"Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data. Continue to feed your results back into the original function ad infinitum. What do you have? the fundamental principle of human consciousness." - WOW
@RandomString I feel like "Now We Are Alone" was probably an early, loftier effort. A scientist believing he knows everything. But later, having "tasted the fruit", he sees he's just begun learning. That's my take on it.
5:01 Prokhor really made me think there. We do have a tendancy to cling to the unlikey rather then what stares us in the face. Just as his example. we have no real reason to believe god exists, we have not exactly proven he does not exist. Just as its extremely unlikely you will ever win the lotto, however it has not been proven impossible therefore there is no reason not to hope.
@Robbos the reason not hope is that the sort of hope your talking about blinds us to reality. hope is a blind fold that comforts us because it prevonts us from seeing that brick wall our civlisation is runing towards. i always felt Prokhor was being sarcastic there. sarcastic about science and religion at the same time just in one little quote thats Alpha Centauri for you
0:44 sister Miriam Godwinson have a point if god is a perfect being why would he create a universe that is inperfect with so much evil proving that god is not the creator ?
Huh? No, she was saying that it was a mystery that the universe existed at all if there is a god, not that it was a mystery that it had evil in it. In no way did she imply that the imperfectness of the universe proved the non-existence of god.
Why oh why did they go from possibly the best voice acting in a computer game to Civ 4's generic and flat readings? Even the animated council of Civ 2 was better acting
@woodwyrm True, which gives SMAC a much better deepness. If these quotes were truley written by the devs then they clearly could give some of the best philosophers in history a run for their money.
@tehren99 Give Nimoy respect, he was good at it and it gave a big deal of entertainment to the game. As for the actual quotes, SMAC was one of the first to have them voiced yet also the very best voicing in the entire series, only rivaled by meeting the various faction heads in C5. Its only time untill a total civ 5 conversion is made...
3:47 Great quote.
bookfound 2 months ago
"Begin with a function of arbitrary complexity. Feed it values, "sense data". Then, take your result, square it, and feed it back into your original function, adding a new set of sense data. Continue to feed your results back into the original function ad infinitum. What do you have? the fundamental principle of human consciousness." - WOW
castlekingside28 9 months ago
the earthen dude abides
woodwyrm 9 months ago
So what is the earlier book: "Now we are alone" or "For i have tasted the fruit"?
RandomString 1 year ago
@RandomString I feel like "Now We Are Alone" was probably an early, loftier effort. A scientist believing he knows everything. But later, having "tasted the fruit", he sees he's just begun learning. That's my take on it.
FallOfRome101189 11 months ago
5:01 Prokhor really made me think there. We do have a tendancy to cling to the unlikey rather then what stares us in the face. Just as his example. we have no real reason to believe god exists, we have not exactly proven he does not exist. Just as its extremely unlikely you will ever win the lotto, however it has not been proven impossible therefore there is no reason not to hope.
Robbos 1 year ago
@Robbos the reason not hope is that the sort of hope your talking about blinds us to reality. hope is a blind fold that comforts us because it prevonts us from seeing that brick wall our civlisation is runing towards. i always felt Prokhor was being sarcastic there. sarcastic about science and religion at the same time just in one little quote thats Alpha Centauri for you
Daleksaresupreme1 8 months ago
@Robbos
I guess it all really comes down to Pessimism vs Optimism.
I'm optimistic. Ergo, I am Hindu
Skinnyoompalumpa 5 months ago
0:44 sister Miriam Godwinson have a point if god is a perfect being why would he create a universe that is inperfect with so much evil proving that god is not the creator ?
good argument ?
frederikIII 1 year ago
@frederikIII Exactly, who would have thought a religious zealot (albeit fictional) could manage to prove the non-existence of god.
theblackwidower 1 year ago
@frederikIII
Huh? No, she was saying that it was a mystery that the universe existed at all if there is a god, not that it was a mystery that it had evil in it. In no way did she imply that the imperfectness of the universe proved the non-existence of god.
Alignn 1 year ago
@Alignn i do see your point
frederikIII 1 year ago
Why oh why did they go from possibly the best voice acting in a computer game to Civ 4's generic and flat readings? Even the animated council of Civ 2 was better acting
eightbitgnosis 2 years ago
i löööööve what Chen-Jiy-Jiang says about Probability Mechanics :D
Einstein would've turned over in his grave
Not only does god play dice, the dice are loaded
:D :D :D
woodwyrm 2 years ago 2
Bad'l Ron and Bozon Pete are the pimp daddies of Alpha Centauri
TheloniousFunk1 2 years ago 3
fuck year
:D
woodwyrm 2 years ago
This game is incredible...
Great script and great graphics...
Strategy 101%
Nachuelas 2 years ago 19
Fantastic. SMAC's quotes are a million times better than Leonard Nimoy's ramblings in Civ4. Such variety and intelligent. Thanks for making this :)
tehren99 3 years ago 33
Weeeell.. most of the quotes in SMAC are written by the devs while the quotes in CIVIV are from history ;-)
So its a somewhat clunky comparison methinks.
woodwyrm 3 years ago 5
@woodwyrm You know it's a good game when Nietszche and St. Augustine are among the writing team.
TheloniousFunk1 2 years ago
@woodwyrm True, which gives SMAC a much better deepness. If these quotes were truley written by the devs then they clearly could give some of the best philosophers in history a run for their money.
Robbos 1 year ago
@tehren99 Give Nimoy respect, he was good at it and it gave a big deal of entertainment to the game. As for the actual quotes, SMAC was one of the first to have them voiced yet also the very best voicing in the entire series, only rivaled by meeting the various faction heads in C5. Its only time untill a total civ 5 conversion is made...
Robbos 1 year ago
thanks man!
nonamesleftyousee 3 years ago 3
thanks!!!!! I really appriciate this!
taberuna1 3 years ago
SWEET JESUS THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS!
iPwn007 3 years ago 8
This is great!
SuperSapcePretorian 3 years ago