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I was indirectly hinting towards this through my posturing. Much of our concepts sentience and intelligence strike me as egotistical and conceited. After all,
by yomly 10y ago
I was indirectly hinting towards this through my posturing. Much of our concepts sentience and intelligence strike me as egotistical and conceited.
After all, on the scale of galaxies do our efforts amount to much more than noise? Are we to planets all that different to bacteria on us?
- yomly 10y agoAdding to that - arguably, haven't rats, cockroaches and mosquitoes almost achieved more than us in terms of expansion when we take into account their scale? Or influenza for that matter? I recall a scientific study that suggested the (perceived) passing of time is relative to the size of an organism.[0] So perhaps we can only notice or appreciate phenomena that occur on a timescale that is relative to our size. It's true that with modern techniques we can now study things but our ability to value or appreciate things diminish as the time scale departs from ours... [0]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24078179 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24078179