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How do you proof that there is no possibility of universal terminal goal?
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 27/05/2021 10:19:56How do you proof that there is no possibility of universal terminal goal?Because plants and animals are inherently on opposite sides, and life requires both.
Do you think that all animals are in the same side?Do you think that bees and flowering plants are on opposite sides?What should plants do if they want to survive the event when the earth merge with the sun?
Some animals eat plants, some animals eat animals. A few plants eat animals.
No amount of hypothetical evolution can escape the fact that most plants absorb CO2 and exhale oxygen, and all animals do the opposite. Without some dynamic balance between the two, all living things would die. Therefore the fundamental enmity between plants and animals is essential for the survival of both..
I rather feel that if you stopped a cow eating grass, it wouldn't be a cow. It wouldn't inhale oxygen, so the grass would gradually poison itself, and it wouldn't exhale CO2, so trees couldn't grow. You require a wholly different ecology in which no living thing eliminates waste. Not sure this is thermodynamically achievable.
We should be aware that our descendants/successors may have completely different shapes or forms than us, they may not even be similar to one another.
You are looking for a degree of symbiosis that has only been observed in lichens. No problem from my point of view, but you may be disappointed to realise that by your definition the stuff growing on your roof has a higher level of consciousness than yourself!
Apparently. They colonised you, regulated their population to a sustainable level, and determined almost everything about your mood and behavior: when they are hungry or thirsty, they tell you to eat and drink, and if they don't like your choice of food, they encourage you to get rid of it. You can vote Labour as often as you like, but you can't get rid of a bad government.
But now we can decide which microbiome should live inside us, which one should die,
Quote from: hamdani yusuf on 02/06/2021 23:42:57But now we can decide which microbiome should live inside us, which one should die, So there is an inevitable conflict of interests, and only human vanity decides which should win. No sign of a universal goal!
Here’s a thought: What IS a thought? I know it involves my brain, and my brain is made of neurons. And my brain’s neurons are listening to other neurons all over my body. But how do those neurons actually work? Maybe you’ve heard that it involves electricity, but does that mean you’ve got little zaps and lightning bolts running through your veins like Pikachu? Don’t worry, I’m here to set you straight on what a neuron is, what an action potential is, and how fast your nervous system really communicates.
Oxygen is pretty great stuff, but this recently discovered organism couldn’t care less about oxygen. It breathes nitrogen and may offer a window into how the types of cells in OUR bodies may have evolved billions of years ago.
A good moral standard would tell us if we behave like a good or bad scaffolding. It would inevitably prioritize things according to their impacts to the future of consciousness. There would be sacrifices in one form or another.
Sometimes, our unwillingness to make some sacrifices simply means our willingness to make even bigger sacrifices.