• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    But that’s essentially how things work. A bubble in algea fluked a plant cell inside, attached to a root which could sway under it’s own impulses… Enough time and it knew to avoid the summer heat, or pull tight when fish were eating near by.

    You’d have the basis for reactionary and instinctive life. At some point the muck of cells accidentally happens chance into new variants until you get us.

    We spend most of our time fearfully looking for problems and idealistically planning better ways to the futures we want. We’re no different from the original muck avoiding harsh sun and predators.

    The sense of our own planning, experience, or internal consciousness was a fluke, an accidental necessity for greater chances of survival, reproduction and furthering our accidental experimentations.

    The successful breed more, the failed die off. Random chance determines your outcome. It’s not intelligent. It’s how it works. It works with chaos and time. We’ve been here a long time and are only just getting going.