Editing Configurations (section)

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:Technology isn't ever new. It's just configurations of stuff that's been around for billions of years.
:Did you know that in gabon scientists discovered the remains of a "natural" nuclear reactor.
:It's really not surprising. You just need some uranium deposits that get surrounded by water and bam! Controlled fission.
:It gets weird if you apply this generally. Like.. A photograph is just the right chemicals on a more or less flat surface. In principle, there could be a selfie of a tyrannosaurus somewhere, waiting for us to find it.
:Sagan said, "if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." but, actually, the "you" is unnecessary.
:Human life, culture, civilization. It's just a sequence of technically permitted, but ever more unlikely physical configurations.
:So everything is meaningless?
:No, there's a clear meaning for human life, and it runs throughout history - to find weirder and weirder configurations.
:And use them to explore the heavens and plumb the planck-scale.
:Mostly it's for food and tv, but yeah, that too.
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