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Idea of Time Science (evolution from humans) Souls Epistemology
What’s the point of a tree’s life? Thought chain: We didn’t leave the ocean a 300-400 my ago; we brought it with us. It is in every cell, well at least most of them. So evolution, at least DNA evolution, hasn’t left the ocean (early concept of "Fire in the Ocean"). Life is fluid, occupying the nearly balanced margin between strong attraction (e.g., solids) and weak attraction, (e.g. gasses) It is fluid but not chaotic; weaker than crystals but not brittle. Life is about, among others, disagreement about arbitrary boundaries in fuzzy margins. Anyway, fluid life, oceans, DNA .... ...... then I saw my lamp ..... Are machines the first steps toward self-replicating chemical reactions moving into space, iron and silcon replacing carbon and oxygen? Maybe, but if machines don’t “think”, what’s the point of perpetuating existence? What about trees? What about us? Is “thinking” special? Does a spider “think?” I think so sometimes, others not. |