• @yA3xAKQMbq@lemm.ee
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      1011 months ago

      and to really send it all home to you, eventually when the sun turns into a red giant it will consume the earth wiping out all of human history or anything you might have “left behind.”

      Wait, why stop here? After that, the universe will continue to expand and get colder until the Big Freeze.

      Be happy you can actually see the universe. Some aliens in a distant future might never be aware that there’s something else, because light will be shifted so far it’s impossible to understand. There will be less and less stars anyway, so it’s going to be a lot darker.

      Maybe protons aren’t actually stable and they will break apart too, at some point, and then the last thing will be black holes slowly dissolving due to Hawking radiation.

    • @ComradeKhoumrag
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      711 months ago

      Nah no way literally never gonna die nice try tho

    • @RedditRefugee69@lemm.ee
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      111 months ago

      Yeah also, they’re overlooking the fact that, while caused by chemicals, the feelings are still real and have value. Don’t believe me? Cut off your own hand and tell me how that feels

    • @Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      111 months ago

      Just enjoy the ride folks. We are here for a limited time. Try not to stress, do things you love and try not to be a dick to others in the process. You only get one chance to do this and today is the best day to start doing it right.

      you have a compelling argument, i’m droping college

  • Th4tGuyII
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    Do I detect a whiff of solipsism in the air?

    It’s true to a certain extent though. All you can know for sure is that your conscious self exists. Literally everything and any thing else could be a facsimile, an illusion…

    For all you know you’re just a Boltzman brain experiencing existence for the briefest moment before you decay to nothing.

    But none of that really matters, we’re the ones who give our lives meaning, so you might as well enjoy what you got while you still got it, whether it be chemicals or whatever the fuck.

  • @randomdeadguy@lemmy.world
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    Gonna perish like a dog anyway. It was going well until the neo-feudalist call to arms. Dogs are based, dogs didn’t kill the planet. The contrast in tone between the text response and Mickey’s face is funny tho

  • @Chickenstalker@lemmy.world
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    711 months ago

    Biology is complexity out of simplicity. Those mere chemical processes you deride involve enzymes, hormones, feedback mechanisms, homestasis, all working together. The simplest bacterium is more complex than any machine we ever made.

  • vlad
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    -111 months ago

    Thankfully there are things called facts.