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Report, edit, etc...Posted by Lithium on 2006-12-08 at 10:27:25
To be a part of your body for a few days. Then die.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by deathman101 on 2006-12-08 at 18:07:34
I think this should be in serious discussion
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yenku on 2006-12-08 at 20:00:21
Single celled organisms still split and spread thier DNA. Besides, humans are multi-celled organisms.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by green_meklar on 2006-12-08 at 20:09:41
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I don't see any sources on this, where did you hear this from?

Read.
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Einstein was smarter than most people in terms of mathematics, I don't think he could have dominated in many other fields (although he is relevant to the meaning of life because he was an intelligent person overall). Einstein is dead anyways, so he can't be smarter than anyone anymore.

Is it just me, or are you starting to contradict yourself? If I recall correctly, before your statement was that smarter people automatically thought up better solutions or the same solutions faster than dumber people, without any such conditions attached.
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Also, fifty-one years and thousands of years are a significant difference.

I have some news for you. There are six billion people now and 2000 years ago there were only about 150 million. There are just plain lots more people around to make philosophical discoveries, and plus they have everything that's come before them to build off of.
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Biology and chemistry aren't really relevant to the meaning of life.

True. It would seem that sentience is independent of the physics on which it runs.
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What about single-celled life?

That uses DNA too.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yenku on 2006-12-08 at 23:33:19
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the meaning of life... is... formed up in a equation. But not of equation of numbers but words.
Life + Mind - Die = There is no meaning to life.
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Kinda reminds me of this...
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Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
Spoken by a character on the Shakespeare play The Tempest
Especially the part about life rounded by sleep, meaning what happens in life, doesn't really matter because before and after we are non-existent for eternity. Kinda disturbing when you think like that, but once you accept it, life becomes much easier.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by PwnPirate on 2006-12-09 at 15:56:49
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Is it just me, or are you starting to contradict yourself? If I recall correctly, before your statement was that smarter people automatically thought up better solutions or the same solutions faster than dumber people, without any such conditions attached.

Of course you can't be smarter than everyone at everything. You can be smarter in subjects, but I never said that makes you universally smarter than everyone. Picasso was smarter than Rommel in terms of artistic insight. Rommel was smarter than
Picasso in terms of war tactics. Rommel and Picasso were smarter than each other in different subjects. The subject I was talking about was mathematics, and if a man calculated faster than Einstein then he would be smarter than Einstein. This isn't just a single bar that goes up and down, it has many focuses.
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I have some news for you. There are six billion people now and 2000 years ago there were only about 150 million. There are just plain lots more people around to make philosophical discoveries, and plus they have everything that's come before them to build off of.

Good point, but like I said, I admit Einstein wasn't a great example in the first place.
Report, edit, etc...Posted by Yenku on 2006-12-09 at 16:10:39
Duh, Einstein was a total dummy. ;P
When he was younger he though nuclear fission would never be possible.
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