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Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning by drjesusphd on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @04:39PM (#12082130)
Not necessarily. We still have no evidence that consciousness exists off of Earth. The scariest solution to the Fermi paradox is that we are in fact alone, or at least first.

One can even stop just short of solipism and consider the possibility that humans are the only consciousness in the universe.

Granted, this is just a possibility, perhaps a very small one. But we know so little about such things.

My point is that you may have far more of an effect on Consciousness than you think.

Re:A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @04:52PM (#12082192)
> We still have no evidence that consciousness exists off of Earth.

We still have no objective definition of consciousness that would let us determine what it is that would be evidence that consciousness exists, on or off of Earth.