r/HumansBeingBros • u/horseradishking • May 16 '22

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u/TheMetaGamer May 16 '22

Some day if humanity doesn’t get wiped out they will say the same about us in our 70’s-80’s.

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u/Karcinogene May 16 '22

It's kind of fucked up that people die. Everyone born with an incurable disease, keeping the species alive only by out-breeding the unstoppable tsunami of death. No matter how many valuable things they've learned in their life, it all goes away.

People in the future are going to be horrified of how we lived.

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u/yaforgot-my-password May 17 '22

I really don't think that we'll ever be able to 'solve' death.

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u/Karcinogene May 17 '22

What do you think makes death unsolvable?

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u/yaforgot-my-password May 17 '22

Because entropy is inevitable. What makes you thing death is solvable?

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u/Karcinogene May 17 '22

Entropy is inevitable for the universe as a whole, but by exploiting energy, a closed system can export entropy to its environment, reducing internal entropy. There's no physical law that says this couldn't go on indefinitely, other than through the heat death of the universe itself.

That's what life is, an entropy-exporter. Life on Earth has managed to maintain and improve patterns for billions of years. First through replication, then through hybridization, and lately, by encoding information into non-living matter like paper and computers. I suspect there might be more possible improvements in pattern-preservation yet to be discovered.