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I don't know why but I just love being able to read all of this fascinating information in such a compact form, just amazing! Heading back over to read the rest

I don't know why but I just love being able to read all of this fascinating information in such a compact form, just amazing! Heading back over to read the rest now!

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago
> fascinating information ...you don't find it uncomfortable or distressing to be confronted with the dry facts and hard-limits of the 1.5Kg squishy-pink prison we're all trapped-inside and all condemned to die inside?
- Terr_ 2y ago
  > “Not at all,” said the medtech. “Think of all the work he represents on somebody’s part. Nine months of pregnancy, childbirth, two years of diapering, and that’s just the beginning. Tens of thousands of meals, thousands of bedtime stories, years of school. Dozens of teachers. And all that military training, too. A lot of people went into making him.” She smoothed a strand of the corpse’s hair into place. “That head held the universe, once.” -- Aftermaths by Lois McMaster Bujold
- danwills 2y ago
  Quite the opposite for me it kinda just makes it seem even more amazing that it exists and works at all and how much humans have worked out about it! There's some interesting regenerative medicine avenues (Michael Levin's stuff, planarian worms don't die from old age) that I have some hope might eventually slightly reduce the 'condemned to die' side of the picture for humans also.
- gary_0 2y ago
  It's so delicate, too. Drop the squishy pink thing and its ancillary support-meat on a random part of Earth and most likely it drowns in an ocean, freezes on a mountainside, dries out in a desert, or starves in a wasteland. That's leaving aside the other 99.99999999% of the universe where it chokes on vacuum or is blasted by radiation. And even in a perfect habitat with an ideal genotype and phenotype, its functional lifetime is a mere century bookended by billions of years of nonexistence. So yeah. I try not to think about all that.
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  - protomolecule 2y ago
    >the other 99.99999999% of the universe You are off by so many orders of magnitude.
- cen4 2y ago
  And many of those numbers aren't static. They change. The Theory of Bounded Rationality emerged as a reaction to growing awareness within the chimp troupe, of the numerous limitations of that chimp brain. Its a useful tool when coping with complex ever changing reality.
- layer8 2y ago
  How does it make any difference about being trapped and dying?
- dennis_jeeves2 2y ago
  >...you don't find it uncomfortable or Well, you have heard it: Ignorance is bliss. That's how the masses survive.

I don't know why but I just love being able to read all of this fascinating information in such a compact form, just amazing! Heading back over to read the rest now!

DaiPlusPlus 2y ago

> fascinating information ...you don't find it uncomfortable or distressing to be confronted with the dry facts and hard-limits of the 1.5Kg squishy-pink prison we're all trapped-inside and all condemned to die inside?

Terr_ 2y ago
> “Not at all,” said the medtech. “Think of all the work he represents on somebody’s part. Nine months of pregnancy, childbirth, two years of diapering, and that’s just the beginning. Tens of thousands of meals, thousands of bedtime stories, years of school. Dozens of teachers. And all that military training, too. A lot of people went into making him.” She smoothed a strand of the corpse’s hair into place. “That head held the universe, once.” -- Aftermaths by Lois McMaster Bujold
danwills 2y ago
Quite the opposite for me it kinda just makes it seem even more amazing that it exists and works at all and how much humans have worked out about it! There's some interesting regenerative medicine avenues (Michael Levin's stuff, planarian worms don't die from old age) that I have some hope might eventually slightly reduce the 'condemned to die' side of the picture for humans also.
gary_0 2y ago
It's so delicate, too. Drop the squishy pink thing and its ancillary support-meat on a random part of Earth and most likely it drowns in an ocean, freezes on a mountainside, dries out in a desert, or starves in a wasteland. That's leaving aside the other 99.99999999% of the universe where it chokes on vacuum or is blasted by radiation. And even in a perfect habitat with an ideal genotype and phenotype, its functional lifetime is a mere century bookended by billions of years of nonexistence. So yeah. I try not to think about all that.
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- protomolecule 2y ago
  >the other 99.99999999% of the universe You are off by so many orders of magnitude.
cen4 2y ago
And many of those numbers aren't static. They change. The Theory of Bounded Rationality emerged as a reaction to growing awareness within the chimp troupe, of the numerous limitations of that chimp brain. Its a useful tool when coping with complex ever changing reality.
layer8 2y ago
How does it make any difference about being trapped and dying?
dennis_jeeves2 2y ago
>...you don't find it uncomfortable or Well, you have heard it: Ignorance is bliss. That's how the masses survive.