What if life's evolutionary end point is always sentience?
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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Then life is even more pointless and cruel than it appears.
That would be poetically fitting for an universe determined to die a heat death.
"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
presses X to doubt
See for yourself.
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1938/09.htm
I know he said that, I'm saying his conclusion was incorrect.
So you're saying matter is a product of the mind? Or what "conclusion" are you talking about
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I'm still rooting for Idealism or the immortal soul to somehow be a thing.
Go Banana!
It’s OK. Consciousness is but a brief anomaly in the vast sea of time.
Speak for yourself. I try not to think.
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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.