> fascinating information
...you don't find it uncomfortable or distressing to be confronted with the dry facts and hard-limits of the 1.5Kg squishy-pink prison we're all trapped-inside and all condemned to die inside?
...you don't find it uncomfortable or distressing to be confronted with the dry facts and hard-limits of the 1.5Kg squishy-pink prison we're all trapped-inside and all condemned to die inside?
-- Aftermaths by Lois McMaster Bujold
There's some interesting regenerative medicine avenues (Michael Levin's stuff, planarian worms don't die from old age) that I have some hope might eventually slightly reduce the 'condemned to die' side of the picture for humans also.
The Theory of Bounded Rationality emerged as a reaction to growing awareness within the chimp troupe, of the numerous limitations of that chimp brain. Its a useful tool when coping with complex ever changing reality.
That's leaving aside the other 99.99999999% of the universe where it chokes on vacuum or is blasted by radiation.
And even in a perfect habitat with an ideal genotype and phenotype, its functional lifetime is a mere century bookended by billions of years of nonexistence.
So yeah.
I try not to think about all that.
You are off by so many orders of magnitude.
Well, you have heard it: Ignorance is bliss. That's how the masses survive.