(January 30, 2013 at 7:22 pm)Ryantology Wrote: That's not to say that my brains are anything remarkable compared with other humans, they surely are not. But, human sentience is, as far as we can tell, a very special and unique thing, and even if it turns out that it is not entirely unique, the relatively insignificant amount of mass in this universe which makes thinking brains, all the thinking brains, anywhere in the universe, regardless of their limitations, is in a sense more significant than all the mass making up giant stars and galaxies.
Reminiscent of Sir Terry Pratchett's comments at the Grauniad Book Club, when he said that "Stars are not important; there is nothing interesting about stars. Streetlamps are very important, because they're so rare. As far as we know there's only a few million of them in the Universe. And they were built by monkeys!"
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
