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Are We Important to the Universe?

3 points by febin 9y ago

mattbgates 9y ago
Interesting question, but I'd think we can deduce it by asking: Do we really matter to an object that we have determined is about 15 billion years old by what we can measure? There are trillions of ants on this Earth. Does a single ant in any particular colony really matter to a 90 year old human being? Probably not. Now here's another interesting way to look at it which does give value and purpose to every mass in existence in the universe: the universe is a coding platform. It is capable of writing its own code, which in turn, creates objects that contain elements which can create beings that are self-aware, thus it may be that the universe uses its own artificial intelligence to create us, and therefore we might just be artificially intelligent, only to the extent that our minds allow us, and while the imagination seems capable of everything, our capabilities are limited by the resources we have available. In the grand scheme of things, when writing code, does a single line of code actually matter? It only matters when it is given a purpose to perform a function that helps the rest of the application. Upon completion of the entire application, that one line likely matters. Before then, it matters to the extent that it is getting called and making things happen. Are human beings simply a line of code necessary for the development to further the universe? Or in the grand scheme of things, are we really necessary for the universe to operate, or does it go on without us? We have had the advantage of becoming one of the most numerous species on the planet, numbers in the billions, though many insects number in the trillions. Destroy the Earth. Did we ever truly matter? The universe would still go on. Thus, I think we are only important for ourselves, not the universe. And the hundreds of thousands of species that existed before us, and the hundreds of thousands of species that will likely exist long after the last human being on this planet dies off, can attest to the fact that maybe the universe is simply an artificial platform to experience itself, unbound, uncaring, indifferent to the very things that happen within its vast space.

3 points by febin 9y ago

Interesting question, but I'd think we can deduce it by asking: Do we really matter to an object that we have determined is about 15 billion years old by what we can measure? There are trillions of ants on this Earth. Does a single ant in any particular colony really matter to a 90 year old human being? Probably not. Now here's another interesting way to look at it which does give value and purpose to every mass in existence in the universe: the universe is a coding platform. It is capable of writing its own code, which in turn, creates objects that contain elements which can create beings that are self-aware, thus it may be that the universe uses its own artificial intelligence to create us, and therefore we might just be artificially intelligent, only to the extent that our minds allow us, and while the imagination seems capable of everything, our capabilities are limited by the resources we have available. In the grand scheme of things, when writing code, does a single line of code actually matter? It only matters when it is given a purpose to perform a function that helps the rest of the application. Upon completion of the entire application, that one line likely matters. Before then, it matters to the extent that it is getting called and making things happen. Are human beings simply a line of code necessary for the development to further the universe? Or in the grand scheme of things, are we really necessary for the universe to operate, or does it go on without us? We have had the advantage of becoming one of the most numerous species on the planet, numbers in the billions, though many insects number in the trillions. Destroy the Earth. Did we ever truly matter? The universe would still go on. Thus, I think we are only important for ourselves, not the universe. And the hundreds of thousands of species that existed before us, and the hundreds of thousands of species that will likely exist long after the last human being on this planet dies off, can attest to the fact that maybe the universe is simply an artificial platform to experience itself, unbound, uncaring, indifferent to the very things that happen within its vast space.