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Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by TMWNN on Thursday March 28, 2024 @10:53PM (#39860114)
> It must be terrifying if you're a galactic entity and have experience, awareness, and consciousness, but no autonomy w.r.t. movement, trapped in a trillion-year path that you cannot escape.

Surely such an entity would not see itself being trapped at all, any more than a tree does. It is what it is.

On the contrary, it probably pities humans, asteroids, comets, moons, planets, and everything and anything else that is smaller, younger, with a shorter lifespan, or less energetic.

Re:Is the Sun Conscious? [pdf] by elevaet on Thursday March 28, 2024 @11:36PM (#39860424)
That analogy really cracked me up since we have no idea what it's like to be a tree either.