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It also makes a dangerous assumption : that all forms of life is designed according to our idea of what life is. But life may very well exists outside of the co

It also makes a dangerous assumption : that all forms of life is designed according to our idea of what life is. But life may very well exists outside of the concept of thoughts, or may not be constrained by space, time or causality. Or maybe span on severeal spaces/times. For what we know anything could be alive, we just have now way to be verify it. Our concept of "life" is very limited, because it's limited to what we can perceive or imagine.

pavel_lishin 11y ago
> or may not be constrained by space, time or causality If something isn't constrained by causality, can we even classify it in the same "life" bucket that we define ourselves to be in? Can we even reason about it?
- sametmax 11y ago
  Well, the life bucket we define ourselves in may very well not be causal either. Maybe we just see it that way because of our limits. It's impossible to prove. This is the limit of our condition: at a certain point, everything is a believe. I believe in causality because I have been perceiving the reality this way. And this believe is strong enough to prevent myself from jumping outside of the windows, fearing the consequence of my action. But nothing proves that the universe is causal. You can imagine a non causal universe, and some mecanismes making us not see it. You can imagine many totally randoms universe, but our conscienciouness only focus on the one we think make sense. You can imagine that each individual live in it's own universe, but none of them are influencing each others. You can imagine no universe and just a dream, or a virtual one projected to get a restult. You can imagine a universe that is created and dying at every moment, replaced by another one in order to try to find the perfect combination or particules or to restore some kind of balance.
mcguire 11y ago
Thank you, Herbert Phillips Lovecraft.

pavel_lishin 11y ago

> or may not be constrained by space, time or causality If something isn't constrained by causality, can we even classify it in the same "life" bucket that we define ourselves to be in? Can we even reason about it?

sametmax 11y ago
Well, the life bucket we define ourselves in may very well not be causal either. Maybe we just see it that way because of our limits. It's impossible to prove. This is the limit of our condition: at a certain point, everything is a believe. I believe in causality because I have been perceiving the reality this way. And this believe is strong enough to prevent myself from jumping outside of the windows, fearing the consequence of my action. But nothing proves that the universe is causal. You can imagine a non causal universe, and some mecanismes making us not see it. You can imagine many totally randoms universe, but our conscienciouness only focus on the one we think make sense. You can imagine that each individual live in it's own universe, but none of them are influencing each others. You can imagine no universe and just a dream, or a virtual one projected to get a restult. You can imagine a universe that is created and dying at every moment, replaced by another one in order to try to find the perfect combination or particules or to restore some kind of balance.

mcguire 11y ago

Thank you, Herbert Phillips Lovecraft.