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> If there is a "god", we are still nothing special, just more stardust... How did you arrive at that conclusion? With or without a god, and barring any new ev
by s__s 3y ago
> If there is a "god", we are still nothing special, just more stardust...
How did you arrive at that conclusion? With or without a god, and barring any new evidence, sentient life seems to stand out as mind-blowing special and amazing.
> looking at the sheer size of the universe, supposing that we have any special place in it is sheerest hubris.
I don’t think it logically follows that our physical size relative to the size of the universe can tell us anything meaningful at all.
- JohnFen 3y ago> sentient life seems to stand out as mind-blowing special and amazing "I used to think that the brain was the most amazing thing in the universe. Then I remembered what it was that was telling me that." -- Emo Phillips