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When we go to space we will absolutely take fruiting plants with us. Are we just the legs and reproductive organs of the plants?
by ljlolel 1y ago
When we go to space we will absolutely take fruiting plants with us. Are we just the legs and reproductive organs of the plants?
- dvrj101 1y agowe might as well take a cat, are we still serving goddess Bastet ?
- breckenedge 1y agoWe’re just meat tubes for microbe mobility.
- HKH2 1y agoControlled by our RNA overlords.
- nis0s 1y agoWe’re just talking about evolution now, which is to be expected. The molecular bits are more subject to stochastic processes than humans because conscious-level control of themselves and their environment is an important differentiator for beings with some higher level of cognition.
- ghssds 1y agoMaybe someday we'll be the reproductive organs of the biosphere as a whole, giving birth to other biospheres on another planets.
- armchairhacker 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore Or we're just the cells of cultures, or religions, or corporations, or governments, or the ecosystem consisting of all biological life, or the universe. Or each of us is the more-structurally-defined society or construction of a group of cells, or DNA, or molecules.
- goatlover 1y agoWhat function does the word "just" serve in these kinds of statements? Humans are "just" collections of atoms. So is all other ordinary matter, but what does that mean? Humans are "just" colony of cells. So is all other multi-cellular life, but what is the significance? Everything is "just" excited fields waving or strings vibrating, but again, what does that tell us above some fundamental level?
- armchairhacker 1y agoUnfortunately "just" is filler, I try to be concise but wasn't there. In fact it's worse, by "or" I really mean "and/or"; in a way, we're simultaneously the cells of cultures and religions and etc. The point is that we typically think of humans as "conscious" and "alive", but consciousness isn't physical; whether a human is conscious or a "ghost in the shell" makes no difference to the universe. In theory, a cell or ecosystem could also be "conscious", "sensing" and "thinking", since it also makes no difference. Furthermore, although its sensations and thoughts would be much different than any human's, they aren't completely unimaginable. For example, an ecosystem reacts to changes, experiments, and adapts via evolution (and cells react to things and display some level of sentience). Thus, evolution can be considered a form of thinking: like how we form and execute ideas to survive and prosper, an ecosystem forms and creates species to increase the coverage of life over the planet.
- card_zero 1y agoEvolution creates knowledge, but it certainly doesn't cogitate, otherwise it would design things rationally and with purpose. Instead we get eyes that filter light through their own nerve circuitry, and lots of side effects and happy accidents, and millions of kinds of beetle, and no wheels.
- nis0s 1y agoSure, and then we’ll change any aspect about that fruit or plant to suit our needs in a new environment. Co-evolution and parasitic evolution is a pretty cool thing itself.
- goatlover 1y agoThe robotic ships we send out aren't. I never understand that need to deny that in certain ways (but not other ways), humans are exceptionally different from all other life on this planet. Which results in sophisticated, world-altering, space-exploring technologies. For better or worse. And it's what we look for most in the stars. To detect not just alien life, but technological civilizations.