Let’s imagine that in our galaxy of 400 billion suns there’s just us that thinks, right? I mean there’s microbes are all over the place, but in terms of things that think and can feel and in a very real sense, bring meaning to the universe…

The beauty of these galaxies, they’re not beautiful if there’s nothing there to perceive them. They’re just galaxies..

So if that’s it in this galaxy, then the decisions we make now as a civilization have galactic implications. If we destroy ourselves, for example, deliberately or through inaction, it’s possible we eliminate meaning perhaps forever in a galaxy of 400 billion stars. We have a tremendous responsibility, in a sense, not to do that.