06-06-2022, 08:26 PM
Interesting thought experiment. I don’t believe there is life outside earth, and if there is life which ever form it would take, it seems unlikely there would be an interest in planet earth or its inhabitants. I think the late Carl Sagan gave an eloquent description of planet earth in his book Pale Blue Dot, an excerpt.
“…Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.”
Movies entertain and play with our imagination, but rarely do they educate us about reality. I cannot think of any outside a good documentary.
We evolved from one celled organisms as far back as 4 billion years ago.
What has been helpful for me in gaining a proper perspective of the human being was to read Yuval Noah Harari’s book - Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind, where he writes of the evolution of humans occurring around 2.5 million years ago.
With the notion of evolution it seems to me only logical that what should follow is that we humans are not special but rather unique with our reasoning abilities and development of consciousness without the need for a god to have created us along with the universe.
“…Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.”
Movies entertain and play with our imagination, but rarely do they educate us about reality. I cannot think of any outside a good documentary.
We evolved from one celled organisms as far back as 4 billion years ago.
What has been helpful for me in gaining a proper perspective of the human being was to read Yuval Noah Harari’s book - Sapiens - A Brief History of Humankind, where he writes of the evolution of humans occurring around 2.5 million years ago.
With the notion of evolution it seems to me only logical that what should follow is that we humans are not special but rather unique with our reasoning abilities and development of consciousness without the need for a god to have created us along with the universe.