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> It must be terrifying if you're a galactic entity and have experience, awareness, and consciousness, but no autonomy w.r.t. movement, trapped in a trillion-ye
by TMWNN 3y ago
> It must be terrifying if you're a galactic entity and have experience, awareness, and consciousness, but no autonomy w.r.t. movement, trapped in a trillion-year path that you cannot escape.
Surely such an entity would not see itself being trapped at all, any more than a tree does. It is what it is.
On the contrary, it probably pities humans, asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and everything and anything else that is smaller, younger, with a shorter lifespan, or less energetic.
- elevaet 3y agoThat analogy really cracked me up since we have no idea what it's like to be a tree either.