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It’s stuff like this that makes me think that we often forget how amazing life really is, and how we take something for granted just because we constantly see i
by hnarn 6y ago
It’s stuff like this that makes me think that we often forget how amazing life really is, and how we take something for granted just because we constantly see it even though we don’t understand anything about it. How there’s this mechanism right before our eyes creating these amazingly and incomprehensibly complex structures, these organisms, that somehow end up with what we can only name “instincts” or “consciousness” because we lack better words.
We have no idea how any of this is happening and all we can do is cut it up and maybe look at the pieces through some sharpened glass, like a bunch of chimpanzees smashing apart a thousand dollar wrist watch.
The more you think about it, the more captivating, and maybe a little bit sad, it becomes.
- contingencies 6y agoI can heartily recommend joining iNaturalist @ http://inaturalist.org/ http://inaturalist.org/ ... great way to learn about biology, including marine biology.
- PikachuEXE 6y agoThanks for the recommendation Will look what others discovered around my place
- cmdshiftf4 6y ago>maybe look at the pieces through some sharpened glass, like a bunch of chimpanzees smashing apart a thousand dollar wrist watch. Or worse yet, find a way to exploit that destruction for profit. >maybe a little bit sad Personally I find it devastating. Taking a 20,000 foot view of our species and the impact of its presence on this planet is bleak at best.