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To eat all the things.
Nietzsche
That is what is depicted in this scene from the current movie, Everything, Everywhere, All at Once. There are many universes and in this one they are rocks in a lifeless world.By the anthropic principle some universes have life in them and they're the only ones that can be observed. This is not the purpose of life, it's just random chance.
Love this, added cats. Also adds, reading a good book.The purpose of life is to drink whisky, eat chocolate, pet goats and cats, smell the flowers, watch the stars and buy shoes. All else is mere existence.
I always thought of that bit as being a little too binary. Like, why not both? To be for now, and then later, not to be. It's more of a question of -when- not -if-.The purpose of life is to be. Or not to be.
I haven't thought about Changes in years. Thanks!That clip violates the anthropic principle by having non-living observers for humorous purposes.
Also, reminiscent of the Post Brothers (Changes, a serialized strip in Heavy Metal in the late '70s and early '80s) where Ron Post keeps killing Boche and the old guy who's trying to intervene in the timeline keeps switching them into new universes to try and stop him... at one point they arrive in a universe where they're all just rocks gradually falling into a sun and Ron manages to heat up a gas pocket in his crust so it bursts and he crashes into Boche and kills him again.
Fractals.I always thought of that bit as being a little too binary. Like, why not both? To be for now, and then later, not to be. It's more of a question of -when- not -if-.
Life is just an expanding set of imperfectly replicating patterns that struggle with and against each other and their environment.
Patterns within patterns within patterns.
Oh look! A cloud!We have spent a lot more time not being (13.9 billion years) rather than being (100 years each, for mathematical convenience), so perhaps our being is indistinguishable from not being. But then, our collective being is pretty substantial (8 billion humans X 100 years = 800 billion human years), so...
What?
Check out bugtownmall.com, Howarth's got a bunch of new books (Mostly Kief Llama) free for download for people to read during the pandemic.I haven't thought about Changes in years. Thanks!
Which brilliantly addresses the whole nature of seeking out authority figures and the idea that any of us can really know anything at all.The Lama looks puzzled for a moment, then, troubled, says, "It isn't?"