• Toes♀@ani.social
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    6 hours ago

    Well, you would probably have the answer to if life is entirely deterministic. And if it is, you’ll probably have the ability to extrapolate the precise conditions that manifested yourself and this project. Which begs the question are you the original and does it matter?

  • Opinionhaver@feddit.uk
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    11 hours ago

    Finding out that we live in a simulation would change nothing about how I see other people or myself. That concept is perfectly compatible with how I’m living my life right now.

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    21 hours ago

    Into the microcosm. Watch it free on youTube. Really changed my entire perspective on living organisms. Stop worrying about who people are, and accept what they are. All lives have value, and they all end. There is no meaning. There is no punchline. You go until you stop, then you disperse back into the cycle of life and death never to be the same again. I’m not saying that nothing is everything. I’m saying everything has no intentional message or meaning. So respect the lives around you, refuse to add suffering to others, give everyone a chance to experience happiness in life where you can help. Stop reacting, stop needing, stop blaming yourself. You have value, your enough, allow yourself to take up space. To breath air. To occupy your own mind. It’s alright.

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      There is no meaning. There is no punchline. You go until you stop, then you disperse back into the cycle of life and death never to be the same again.

      This is true, but these type of statements are often formed as though the “you” is the first step. It misses something important. All of us are made of borrowed stuff. The water in our blood was some other animal’s piss at one point. The skin we’re so proud of were many times over leaves, dirt, shit, creatures, bacteria, algae, decaying carcass, pond scum, and then leaves a bunch more times. Each one of us are not the beginning of this, and we not the end either. If you want to go back even further, we’re all made up of the same smashed together hydrogen atoms that make up the ground we walk on and the surface of the sun.

      To think we are chosen or individually superior to others is pure hubris.

      So respect the lives around you, refuse to add suffering to others, give everyone a chance to experience happiness in life where you can help.

      This so much!

      • SendMePhotos@lemmy.world
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        20 hours ago

        I love you both. I appreciate your time here and hope that you are successful in your endeavors. Cherish your time with those you love and doing what you love doing. Best wishes.

  • Kissaki@feddit.org
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    11 hours ago

    Can we even reasonably determine or guess that? We are not in that situation after all.

    We can make guesses, but they are fundamentally rooted in our single reality.

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    22 hours ago

    I guess we already are watching that. We couldn’t function without all the microscopic life… bugs in our bellies, bugs in our eyes, bugs that help feed us