Discards, " - I reached a point in my mind where the infinity of space was obvious. It 'blows' your mind, so to speak. " I believe as you do that i have conceived of infinity, at least in terms of space and nothingness. I did this around the age of 13 (now 23) and i don't recommend it to a...

(quote not shown) I see what you're getting at with the first point, but it seems to me that we are biologically equally as complex as all other mammals. As an example, take neural systems, those of humans is only as biologically as complex as a mammal of equal size and more complex than that of an ...

(quote not shown) Firstly i agree, I don't think there is an objective measure of anything. Only humans measure (assuming only humans are conscious) and no human can be objective as we are burdened with the knowledge of our own existence. Besides that, original question, importance is also totally s...

Not the existential contemplation of existence. Where can we draw the line on what is a living organism and what is not? Is self replication enough to call it life? Or to put the bar a little higher does it need to be restricted to a certain level of complexity - restricted to RND and DNA? How do we...

Organisms that are here, are here because their genetic predisessors strived to survive, passing on that gene.
Think for a second, if an organism does not try to survive, it dies and does not reproduce. The only species that
reproduce are those with a drive to survive genetically coded.

(quote not shown) Having disussed this at length while walking through an art gallery, I (and my brother) came to the conclusion that: A tree is not art, it is functional, it's purpose is not to look nice, but to live, however a photo, a painting, a model or any human intervention may turn this tree...