/sci/ - Science & Math

>>11390197
There's a distinction between "life" vs. "us" you stupid retard. "Life" has survived for billions of years. The vast majority of specific instances of life on the other hand have not, both in the sense of individual organisms and in the sense of different species. 99.9% extinction rate for all species that have existed so far, so the odds aren't as good as you think.
Also dinosaurs were around for 165,000,000 years while we're only up to 200,000 or so. There's no reason to feel like we're particularly well protected from disaster. I'm not even getting into whether or not the climate change thing is something you should be seriously invested in because you're fucking up these fundamentals before that discussion even begins.

>>11353612
You definitely don't need to have any sort of capacity for visual imagination to function. I got by fine all the way through to university before getting into psychedelics and gaining the ability to think visually. Before then all my thinking was either verbal or else non-conscious and not anything I can speak to. One thing I had and still have trouble with though is directions. I only get around by getting used to some path I need to walk or get to through a vehicle and pretty much letting muscle memory handle for it. If someone asks me how I get there though I won't be able to tell them much about roads or directions.
In terms of memories they were semantic rather than visual before I got into psychedelics. Meaning I would remember what I could describe in words about a room I was in but wouldn't have a mental image of the room. I would take in facts about the room like if for some reason I paid attention to how the room had white walls or a desk with a cup full of pencils and pens on it then that's what my memory would be ("I was in this room with white walls that had a desk with a cup full of pencils and pens on it").
I get some enjoyment out of having more immersive and visual memories (and even ones that incorporate proprioception which I think I mostly got from ketamine in reference to back when I used to take a train and could both see the moving scenery and feel my body moving as though on that train), but it's definitely not anything that makes or breaks my ability to function as a normal person with a job who can make money, pay bills, and maintain a home.

>>11110694

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum#Vacuum_metastability_event