Comment on Cool Bug Fact #47
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But you’re not annihilated in a material sense. You’re rendered agentless - incapable of expression or engagement - as the machinery of your form fails you.
You’re not gone, anymore than a spoon full of sugar dissolved in a glass of water. You are decomposed. Overwhelmed at last by all the other organisms trying to devour you. Then reincorporated into the next generation of stuff.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
I am more then just my atoms.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Water: 35 liters, carbon: 20 kilograms, ammonia: 4 liters, lime: 1.5 kilograms, phosphorus: 800 grams, salt: 250 grams, saltpeter: 100 grams, sulfur: 80 grams, fluorine: 7.5 grams, iron: 5 grams, silicon: 3 grams, and trace amounts of fifteen other elements… That’s the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child’s allowance. Humans are pretty cheaply made."
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Sure, and Micro$oft and Linux are exactly the same because they run on the same hardware.