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Ask HN: What is one question you want answered before you die?
Science has brought about many new realities to us in the last 150 years. If you could have the answer to one question (scientific or not) what would that question be and why?
- MockObject 7y agoRoswell. Just admit it.
- bfoks 7y agoWhat's Outside the Simulation? [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVf3P3zq7g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIVf3P3zq7g
- smartsystems 7y agoIt's simulations all the way down. What's at the very bottom? An entity hopelessly trying to escape the death of its own Universe. In fact, all of existence will end in .0000001 seconds but for us that's 100 billion years. But it will end (sorry superior God-like entity).
- zzo38computer 7y agoIs there a "very bottom"? I expect not. (But, I don't know.)
- cac1 7y agoHow not to die.
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- Vinceo 7y agoWhere does consciousness originate
- throw51319 7y agoObviously it's an evolutionary trait for us to propogate ourselves more effectively. Now the question is, why do living beings want to propogate themselves whereas inanimate objects don't?
- polishdude20 7y agoHey now, who are we to judge the mating habits of rocks?
- babygoat 7y agoWhy do you think it’s obvious?
- throw51319 7y agoConsciousness allows an ordered individual to stay ordered (survive and then reproduce).
- Vinceo 7y ago> Obviously it's an evolutionary trait for us to propogate ourselves more effectively. That doesn't answer the question of where it originates though.
- throw51319 7y agoOriginates from order. Once the disorder after the big bang slowed down, planets formed and then order started to form. At some point, the beings created from increasing order started to have conscious.
- meiraleal 7y agoWho brought me here?! And why :)
- actionowl 7y agoWill it blend?
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- maxwin 7y agowhat should I have done to extend my (healthy) lifespan for a decade or more.
- stakkur 7y agoWhy is JavaScript so popular?