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Wonder - Coggle Diagram
Wonder
Extinguishment
Into the Wild
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His parents offering to pay for him to go to Harvard and. buy him a new car are indicators that he has no wonder for that future
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Trancendent man
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The dangers of the Singularity can cause someone to extinguish their wonder as they do not want to risk stability and control for a hyper advanced future
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Middle Ground
Into the Wild
Finding out his parents weren't legally married and that he was a "bastard child" made him completely blinded to who his real identity is
Chris has a middle ground wonder of love seen with Tracy, where he enjoyed moments with her and seemed a little hurt to leave her behind but didn't actually pursue the path of staying in Slab City
The fights between his parents changed his mentality from being scared of the change to being indifferent, the middle ground in wonder where he is open to change but not pursuing it
Trancendent man
Kurzweil holding onto his father's possessions demonstrates his inability to let go of the past by trying to bring back his father
Taking tens of hundreds of pills overtime to see if one can prolong and modify their body chemistry/life
New technology being used to invent new technology demonstrates not drunken wonder as it is almost "expected' to produce newer technology
Drunken Wonder
Trancendent man
The idea that we could surpass death through technology and upload people's minds as well as revive the dead through memory and document analysis
Kurzweil's timeline for the creation of all these new technologies that are meant to evolve mankind through cybernetics, AI, and the exponential growth of technology
Technology will reach a point where humans will no longer control it, perhaps be controlled by it
Into the Wild
Being away from any sort of other people gives him great wonder, seen when he steps out of his tent to a boat on. the lake in front of him. The reasoning for this is because he doesn't understand why people are cruel
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Chris wanted to experience life outside of the material world, which got him drunk with wonder, seen through his having fun and exploring