“Life” and “death” are just how we perceive energy changing forms. ✨
I think we might be talking about different things but I’d love to understand what your meaning is. Care to elaborate a bit?
Humans have not yet mastered complexity but we’re getting there. We mostly fiddle with complication.
I define it as such:
A pocket watch is complicated. It has many moving parts that interact to produce something appearing as life. It can be taken apart, studied, labeled, and put back together.
A bird is complex. You can take it apart, but something fundamental breaks when you do that and it’s not so easy to put back together.
Order and chaos are just levels of magnification. We live in a fractal universe.
Imagine x and y as a collapsed representation of 3-dimensional space.
Now imagine the time axis as a series of snapshots.
You eat a blueberry. The blueberry’s matter is dis-integrated from its familiar shape and re-integrated into yours.
Some time later you expire. The matter that makes up you is dispersed in some fashion (you are cremated, decompose, maybe are eaten, etc). Your familiar shape falls prey to entropy, just as the blueberry did.
Imagine this happening to everything everywhere.
We are all collections of strands woven together into the fabric of spacetime.
We are one.
Some of you have never properly scrutinized your childhood indoctrination to magic thinking and it shows.
Another thing humans have a tough time with is orders of magnitude and probability. “A million monkeys at a million typewriters for a million years” etc.
Probably radiation interacting with organic matter causing mutations to occur.
Complexity is not easy for humans to grasp. We look at most things through the lens of complication, rather than complexity and it confuses us.
I don’t follow; mind elaborating?
I think about this a lot 
Thank you for the clarification. I think we still disagree at a fundamental level but I have no issue with politely disagreeing on how the universe works. I don’t think we will convince one another, so we’ll just leave it at “different strokes for different folks”.
Excellent choice. Loved the story, even more appreciated the afterword/bibliography.
And I bet there are a thousand opinions between yours and mine. Catch my drift yet?
This might take awhile but I think it’ll be worth it. Ready to shed this npub and migrate to something with a little more POW nostr:note1nc2un3rpv0sdhc8phmy9cc353tn5nr7hu638d3ukukjmv6tmcygsuyx8y3
Blinding oneself in order to ease discomfort ends up becoming a disability, not a strength.
Embrace discomfort and the many shades and colors that make up this thing we call “existence”.
Leave the 1’s and 0’s to the machines.
So you subscribe equally to all religions? Otherwise I think I’m missing your meaning and wouldn’t mind a clarification.
Love the smell of Rana cookin’ up a new npub
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
- Stephen Roberts
Without contrast there is no bliss because bliss is defined by its contrast from non-bliss
