• TheFriar@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    I mean…I wouldn’t be depressed if I were a bacterium.

    Bacterium life 🦠

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      9 months ago

      Yeah, like, even as fungi best case you connect a vast rainforest and provide communication and transportation services (also for sharing forest memes) … only to be keenly aware at all moments of how pollution, deforestation, and climate change is damaging the forest in real time. Yeah, no.

      Even if I were an undead virus (a virus that is dead-ish, not a virus causing undead humans to pollute the planet even after death) I wouldn’t know how to (re)arrange my genome to target some apes.

      Bacterium is peak lifeform, just settle into a literal rock, sleep a few billion years.

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          9 months ago

          Well, same for humans, there is no way we are this stupid. Just a bunch of natural algorithms and instincts.

          (Also you saying that bacteria are “conscious”? What does that even mean? We all make active decisions all the time.)