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When unable to access the minutiae of some byzantine concept with my hominid navigation apparatus I often comfort myself with the knowledge that all that I know
by Fluid_Mechanics 6y ago
When unable to access the minutiae of some byzantine concept with my hominid navigation apparatus I often comfort myself with the knowledge that all that I know will ultimately be lost to the chaos of the universe and that the cumulative impact of everything I’ve ever done is utterly inconsequential.
- darkteflon 6y agoThanks, that’s a load off my shoulders.
- unixhero 6y agoYou are not the universe. You are you and this is your reality. In that reality, it matters. A lot.
- ukj 6y agoTHE universe? Which one? There are so many!
- WJW 6y agoIt only matters if you care. GP already mentioned that in their reality it actually does not matter.
- FlyingAvatar 6y agoSuch is the illusion we all have trained into ourselves.
- mattigames 6y ago> [all] will ultimately be lost to the chaos of the universe and that the cumulative impact of everything I’ve ever done is utterly inconsequential. What would be the alternative? An universe where our changes are more "permanent"? Ignoring the paradoxes that entails would it really make them more consequential or just more lasting? It would be completely subjetive, just like is subjetive to believe something matters even if it ends in a few years down the line.
- adrianN 6y agoIt would be nice if thermodynamics weren't such a harsh mistress.
- nonameiguess 6y agoImmortality would be a possible goal if heat death or big crunch wasn't the inevitable fate of everything.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIf you leave stuff as-is then you are probably right. But what if technology can solve that issue aswell?
- adrianN 6y agoThat would assume that physics as we understand it is fundamentally wrong. You might as well hope for an eternal afterlife in the garden of Eden.
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoHow many times have our understanding of physics have been fundamentally wrong in the past? What is the chance it will never happen again?
- adrianN 6y agoThe chances that the laws of thermodynamics are fundamentally wrong is pretty low. Asimov has a nice essay on this topic: https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.ht...
- ohduran 6y agoAllow for the possibility that you have something important to contribute to the world.
- ungamedplayer 6y agoAllow for it, but then realise in reality even something important is trivial.