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The ultimate goal of humans / or any other sentient group that secedes us is to escape the heat death of the universe. Like it or not that's what life is for. W
by barrenko 3y ago
The ultimate goal of humans / or any other sentient group that secedes us is to escape the heat death of the universe. Like it or not that's what life is for. We're escape artists.
- 082349872349872 3y agoThe third law puts a damper on that teleology. (also, any discount factor from 0 up to 1)
- tomrod 3y agoDown with nihilist absurdity and it's enablement!
- simonh 3y agoI forget who, but in the early 90s a famous SF author was asked by a fan if he thought he was put on earth to write his books. He replied that he was put on earth to play Sid Meier's Civilization, writing books was what he did to pay the bills.
- somenameforme 3y agoIt is kind of funny to think of things in that context, because it's absolutely true. This planet will eventually face another mass extinction event, like the countless to have come prior - and we're well overdue. We may yet escape that, yet eventually most of this entire solar system will be overcome by the sun as it cools and expands outward. And we may yet escape that. But then there's undoubtedly yet new discoveries we'll make to show how galaxies also eventually die. And then of course there's the issue of finally dealing with the universe itself. Though by that point, if history is any guide, we'll have long since discovered that even the universe itself is far from the final act in this peculiar game.
- anthk 3y agoBy that time I'd expect mutiverse travelling.
- tomrod 3y agoI've always considered this a much more motivating principle than all the world's religions combined (though Buddhism's take on suffering is informative). Survival of sentience beyond the death of the universe. It would be nice if my sentience is part of it, but at a minimum it gives a nice middle finger to nihilist absurdity.