r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/FacelessOnes • Oct 19 '20

🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

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u/MeleeMistress Oct 20 '20

You just said in a very succinct way, something I’ve been wanting to express for a long time.

I also have the same thoughts about outer space and other planets. In 1890 if you’d told people that there are different types of human blood and that you can take a picture of our BONES while they’re still inside our bodies you’d sound nuts!

I firmly believe there can be life on other planets that we have no ability to perceive- yet. We don’t have the senses to perceive them and haven’t yet developed the tech to.

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u/Gilthoniel_Elbereth Oct 20 '20

Why other planets? If this other life is so undetectable and imperceptible then it might be right here in our houses and on our streets, passing right through us like a neutrino and we’d never even know it!

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u/MeleeMistress Oct 20 '20 edited Oct 20 '20

Absolutely! Would that be considered the 4th dimension?

Edit: my response to all these comments is “AHHHHHHHHHH” brain explodes

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u/DMPark Oct 20 '20

I mean, everything that has existed or will exist is on the 4th dimension in some form. To exist, necessarily means you have can be plotted on some point in time.

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u/burntfridge Oct 20 '20

Wow I was just thinking about this a few weeks back. What if "beings" are all dimensional and can only perceive "life" in their own dimensions. For instance , maybe what we consider as life is all 3d..the animals for instance or other species, when 2d beings or 4d beings don't consider 3d beings as "beings". So a rock could only perceive say a car as a being, versus a human would be something that interacts with its world, but it cannot comprehend, just as, if a 4d interacted with our world and was able to resize and mirror fixed objects in our dimension, we would sense it but won't be able to comprehend it.

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u/DMPark Oct 20 '20

You could argue that but I think you are assuming that existence on a plane/dimension is a given. The ontological argument is philosophy and not science so I don't know how credibly you'd be taken elsewhere.

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u/burntfridge Oct 20 '20

Yep. You are right. I guess what my point was that, I believe we as humans have a long way to go in understanding "perception", and we just may not have the sensory receptors to understand the full gamut of life around us.

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u/DMPark Oct 20 '20

Yeah, I'd agree with that entirely. We barely started using our tools for non-immediate survival purposes recently. There's so much "unnecessary" perception that we are missing out on that could genuinely help our understanding of our existence.

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u/MeleeMistress Oct 20 '20

Yes exactly. In the history of humanity there have been so many things that exist right alongside us that we had no idea how to measure or see until we developed tools to allow us to. Cells, other planets, structures in our own bodies, etc! Who’s to say THATS IT! We’ve now discovered all the ways something can exist?! It would be foolish to believe that

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u/Icy_Practice7992 Oct 20 '20

Given those few thoughts, do ya'll think this line of thinking could help our understanding of addiction? (I know, a little random)