• Bob@feddit.nlEnglish
    6·
    15 days ago

    The paragraphing has gone all the way through readable back to “I’m not reading this”.

  • JackGreenEarth@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    16 days ago

    Life is anything that moves, reproduces, senses, grows, respires, excretes and eats.

    Consciousness is more mysterious and less well defined.

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      16 days ago

      Yes, but how do living things come into existence? What makes a cell alive?

      It’s not about defining what a living being is.

        • dessimbelackis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          15 days ago

          “And so people come to sorts of agreements about, uh, how much of a wiggle is a wiggle; that is to say a thing. One wiggle, you can always reduce any one wiggle into sub-wiggles. Or see it as a subordinate wiggle in a bigger wiggle. But there’s no real fixed rule about it”

    • buttfarts@lemy.lolEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      According to the Lotus Sutra the Earth is also a sentient being.

      The Chan School of Buddhism says that all phenomena are mind. There is nothing that is not mind. We, as humans, are a mind in a mind.

      • portuga@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        15 days ago

        No that’s not exactly right. It’s not that everything is only mind. Our subjective experience is only mind, you don’t actually see experience as it is but instead your experience of life is only mind in the sense it gets filtered by your sensory apparatus and hence it isn’t real as you don’t really sense reality as you are capable of. Doesn’t mean reality doesn’t exist if you’re not looking

  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    15 days ago

    I hate that this is popular. This is a creationist level understanding of the big bang.

    You ever use a spray can for a while and the can gets cold? It’s more like that.

  • niktemadur@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    16 days ago

    But it wasn’t really an explosion, it was more like a spontaneous, insane inflation that found itself suddenly huge and empty, only after it was through with that particular stage did it zap itself full of energy and matter everywhere all at once. Then it continued growing in volume and thinning out via regular ol’ relativistic expansion.

    EDIT: looking a little bit closer, there’s the thing about zapping all over itself after Inflation, it was almost perfectly half-and-half matter/antimatter, which then proceeded to join and annihilate into pure energy, but for some reason probably related to the Weak Force, just a little bit more matter was created than antimatter.

    And that’s what we are and see today, 1 part out of every 8 million-and-one. For every 4,000,000 parts antimatter, there were 4,000,001 parts matter, only that 1 left over particle of matter, multiplied a bazillion times.

    That’s just a whole other level of amazing than just saying “an explosion”.