Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought

Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought by mrkstu on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @09:57AM (#18239015)

Because if we're the only one's actually capable of appreciating the beauty of the universe, if we are in actuality the only mindful expression of the universe, we are more incomparably valuable than any other element existing as part of that universe, and an irretrievable loss once gone.

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Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought by thfuran on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:02AM (#18239067)

Why is perceiving beauty so valuable? It does exactly nothing except for the one perceiving.

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Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought by TuringTest on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:18AM (#18239276)

That's why it's valuable. To us.

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Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought by Atlantium on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @12:16PM (#18240524)

When this species becomes capable of observing our feelings objectively and not simply saying "I feel it, it's mine so it must be truth" people like you are going to feel something very different.

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Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought by TuringTest on Thursday October 18, 2018 @10:08AM (#18248419)

Truth != value. Of course my feelings are valuable to me; I don't need them to be true (and I don't even think being true or false _applies_ to judgement values).

"I once heard a wise man say that if anyone were to know the whole answer, he would cease to exist."

https://books.google.es/books?id=KuFwDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT181&ots=...

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Re:Our Solar System Is Even Stranger Than We Thought by otippat on Wednesday October 17, 2018 @10:58AM (#18239688)

An irretrievable loss to whom?

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