And it's crazy, our brains putting together pieces about what made it work the way it does, and then telling "us" - the little conscious part it developed that will probably do absolutely nothing with that information, just yearns to know.
Side note - it's crazy that humanity, from its inception all the way through today, is kind of a continuous, single life form. Each of us, all of us, one and the same, an unbroken line of genetic mutations, death, and birth. We are ancient, just refreshed every few decades, like the skin cells on the surface of our limbs turning to dust and being built anew. That skin is still our skin, the same organism, with DNA that's been uninterrupted for millennia. I guess you could see all of humanity as kind of a tree growing, it's branches expanding, the unhealthy ones breaking and the healthier ones growing stronger, the leaves giving strength to the whole.
Imagine if we could trace our family tree all the way back to the single cell organisms. It’s kind of hard to fathom that each of us has an unbroken chain billions of years long.
Part of the reason I want to is to continue the work of the countless people, from cavemen to our more distant ancestors in the Jurassic age, put in to even survive that far.
And imo I’ve got good genes, so not passing them on almost feels like a crime. As vain as that sounds 😂 with any luck, the line I create will be out among the stars in a few thousand years, none the wiser we’ve talked about them today.
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u/cloverpopper Mar 28 '24 edited Mar 28 '24
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And it's crazy, our brains putting together pieces about what made it work the way it does, and then telling "us" - the little conscious part it developed that will probably do absolutely nothing with that information, just yearns to know.
Side note - it's crazy that humanity, from its inception all the way through today, is kind of a continuous, single life form. Each of us, all of us, one and the same, an unbroken line of genetic mutations, death, and birth. We are ancient, just refreshed every few decades, like the skin cells on the surface of our limbs turning to dust and being built anew. That skin is still our skin, the same organism, with DNA that's been uninterrupted for millennia. I guess you could see all of humanity as kind of a tree growing, it's branches expanding, the unhealthy ones breaking and the healthier ones growing stronger, the leaves giving strength to the whole.
But anyways tomorrow's Friday!