The end of the Universe

[NOOBY93]

hurr

SENSELESS DRIVEL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oy6DwHAi70

[DDDsDD999]

And to answer your metaphor, if you buy trillions of lotto tickets, you have a pretty damn good chance of winning (that's more tickets than there are people on the world, FYI). We're not talking hundreds, but trillions in the least.

No one knows the chances of sentient life being created. A trillion "lottery tickets" could still be considered an inconceivably low chance of the occurrence of sentient life.

[dafels]

hello its me

[DDDsDD999]

hello its me

hey

[Jalpha]

Alright kids, you can boost your postcount again later lmao.

On perspectives... Our perspective of the purpose of the wildebeast is irrelevant, you are correct. There is one perspective of the purpose of the wildebeast which is unequivocally real and true, and that is the wildebeasts peespective of its own purpose. The wildebeast knows what it is and what it must do. The wildebeast is in harmony with the nature of itself and its environment. I can't say that no wildebeast ever pontificates its existence and the meaning of the Universe because maybe sometimes they do look up at the stars and wonder.

The fact remains that the wildebeast is more comfortable with its own existence than we are with our own. This is plainly obvious in our discontent and chaotic movements throughout our lives. We have gone several philosophical steps beyond the potential ponderings of the wildebeast. Indeed, it seems essential that we uncover a greater purpose for our existence as a species, and for the existence of all life on earth. Lest that life be extinguished in its entirety.

[sMartins]

Yeah bro, and we should also work to keep alive more diversity we can.
Starting from the plants we eat to ethnic groups, cultures and so on.
But for now, it looks clones are easier to manage.

[Zentetsuken]

purpose is a cluster of neurons

[MagicManICT]

@drake equation: another thing this didn't answer in its proposition is a matter of when. Given the age of the universe, we could be the only existing sentient species in the Universe currently. The odds are we probably aren't and probably aren't the only one in our own galaxy, but whatever. People can pretend that the Earth is still flat, so why not pretend that we're the only possible sentience existing now?

@jalpha: if it's a matter of "survive as a species" by getting ourselves off this rock and onto others, I agree. If we don't, we'll commit voluntary genocide or some cosmic event will wipe us out.

What I believe: sentient life is the ultimate form of entropy, and that is the end goal--spread sentient life across the universe. Can I prove that belief? Nope, but I can provide a reasonable, logical explanation for it.

@decay and atrophy: just read an interesting article on the subject of AI, and some of the studies done into it with insects. The article I read alluded to further studies into insects about activity levels, such as this scientific paper (and probably others) on lazy workers. (Hope it's available to all and not gated by IP/country.) And it's amazing how certain human behaviors can be found even in the lowest of life forms with some form of neural processing.

onep is the angriest philosopher

Not even close.... There was a classic philosopher that was well known for angry outbursts, but forget who it was off top of my head.

[mvgulik]

Believers. Probably God's gift to Evolution to keep its creation (almost) bug free.
(Why Alien Life Would be our Doom) - The Great Filter.

Or perhaps it plastic. In which case Carbon ... has its own build-in failsafe against gaining to much power.
Plastic Pollution: (How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic)

And if that fails. There's probably a big red button on his desk labeled "Trash it".
The Most Efficient Way to Destroy the Universe – False Vacuum

... Large asteroid to hurtle past Earth on April 19 (2017)
... ( Darn, missed again. You really got to work on your aim there. )


And Now for Something Completely Different.
( Careful, potential brain altering stuff ahead. )
Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics)

[sMartins]

And Now for Something Completely Different.
( Careful, potential brain altering stuff ahead. )
Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics)

Nice, that show very well the difference beetween the uncertainty principle and the observer effect, that is a "collateral effect" due to the measurement.