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Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by turnsout »

geenkeuse wrote: post #30

We still have a long way to go to beat this draw distance, but we are on our way. The day will come when we have "sentient" beings, living in a massive world created by us. And they will ponder the same things as we do now. And we will remain invisible and out of reach, but completely observant, and influential in their world. After all, we wrote the program. And they will study the code and discover their own "natur…

What benefit do you get from this line of thought? You could also be a brain in a jar. What would you change about your life or behavior?

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by gorgoiler »

ekianjo wrote: post #14
bikamonki wrote: post #7

So many solar systems out there, life evolved in many planets for sure. No proof but no doubt.

Life? Probably. Something that has thinking capabilities? Much more doubtful.

What is the probability that two raindrops land at the same time?

It is pitch dark. Could one raindrop survive long enough to at least hear the sound of another landing before it disintegrates?

Is the time between the drop striking the plane and the drop smashing apart so short that no drop ever hears another, or even sees evidence that any drop other than itself ever existed?

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by m3kw9 »

ekianjo wrote: post #17
m3kw9 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One proof is that we are thinking, and so are dogs, cats and monkeys to a lesser extent.

That's Earth. There is no model to say that life always goes on that way. We just have no clue.

I think you fail to see the sheer probability just from the number of galaxies and the timeline itself where life can form and extinguish in even few million years. Every planet in the universe gets various amount of tries over eons

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by dr_kiszonka »

turnsout wrote: post #31
geenkeuse wrote: post #30

We still have a long way to go to beat this draw distance, but we are on our way. The day will come when we have "sentient" beings, living in a massive world created by us. And they will ponder the same things as we do now. And we will remain invisible and out of reach, but completely observant, and influential in their world. After all, we wrote the program. And they will study the code and discover their own "natur…

What benefit do you get from this line of thought? You could also be a brain in a jar. What would you change about your life or behavior?

It's fun to think for the sake of thinking.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by smaddox »

geenkeuse wrote: post #30

We still have a long way to go to beat this draw distance, but we are on our way. The day will come when we have "sentient" beings, living in a massive world created by us. And they will ponder the same things as we do now. And we will remain invisible and out of reach, but completely observant, and influential in their world. After all, we wrote the program. And they will study the code and discover their own "natur…

Exponential slowdowns at each level ruin this hypothesis.

Re: First images from Euclid are in

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Post by rvnx »

ekianjo wrote: post #14
bikamonki wrote: post #7

So many solar systems out there, life evolved in many planets for sure. No proof but no doubt.

Life? Probably. Something that has thinking capabilities? Much more doubtful.

It depends what you call Life.

If it is a machine that can reproduce itself, growth, collect energy, use energy, do actions based on events, etc, then animals match this profile (perhaps even plants), and also, at some point computer will probably reach that goal.

Despite that, computers won't have a "soul", so where this soul comes from is a big mystery.

I'm not even sure that two humans can prove with certainty that the other ones has a soul, this is still an unsolved problem.

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