Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Philosophy Wire: Common life. Uncommon death.

A new analysis of the oldest known fossil microorganisms provides strong evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in the universe is common. [1] This is something which is becoming more and more evident as our understanding of the universe increases. In time, we will know that life is nothing special. That what we celebrated as the culmination of our very existence is nothing to be celebrated. Soon we will discover that death is the key to the meaning of existence. And that this existence has nothing to do with Being itself…

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