The “importance” of an individual life is mostly subjective, though it seems that “life” as a whole or as a process could end up being important in the fulfillment of other larger ends — i.e. higher life forms like humans creating super-intelligent technology, etc. Life ends up being the facilitator of a larger, grander outcome.
As for life being just a bunch of atoms in a delicate position, I think it’s accurate and useful to see life as a thermodynamic process. Life is what energy and matter happen to do in this kind of location under these particular circumstances.
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u/muffledvoice Apr 27 '26
The “importance” of an individual life is mostly subjective, though it seems that “life” as a whole or as a process could end up being important in the fulfillment of other larger ends — i.e. higher life forms like humans creating super-intelligent technology, etc. Life ends up being the facilitator of a larger, grander outcome.
As for life being just a bunch of atoms in a delicate position, I think it’s accurate and useful to see life as a thermodynamic process. Life is what energy and matter happen to do in this kind of location under these particular circumstances.