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Life is pretty good at entropy. Take for example: humans. We've been digging up vast amounts of fossil fuels to then burn them up. Without us, those reserves wo
by justinator 10y ago
Life is pretty good at entropy. Take for example: humans. We've been digging up vast amounts of fossil fuels to then burn them up. Without us, those reserves would stay in the ground probably forever. Is there another organism that's better entropy as us? (actually I think there are contenders)
Perhaps that's our reason for being.
- Razengan 10y agoWe are just a different, temporary state of the same stardust, as everything else around us — as in, a small part of the Universe transformed into us, then started trying to understand the rest of itself. :)
- Retra 10y ago"Reasons" are human constructs. We don't need a reason to be, we just are.
- justinator 10y agoEh, but it makes sense we still follow the Second Law of Thermodynamics, right? When people ask themselves, "What's the point of Life?" That's it: We're agents of entropy.
- Retra 10y agoThere's nothing that makes that the point of life, though. It's just a fact about it. Just as it is equally a fact about non-life.