Paul Conti

We can think of outlying cases, but just think in general concepts.

Destruction destroys.

It brings us towards a state of entropy, towards a state of nothingness, whereas goodness, commonality, collaboration, nurturing, brings...

It brings new existence into the universe.

And I think we don't think about that.

We're in the middle of something so vast and built on top of so many layers.

And I think it leads us to be cavalier with human life, including often our own.

Right, right.

It's so fantastically improbable that I think we should be very respectful of it.

And I think you said there's a creative force that values creativity, right?

Well, sure, it's a creative force, right?

Its existence, its ability to exist and to create comes from something other than entropy, right?

Something other than so much dispersion that there's nothingness, right?

So the creative force will value...

sanctity of things, right?

Keeping things together, not destroying things, right?

Building novelty, including novelty of knowledge, novelty of sentience.

I mean, it fits with the idea that we're not nothing, that that's incredibly improbable, and that there are these many, many layers of emergence that we're standing upon.

And I think it tells us something that we're not...

doing ourselves a service to ignore, right?