Captive_Mind515
King or street sweeper, dance with grim reaper!
- Jul 18, 2023
- 471
What if we're alone in the universe, because everyone else deliberately went extinct?
Maybe they all came to the same conclusion, that this sentience thing is a dead end… goes nowhere, causes lots of unnecessary suffering and is just overall a pretty futile endeavour…
Maybe we're the only life form left in the neighbourhood, because we're the last ones to figure it out?
I never hear any scientists or intellectuals even suggest this as a possibility. I guess it's a very pessimistic outlook. But it would seem to me that we should at least entertain the possibility of it.
Some people say, well most of the planets don't have the conditions to sustain life. This is true, but some of them seem to be very close to having favourable conditions.
And also, it's possible that if another intelligent civilisation did decide on deliberate planned extinction, they might also intentionally destroy their planet to make it permanently uninhabitable in the future. Like a type of scorched earth policy, so no sentient feeling creatures would ever emerge on the planet again.
Just a thought / theory… I know I'm not producing any evidence to back this idea up. It's really just a random brain
fart… 
… but I find it an interesting (if a bit bleak/fatalistic) idea to contemplate…
Maybe they all came to the same conclusion, that this sentience thing is a dead end… goes nowhere, causes lots of unnecessary suffering and is just overall a pretty futile endeavour…
Maybe we're the only life form left in the neighbourhood, because we're the last ones to figure it out?
I never hear any scientists or intellectuals even suggest this as a possibility. I guess it's a very pessimistic outlook. But it would seem to me that we should at least entertain the possibility of it.
Some people say, well most of the planets don't have the conditions to sustain life. This is true, but some of them seem to be very close to having favourable conditions.
And also, it's possible that if another intelligent civilisation did decide on deliberate planned extinction, they might also intentionally destroy their planet to make it permanently uninhabitable in the future. Like a type of scorched earth policy, so no sentient feeling creatures would ever emerge on the planet again.
Just a thought / theory… I know I'm not producing any evidence to back this idea up. It's really just a random brain
fart… … but I find it an interesting (if a bit bleak/fatalistic) idea to contemplate…
