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Let’s imagine that in our galaxy, with 400 billion suns, there’s just us that thinks. Right? I mean, theres microbes 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, all these things we’ve talked about, the beauty of these galaxies, they’re not beautiful if there’s nothing there to perceive them, right? They’re just galaxies. So if that’s it in this galaxy, then the decisions that we make now as a civilization have galactic implications, right? If we destroy ourselves, for example, deliberately or through inaction, then it’s possible that we eliminate meaning, perhaps forever, in a galaxy of 400 billion stars. We have a tremendous responsibility, in a sense, not to do that.
