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It will cease to have value when there's nobody left to value it.
by goatlover 9y ago
It will cease to have value when there's nobody left to value it.
- icebraining 9y agoWhy? Can't we value things that will exist in a future where we no longer belong?
- goatlover 9y agoWe can value whatever, but eventually there won't be anyone left to do the valuing. Impermanence doesn't stop us from valuing, but impermanence does guarantee that value won't last. Which may or may not bother us now, depending on how existentially grumpy we feel in the moment. But luckily, those feelings are impermanent as well.
- simonh 9y agoAll true, but of course the point of the idea we're discussing here is that there may not be any reason to assign special weight to the value of things in the present or the future, over the value of things in the past.
- CuriouslyC 9y agoIt can value itself. After all, that's what it's doing now via us. It doesn't necessarily have to configure itself into something like a human to perceive and appreciate itself.
- gowld 9y agoWhat is "it" when "it" is purely random noise? By definition and known physics, heat-death of the universe means there is absolutely no configuration.
- CuriouslyC 9y agoIs the noise truly random, or is it just unpredictable? Does the maximization of entropy indicate no deviations from equilibrium will spontaneously occur? Does the lack of memory indicate a lack of consciousness?