• nifty@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Well ours is the only species which can probe and understand why there is something instead of nothing. There may not be any intrinsic value in anything, but the act of discovery is meaningful.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      I just want to point out that ours is the only species that we know of that can do those things.

      It’s pure hubris to think that we’re the only ones in billions on billions of stars with potentially more than 10x that many planets in the universe that has sapience sufficient to ask the questions. Statistics says it’s extremely unlikely that humans are the only sapient life in the universe.