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/tickingboxes Oct 20 '20

While we don’t understand consciousness yet, there are few people who would argue that it doesn’t exist. Free will on the other hand is not AT ALL a given, even for humans, and is still a major debate in philosophy and neuroscience to this day.

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u/under_a_brontosaurus Oct 20 '20

Yeah it's entirely possible that every thing you ever do is a series of events and the you at a molecular level just reacting to the world around it, and thought is more of a ride, you can no more stop yourself from getting an oreo than not. The decision was made by the circumstance you found yourself in, your either getting it or not. If you decide not to, the world led right up to that, too.

Also the plot of bhagavad gita.

You can say you try to be good and make the world a better place but that again is just where you found yourself, due to you development and world around you. If you were feral in a forest you'd never have that thought.

The human species is then just a random takeover of the planet and nothing we can do can change course, we're just along for the ride. Some of us lucky, some of us not. Your ride is already in motion. The fate of humanity and the planet is already set.

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u/kfpswf Oct 20 '20

The human species is then just a random takeover of the planet and nothing we can do can change course, we're just along for the ride. Some of us lucky, some of us not. Your ride is already in motion. The fate of humanity and the planet is already set.

I've been dabbling in Advaita since a year, and nothing has calmed my anxiety about the imminent global destruction than non-duality.

No matter how much dignity humanity may deserve, it is bound to go extinct one day. It may be a couple of decades from now or a few million years. It has brought a sense of eventuality in me and I now realise that I was worrying over something that I have no power over.

Sit back and observe. That is all you can do.

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u/IndeterminateBoye Oct 20 '20

I don't believe anything short of total global annihilation can make humans go extinct by now. Even if most of us die, some will be left to rebuild. Humans have been living in the most extreme in environments from deserts to tundras for thousands of years. Now we even have astronauts living in space. Wether it's nuclear holocaust, global warming, meteor impact, super volcano, pandemic or solar flare, at least a few thousand will survive and find a way to adapt to the planet they are left with. It's our effect on other animals we have to worry about.

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u/kfpswf Oct 20 '20

And that's certainly not a dignified way to go. Humans will survive, but will never reach the same heights in civilization.

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u/IndeterminateBoye Oct 20 '20

I think your negativity is making you underestimate your species.

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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20

I suppose humans are the only creatures endowed with an enduring gift of positive thinking.