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[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 4 points 5 months ago

What if life's evolutionary end point is always sentience?

Then life is even more pointless and cruel than it appears.

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 2 points 5 months ago

That would be poetically fitting for an universe determined to die a heat death.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 3 points 5 months ago

It’s OK. Consciousness is but a brief anomaly in the vast sea of time.

[-] Wizzard@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

Speak for yourself. I try not to think.

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I'm still rooting for Idealism or the immortal soul to somehow be a thing.

Go Banana!

[-] SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago
[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Action potential doesn't do thinking. Thinking happens at neuron junctions and that shits chemical and analogue. The electrical part just moves the data to the next synapse. There are some gap junctions but those aren't really associated with thinking.

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