophical questions.

How long will you be remembered after you die?

That depends on whether it's personal memory (the remaining lifespan of people who knew me, so maybe 50 years or so) or my writing (which depends on its popularity, but could potentially be thousands of years).

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Re: tried some out..

[ysabetwordsmith]

I can't really turn my brain off. It has higher and lower gears, but some of the lower ones are for emergency use only. For me it's normal to have lots of things going on in my head at the same time. I always have story ideas simmering on the back burners.

Not everyone's brain is like that, though. For one thing, I have a linguistic coprocessor. It lets me do incredible linguistic stunts. However, it's taking up space that other folks use for different things, such as face recognition. Mine is the cheap shareware version of that. But I wouldn't trade what I have for what they have. I like my brain the way it is. The fact that it annoys other people is their problem. It can't be changed just because they don't like how it is.

Re: tried some out..

[see_also_friend]

[Shrug] I have a half-baked plan for how to talk someone out of an Emotional Spiral of Doom Over the phone, which I have never had to use (and hopefully never will). I have a related one for when talking won't work, and I'd have to use nonlinguistic input (and I really hope I never need to use that one).

I also tend to squirrel away stuff to be ready for what-ifs: first-aid gear in my purse, extra shelf-stable food in my locker, toolkit in my car, etc. That way, I am prepared for stuff...and I don't have to listen to my brain running the "What do I do if my car gets a flat tire at 1am?" on repeat.

...Thinking through puzzles and what-ifs is useful, but comes with the side-effect of maybe thinking myself in spinning-loops.