Why is it that people find it normal to slave away all their lives for a minuscule reward in the end? Why is it that wanting to enjoy life and take breaks is frowned upon? We have followed the same pattern for centuries, but it is time for a change. Jesse: My utopia is a world where the rat race no longer exists. I imagine a world where sicknesses are cured by love and the desire to live. I imagine a world where numbers don’t define us, and where everyone is free to roam without holding a mask (or several) in front of his or her face. I imagine a feeling of love and welcoming no matter who we are or where we go. Nazrin: I imagine a world without greed, hunger, thirst, violence, but with subtle pains that make our happy moments even more valuable and precious. Below are excerpts from their answers, one of which defines utopia as “a world with the perfect amount of imperfection.” I hope these responses prod readers to dream up their own utopias. I recently posed this question to a freshman humanities class and gave the students 10 minutes to write responses. That’s why I’ve been asking smart people, “What’s your utopia?” See the responses of Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Wolfram, Scott Aaronson, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Sheldon Solomon and Robin Hanson. All progress begins with such wishful thinking. Imagine a really good world, and imagine how we can get there. Even if you doubt your utopia is attainable, it can serve as a useful thought experiment. ![]() As his run for the Presidency wound down, Bernie Sanders griped, “There is nothing we’ve said in our campaign that is pie-in-the-sky or utopian.” My call for an end to war is often derided as utopian.īut everyone, it seems to me, should envision an ideal world, one much better than ours. If someone calls you or your idea “utopian,” they usually mean it as an insult, a synonym for naïve and unrealistic. Although I study Psychology, but sometimes I get really scared by such experiments.Utopia gets a bad rap. Is Utopia really that good that you forgot your morality? I read a infinite game novel yesterday, where this experiment was mentioned in one arc and it made me think whether we humans would ever face such situations in distant far away future? They had everything, food, shelter and protection. By 600th day the population was on brink of extinction, though physically able to reproduce, the mice forget how to engage in courtship. What's more scary is when the population peaked at 2,200 mice in Utopia, abnormal behavioural was seen such as destructive behaviour, mothers abandoning their young ones, refusal to mating and homosexuality. They would only eat in company of other mice. ![]() In short, it was seen that some mice could not eat alone but began to view feeding as a community activity. As the population grew, behavioural patterns of mice were disrupted. Four breeding pairs of mice were placed them inside a "utopia". ![]() They were kept in enclosed spaces in which they were given unlimited access to food and water, enabling unfettered population growth. It was a series of experiment done on rats where they created a utopia for them. Have you ever heard about rat Utopia experiment? What are your thoughts about it? Do you think it's findings are applicable to human?įor those who don't know about rat utopia experiment.
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