[evgen]

This sort of dystopian hand-wringing seems to have a certain cachet aomong some crowds, but seems to mostly stem from profound ignorance and a failure of the same imagination you find so limited. What makes humans different than all of the other parts of the natural world is that same imagination and technology that you seem to fundementally misunderstand. We can change our environment, and more importantly we can change the scope of the environment: if the resources of a small area are insufficient we can bring in more, if the resources of an entire planet are insufficient to meet our imagination we can dream bigger and actually execute on those dreams.

Imagination itself is only limited by our technological progress and there are few limits beyond physics itself to stop us there. Two centuries ago our dreams were merely to fly like birds or travel swifter than horses, now we can dream of travel among the stars. Imagine what we will dream of in a century from now.

[crimsonalucard]

>Imagination itself is only limited by our technological progress and there are few limits beyond physics itself to stop us there.

What is the difference between the natural world and physics? I would argue that there is no difference. I use the language "natural world" as a synonym for "the nature of existence" and "physics." I would assume that in your vernacular, the meaning is the same.

Thus your own statement above validates My argument. You state physics limits technology and technology limits the imagination. Thus in turn imagination is limited by physics. This is exactly my argument.