(December 11, 2015 at 4:12 pm)Evie Wrote: You really think we'll last hundreds of millions of years?
You know how long that is compared to how long we've been on the planet so far, right?
You're the one making a definite claim here. You're saying we will get wiped out somehow, because all species do. I'm just pointing out a fundamental difference between our species and all the other ones that invalidates that reasoning. I don't know if we will last hundreds of millions of years. If we weren't knowledge creators, I could be pretty much certain that we wouldn't. That's not the case, though. There are halfway-decent reasons to think we might just last that long. If we populate the galaxy, the loss of one solar system won't extinguish us. If we get to other galaxies, admittedly a very challenging problem from our current perspective, then we pretty much have the entropic death of the universe to worry about. And there may be some way to resolve that problem, who knows. I've read proposals. I don't rule out the proposition that knowledge-creators are here to stay, period.
