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Who knows, maybe we’ll find a disagreement and this will become an interesting argument :) Sure, other organisms are not relevant to our survival. What I thou
by goblin89 9y ago
Who knows, maybe we’ll find a disagreement and this will become an interesting argument :)
Sure, other organisms are not relevant to our survival.
What I thought is that if we become able to capture lots of energy from e.g. our local star to maintain a huge sphere of order and low entropy within our habitat, that’d remove the conflict between us vs. other organisms. Basically “our survival” would be expanded to the survival of the whole system of conscious lifeforms we have around.
I mean, on one hand, preserving our natural habitat might keep us humans smart and efficiently developing new cool ways of capturing & dissipating energy at larger scales.
On the other hand, perhaps preserving the whole system of organisms engaging in things like killing each other for whatever purpose within our giant low-entropy sphere will be utterly useless from the universal meaning of life point of view—as in, not at all contributing to energy capture and dissipation.
If that’ll be the case I imagine we’ll evolve quite differently… Something very cyberpunk and AI-heavy comes to mind. Simpler organisms would keep dying away as we & our technology alone skyrocket in accordance with that universal purpose all the way, all the way until the expedited heat death of the universe. Kinda scary how us meatbags too become optional in that scenario.