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"Reality Check: You are a lifeform that feeds on the transition of matter from low entropy to high entropy states. We very literally consume worlds. We should t
by rsync 10y ago
"Reality Check: You are a lifeform that feeds on the transition of matter from low entropy to high entropy states. We very literally consume worlds. We should try and do that in a way that doesn't undermine our own survival chances, and, as long as that doesn't interfer with the previous point in a way that minimises harm to other lifeforms that we consider useful or beautiful. No amount of virtue signalling and related posturing is going to change that fundamental reality."
Joseph Campbell said it most succinctly:
"(All) life lives on life".[1]
[1] http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801710-life-lives-on-life-this-is-the-sense-of-the http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/801710-life-lives-on-life-th...