There is no meaning to life
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Re: There is no meaning to life
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Re: There is no meaning to life
Another possibility is the "seeding" of other planets with billions of AI nanobots shot into space like spores. A bit like sowing a garden the day before you die - a crap shoot and you will never see it.
Logically, there must be many other equivalent species growing - or who have grown or will emerge in the future - on at least some of the quadrillions of Earthlike planets in the habitable zone of Sunlike stars in the universe (apparently about 11 billion in the Milky Way alone). Still, ours may not be a outcrop of life with the potential to go as far as some others. Maybe we will hit a dead end, producing not better than "spores"? That's how it's looking ATM.
Still, just as extinct species are part of the tapestry of life, extinct planetary civilisations will also be part of a story more grand and complex than they can imagine (just as trilobites could not imagine, say, the International Space Station). So meaning comes to me by simply being impressed by the world, the Sun, the galaxy and the universe and what it's doing. We are all part of it.
My gut feeling is that life and consciousness are not accidents, no more than birth, maturing and dying are accidents. Abiogenesis appears to be an intrinsic potential of organic chemistry over time under certain conditions. Alas, with a sample size of one, at present one can only wonder and wait for more examples.
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