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[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if life's evolutionary end point is always sentience?

[–] theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then life is even more pointless and cruel than it appears.

[–] Zementid@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago

That would be poetically fitting for an universe determined to die a heat death.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"The material, sensuously perceptible world to which we ourselves belong is the only reality.... Our consciousness and thinking, however supra-sensuous they may seem, are the product of a material, bodily organ, the brain. Matter is not a product of mind, but mind itself is merely the highest product of matter." — Karl Marx

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 1 month ago

It’s OK. Consciousness is but a brief anomaly in the vast sea of time.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I'm still rooting for Idealism or the immortal soul to somehow be a thing.

Go Banana!

[–] Wizzard@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Speak for yourself. I try not to think.

[–] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago
[–] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Action potential doesn't do thinking. Thinking happens at neuron junctions and that shits chemical and analogue. The electrical part just moves the data to the next synapse. There are some gap junctions but those aren't really associated with thinking.

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