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xiphiasSo, late at night when the Midnight Creepiness was keeping me awake in my bed, as it sometimes does, I started thinking about "Intelligent Design".
Now, as most of you are aware, one of the really strong arguments against the idea that some "intelligence" of some sort set out to "design" people is that, well, people are really stupidly designed.
But then it struck me.
What if we're not the point? What if the reason that we can choke, have blind spots, have crappy knees and so forth, is that we're SUPPOSED to be disposable? What if the whole purpose of humanity is to break up the surface of the world, and then cause global warming to cause great, warm, shallow seas to cover large swaths of the world, so that the creature that the "Intelligent Designer" ACTUALLY designed can take over?
You know, the one with eyes WITHOUT blind spots, because they're outgrowths of the skin, instead of the optic nerve? The one that can't choke, because it has gills? Has no joint problems because it has no joints?
Now, the only reason why octopuses HAVEN'T developed actual sapience, I think, is because of their 1) darn short lifespans and 2) dying after breeding. But if an octopus developed that actually stayed ALIVE after breeding, and then actually RAISED its offspring, well, THAT would be a creature an intelligent Intelligent Designer could be proud of designing.
And what if that's actually what is going to happen? What if that Intelligent Designer, an octopod creature, is sleeping RIGHT NOW under the sea, influencing the dreams of mankind to help us destroy ourselves and create the world for Its children?
Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fthagan!
Now, as most of you are aware, one of the really strong arguments against the idea that some "intelligence" of some sort set out to "design" people is that, well, people are really stupidly designed.
But then it struck me.
What if we're not the point? What if the reason that we can choke, have blind spots, have crappy knees and so forth, is that we're SUPPOSED to be disposable? What if the whole purpose of humanity is to break up the surface of the world, and then cause global warming to cause great, warm, shallow seas to cover large swaths of the world, so that the creature that the "Intelligent Designer" ACTUALLY designed can take over?
You know, the one with eyes WITHOUT blind spots, because they're outgrowths of the skin, instead of the optic nerve? The one that can't choke, because it has gills? Has no joint problems because it has no joints?
Now, the only reason why octopuses HAVEN'T developed actual sapience, I think, is because of their 1) darn short lifespans and 2) dying after breeding. But if an octopus developed that actually stayed ALIVE after breeding, and then actually RAISED its offspring, well, THAT would be a creature an intelligent Intelligent Designer could be proud of designing.
And what if that's actually what is going to happen? What if that Intelligent Designer, an octopod creature, is sleeping RIGHT NOW under the sea, influencing the dreams of mankind to help us destroy ourselves and create the world for Its children?
Ia, Ia, Cthulhu fthagan!
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Date: 2005-09-08 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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